Day 11

Hello everyone, after about 24 hours of traveling, THE Baylor Jazz Ensemble is back in Texas!  What an incredible journey we have all been on!   

We got to Chicago early this morning, got through customs and then made it to the gate for DFW with enough time to get some breakfast.  Then we boarded the plane and made it to DFW, and unlike previous trips, we made it back with all of our luggage, instruments and cymbals!

As we all started to leave, many hugs were exchanged and we went our separate ways.  This was a surprisingly tough thing to do, for me at least.  But, once a Baylor Jazzer, always a Baylor Jazzer!  

So, I have put together the best way I know how to wrap up this adventure that we have all been on these last 11 days, I have put together a bunch of memories for the band.  There are many inside jokes in this, but ask the folks that were on the trip what these mean, and I promise you, it will be well worth it to do so.  We absolutely had a blast.  So here goes:


Do you know Bruno Mars

 

How many bottles of water can they offer us a day?

 

Go through and get your water first and put it in the basket…light blue top

 

Herbert

 

Do you want to play volleyball

 

This is an entree and a dessert meal

 

These sandwiches are huge and “dense”

 

This is another pay by the weight buffet

 

That’s so Josh

 

Matt…”I have this really fun game…..you think of the first letter of a famous person’s last name……”

 

Make a chain…

 

Parker’s counting us again

 

Dr. K “Ok folks…”

 

Fresh coconut milk

 

Pineapple with mint

 

Orange Juice

 

Limon

 

Guarana

 

Guarana Zero

 

The best waiter in all of Brazil…Dr. K

 

Walking through the crowds on Saturday night

 

Taylor Swift at 1:30 in the morning

 

Airport tornado warnings

 

Torque heads!

 

Paige’s fan club

 

Anders’ Portuguese rendition of Girl from Ipanema

 

Feijoada

 

Cheese bread balls

 

Selina or Americano?

 

Sunset in the park

 

Roadies who took care of everything for us

 

The chocolate balls at the church…Brigadeiro

 

Pastor Manu and Gislene

 

“Torque, Torque, Torque….”

 

Obrigado or “breegado”

 

That Pizza!!!!

 

Trying one of everything from the buffet

 

Dancing Sunlight, where the sunlight took out our ipads

 

Dr. K solos

 

Dr. Taylor solos

 

The Conductor of Conductors

 

Dr. K translating

 

Dr. K interacting with the students, the waiters, the guys on the street trying to get us to come into their bars, with everyone!

 

Hawaiian shirts

 

Evening wrap ups of our day  (Gather, Gather, Gather...)

 

“You’ll be hungry after the concert…you need a sandwich and some juice!”

 

Walking through the streets of Sao Paulo

 

Motorcycle guy…”Ah…Americanos!”

 

Bom Dia!......“Bon Gia”

 

Road work at 1 am……

 

“But that thrown up food is not potluckable….”

 

Sugarcane water!

 

All of the people…

 

Over or Under…..

 

A double-decker bus!

 

“What is it?  Fog city?”

 

The chance to get to know these amazing people at the church and at the institute.

 

Missing them already.

 

Sharing this experience with really some of the best people I’ve ever known

 

Marcelo (Dr. K) and Ed (Dr. T) I can’t even come close to thanking you enough for what you mean to me, our students and the jazz program.

 

Dr. K set up all of this in Brazil.  THANK YOU!

 

And to these folks that I will always have these experiences and memories with, I can’t thank you enough for being a part of it.  I will forever be moved and changed by each and every one of you: Dr. K., Dr. T., Mrs. Dr. K., Chris, Brady, Anders, Jacob, Paige, Grant, Matt, Austin, Max, Camden, Joel, Johniel, Jacob, Matt, Eloy, Tanner, Jack, Maggie, Isaiah, Walker. 

Getting to know 23 other amazing people.  

This was hopefully a trip and people you will never forget (I never will.  All of you and all of these experiences.  I love you all and thank you!!!!)

We made a difference, and we were all changed in the process.

Sleep well, Baylor Jazz.  To the ones coming back next year, get working on your Jazz audition music!  To the others, keep in touch, always.

 

 

Obregado to all for following us.

Obregado Baylor Missions.

Sic'em Jazz

and 

 Tchau  (Chow)


 


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