Roof of the Fribourg Cathedral

Photo of Fribourg from google (see the St-Nicholas Cathedral to the left)

 After I finished my classes today, I climbed to the roof of the Fribourg Cathedral with a friend from school! There are 360 stairs, so we thought we might require sleeping bags and emergency provisions, but we did not even finish two rounds of "lundi matin, l'empereur, sa femme" before we were blinking in the raindrops at the top the the cathedral! It was really quite something to see the scenery I knew so well from daydreaming in class now from the eyes of stone saints. When we had finished our touristic mission and found all the buildings we knew in town, we benefited from the privacy of the skies to sing silly songs and dance around in the rain. I sang "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins, and then taught Julie "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" as well as part of the famous "Dick Van Dyke and penguins" dance. The rain-polished, stone crown of the Cathedral turned into our own, private ballroom as we shared classical ballet steps and coordinated circle duets around the center piece. When we got back, we realized that our ballroom had not been so private after all! From the school courtyard that had seemed so very far away, you could easily see everything that happened on the roof of the cathedral. Oops! I sure hope the other students were paying attention in class!

Pointing out my school, College St-Michel