Tuesday, September 29th 2009 – Budapest: Rehearsal, Visit to Hungarian Parliament, The Great Concert!

8.00 a.m. Wake up and breakfast

9,45 a.m. Departure and arrival to the baroque hall

10,00 a.m. Concert rehearsal

1,00 p.m. Lunch at the canteen

3,30 p.m. Visit to Hungarian Parliament

5,30 p.m. Back home and preparation for the Concert

6,30 p.m. Meeting at the Baroque Hall

7,30 p.m. Concert

9,00 p.m. Dinner at home

10,30 p.m. Bedtime

Dear Diary,

The great day’s arrived! Today we’ll have the Concert.

In the morning we met in the baroque hall, where the Hungarians, before the rehearsal with the instruments, sang the Italian and Hungarian national anthems. Then we sat down and ...”sol, la, si”.. we had our rehearsal. At about 12,30 we left for the canteen. There we had lunch with mashed potatoes and cutlet.

Then we all went to the underground, the oldest in Europe, after London’s underground.

Here we are at the enormous and stately Parliament. It’s marvellous, both inside and outside. We passed through the security controls and the metal detector like at the airport. When we came in our guide showed us many things, but we were impressed by the Chamber of Deputies.

Once out of the Parliament, we came home by underground, just for one hour, to prepare for the concert. We met at the baroque hall, where the Hungarian started their concert. They played and sang very short but pleasant pieces!

And, here we are! We are seized by excitement, we had to start our concert. But in the end everything went off well. Our families served us dinner and then it was time for bed!

It was a busy but beautiful day!

Simone Marcolungo, Massimo Alberti, Chiara Biasi, Vittoria Ceriani.

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