Goodbye – until the next time
Concert day
Saturday mornings are every year:
Rooms clear until 9:00. 10 a.m. Final presentation in the congress hall, once again show everyone what they have learned during the week. The 9 orchestras/approx. 170 participants and the lecturers and tutors said goodbye with some different pieces than on the previous evening. At 12 o’clock everything is over. We go home again. With most with a crying and a laughing eye. Because you have to say goodbye to your old and new friends, but it’s quite clear: Next year we’ll see you here again!
Because the next IMC will definitely come! 01.08.2020-08.08.2020 we will gladly take your children back to Oberwesel for a week full of music, games and fun. Thank you for your trust in us and we are looking forward to welcoming you again next year.
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If you still want to know how the carers got home:
After we had loaded everything up at the youth hostel, we started Matz’s car with starter cable. Already on the outward journey there had been problems with the starting, although the car was the week before only with the inspection and with the TüV.
Since it has become so common after the camp with all of the team who want and have time to eat a pizza, the engine had to be switched off again at the Pizaaria in Oberwesel. So after the pizza it was started again with a starter cable. Then we drove off. Antonia with me in the car to Langen. Lou with Kathi in the car to Rüsselsheim and then to Mainz. Hanna with Matze in the car to Mainz and then to Langen. About arrived in Bacharach, Kathi came back to me. Then I knew that Matz’s car was off again. The three cars (mind you all with OF-plates) met again at the market place in Oberwesel to start the car again. The convoy started again. Hanna and Matze with the panic that the car runs out at every stop.
Shortly after Bingen, the idea came up that one could swap cars in such a way that Matzes never had to drive his car alone, and especially not to Mainz. So Antonia changed to Matze, Hanna to Kathi and Lou to me. In Mainz Hanna and Kathi left us. Matze and I drove Lou to Rüsselsheim and then to Matze in Langen. Completely at the end Matze and Antonia got out of this car. Fortunately it had not gone out again. After I had delivered Antonia at home and had arrived even with my parents, it was clear: We had never needed so long for the journey home and she has never cost us so many nerves.
Meanwhile the engine can only be started again with the key.
