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Sep. 14th, 2003 11:12 pmI'm back from the UCCE retreat. It was an absolutely fantastic weekend, if not nearly long enough; yesterday (Saturday) was incredibly hot, so the ice-cold water was great for running in, and today was really foggy, so that it didn't matter that we had no time to go down to the beach. Last night ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leech and I walked along the beach with some other people and watched as it got foggier and foggier. Today was so foggy that, driving back, the tops of the posts on the Golden Gate Bridge were invisible.
The talent show was very amusing, as we were required to do skits in our groups, each group being given a set of characters and a context. We were originally given the characters of "rock stars" and the scenario of "Moulin Rouge," but there was the slight problem that, being a madrigal group and generally not living in the 21st century, we couldn't think of almost any rock stars. So, given that we have the UCCE president in our group, we cheated and gave ourselves a different set of characters. It was: Lord of the Rings!
So we took snippets of songs from Moulin Rouge and applied them to the LotR characters. This resulted in songs such as "There was a ring; a very strange, enchanted ring..." and "One day I'll sail away..." (sung by Arwen). I played Aragorn toleech's Arwen, and I sang:
Arwen, you don't have to sail to the far shore.
These days are over; you don't have to be immortal anymore.
When Gandalf died, we all sang:
The quest must go on
The quest must go on
Inside our hearts are achin'
Gandalf may be taken
But our quest still goes on
words to both those by yours truly.leech wrote words to the other songs we did... except for "Come What May," which was sung by Frodo and Sam with no change at all in the words. Yes. Gay hobbits on special delivery by Perfect Fifth. And I got to have manly stubble. But still not king.
leech and I walked along the beach with some other people and watched as it got foggier and foggier. Today was so foggy that, driving back, the tops of the posts on the Golden Gate Bridge were invisible.The talent show was very amusing, as we were required to do skits in our groups, each group being given a set of characters and a context. We were originally given the characters of "rock stars" and the scenario of "Moulin Rouge," but there was the slight problem that, being a madrigal group and generally not living in the 21st century, we couldn't think of almost any rock stars. So, given that we have the UCCE president in our group, we cheated and gave ourselves a different set of characters. It was: Lord of the Rings!
So we took snippets of songs from Moulin Rouge and applied them to the LotR characters. This resulted in songs such as "There was a ring; a very strange, enchanted ring..." and "One day I'll sail away..." (sung by Arwen). I played Aragorn to
leech's Arwen, and I sang:These days are over; you don't have to be immortal anymore.
When Gandalf died, we all sang:
The quest must go on
Inside our hearts are achin'
Gandalf may be taken
But our quest still goes on
words to both those by yours truly.
leech wrote words to the other songs we did... except for "Come What May," which was sung by Frodo and Sam with no change at all in the words. Yes. Gay hobbits on special delivery by Perfect Fifth. And I got to have manly stubble. But still not king.
