Advent singing

The Capella Carolina traditionally sings Christmas carols on the street in the Advent season, and collects money for good causes. Considering the options I had for spending my Saturday afternoon, the chief of which were

• doing homework I'm a bit behind on,
  
• converting Prof. Schmidt's notes on covariant field equations and their quantization into Latex-legible text,
  
• or singing Christmas carols,
  

I decided the last one was by far the most attractive. So, I went to the rehearsal, sang through some seven short Christmas carols in German and English, and followed the choir to the street, feeling quite uncertain about having to sing these songs in front of random people.

It turned out to be quite okay: we sang through the whole repertoire three times, and collected some 80 euros for a school in Armenia. The audience was quite varied, as to be expected on the street: some people walked past us without noticing, some passed between choir and conductor without noticing, some stopped to listen, and some joined in and sang along as far as they knew the songs :).

After the third time of singing through everything, I felt I knew the songs quite a bit better than at the beginning, and I also felt quite cold, having stood outside for an hour and a half. Since the latter held true for most of us, we concluded the afternoon on the Weihnachtsmarkt with a cup of Glühwein.
It was a nice afternoon :).