Thursday it is!

Yesterday, another long day...no time to write. So sorry.

So, Wednesday began with our first late morning, we had breakfast at 10:15am :)

Then off we went to the Eugene O'Neill Theater..I ran around the stage (literally) while Melissa warmed up on the piano. I warmed up with stretches and situps and a few lip trills...trying to give my poor voice a break!

We then left for the city of San Ramon de Alajuela for our last master class, this time we only worked with one singer. here name was Mari. She was only 20 years old, but very talented, also have Tico and half Japanese.

After the class, we were escorted to the dance studio where they had set up hot tea and biscuits for us, tre lovely. We changed and got ready for our concert.

Lovely lovely space, we performed in an art gallery. We also met lots of other singers of all ages and nationalities.

THURSDAY

This morning began with a cross-cultural talk with about 20 students who all wanted to know what our food was like in the USA and where we went to school etc... About 30 minutes into the talk some of them started pulling out their cell phones and texting...typical teenagers. Melissa and I made them laugh and then left for our final rehearsal before tonights concert.

Tonight was AMAZING>>>what an experience. We sang the full recital in the National Theater (opera house). We were part of a program called "Afternoon recitals at 5pm". It is a new series they are trying out and WE were the first of the season. Very well attended and a very attentive audience. I am learning that a solo voice recital with piano is unusual for costa rica, however, they seemed to like it.

We are SOOOOooo dead tired. Tomorrow we have the day off until the final recital at night. We are excited and anxious to get to Saturday. (Saturday we are going to see a Volcano and many other things).

Will write more tomorrow and post more pictures!

Ciao for now!