Yesterday I went to a practice of one of the (many) church choirs. I was invited by the orthopaedic technician at the centre a while ago but had not been able to take up the invite until yesterday.
I was told that it would start at 4pm, thinking I would go a little late to adhere to ‘African time’ so at 4.30 I walked past the church and heard a choir singing, great I thought, they do start on time (or possibly a little late) – only to meet Eric, and another gentleman in the choir walking down the road. Apparently they don’t start until 4.30pm and even then we had to wait for the other choir to finish their rehearsal and people drifted in until about 5pm.
They were practising a couple of songs to sing during the service on Sunday. One was their ‘getting up song’. On person starts singing, then the rest of the choir joins in and at a designated point in the song, they all stand up!
They also rehearsed their main song. There were long and at times heated discussions about which actions they should do a different points in the song. The last chorus seemed to create the most problems!
The songs and discussions were all in Kinyarwanda (of course) and they don’t have song books, so I watched and listened, although by the end I had picked up some of the chorus of one song, as they sang it so many times.
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