I have gone on many trips so I don't know which one would be considered my "dream journey". A trip that I went on that had significance to me was my 16-day tour in Europe. Along with 200 other musicians from across the state, I spent the last week of June 2012 at UofL for a week to practice music for 5 days straight, all we did was eat, practice and sleep, but that is not the fun part. After that we got to depart for a 16-day, 7-country tour across Europe. We went to England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein and we played in 5 of the countries. The band got to play in the middle of parks, in gazebos, and in town-squares for these huge crowds of people! The part that really amazed me was that even though a significant amount of the audiences didn't speak English, we (as a band) were able to entertain and connect with every group. To see the women start dancing during one of our polkas or to see the audience give us a standing ovation shouting compliments at us in other languages I didn't understand, was a truly remarkable feeling but it truly shows the effect music has on all human beings.
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