Music Camp Concert

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Tony in the middle of the recorder class in which he "helped".

(Check Tony's blog to see what happened when he played two at once.)

Joanne and Iulia, the Musical Games teacher for whom Joanne was an aide on Monday and

Tuesday. She's a kindergarten teacher and I learned how to speak quietly to the students. (Yes, that's a picture of P Diddy behind us.) I helped with the Orff percussion instruments on Wednesday and Thursday.

Karen helping Ovi, the teacher of the guitar class.

A real long shot of the Catholic church with the students lined up just in front of the altar, and the orchestra set up in front of them.

The MCI teachers and staff (and volunteer aides) at the restaurant.


R-L: Karen, Joanne, Tony and Connie Fortunato, the director of MCI.

Music Camp International (MCI) is now officially over and I can't believe I'm kind of sad. We were sitting in the staff room and they were speaking in Romanian but they were all laughing, and Karen and I commented that we just enjoyed being with such a fun-loving and loving group. Our dinner was really nice at the restaurant around the corner from Betania. Tony sat next to Floare and her husband (she's her "Sunshine" and he's "Tony Baloney"). Karen and I sat next to Connie, and it was wonderful to hear how God has worked in her life to develop MCI. Look up www.musiccampinternational.org for more information. I now know that God did indeed want Karen and I to be helping at MCI this week in this city: 1st) to help a ministry where Connie is letting God's light shine in very dark corners, and, 2) this year Connie didn't do teacher training, so she didn't have enough people to help. She usually has 20 people waiting in line to fill 10 spots. What an opportunity for us!

I'm posting some pictures taken by/for all three of us to show you a little of who we worked with and what we did. In truth, it's getting late and I can't figure out how to manipulate the pictures and why my pictures are so dark, so this is what you're gettin now.

Here's a short video of Tony in the concert, improvising in the song "This Little Light of Mine."