Balade Blanche

The Balade Blanche is a night of performance, the students of the Abbey tell the history of the Abbey through various skits staged throughout the night. This week we started preparing for the Balade. First we signed up for parts... There are several scenes and some of them have such intricate costumes that it will be the only scene you are in. Other people will be playing multiple characters... The are two narrators throughout the evening. One will be reading in French the other in English. Here's the catch, the French will be read by an American and the English by a French person... So, of course up for a challenge I volunteered to read French... Good thing I'm taking French, eh?

We also started making the costumes... The basic premise is everything is white, and recycled. So plastic wrap, bubble wrap, white cloth, tea bags, if it is white we can use it... I spent the afternoon making a costume, not sure who will be wearing it, but I hope whoever it is likes it.

You just never know what the weekend will bring in Pontlevoy... And it is hard to believe we have been here for a month already... Next weekend we are heading to Paris, and then our 2 week vision quest, then we only have 5 weeks left! My how time flies...