The Adventures of the Choristers

Di Fernando Guerrieri

Dieci avventure da vivere insieme ai bambini coristi del Coro Voci Bianche Colli Fiorentini. Questi bambini con il loro entusiasmo e spirito di fratellanza, hanno trovato nuovi amici nel coro ed insieme hanno vissuto delle avventure dove solo con il coraggio accompagnato dalla fedeltà e supporto dell'amicizia riusciranno a trovare la soluzione ai vari misteri.

Avventure che forse rispecchiano in qualche modo una vostra avventura.

Ten adventures to live with the choir children of the Coro Voci Bianche Colli Fiorentini. These children with their enthusiasm and spirit of brotherhood, have found new friends in the choir and together they have lived some adventures where only with courage accompanied by loyalty and support of friendship they will be able to find the solutions to the various mysteries.

Adventures that perhaps reflect in some way one of your own adventure.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Youcanprint
• Data di uscita: 12 set 2018
• ISBN: 9788827846636

Anteprima del libro

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CORO VOCI BIANCHE

COLLI FIORENTINI

THE ADVENTURES

OF THE CHORISTERS

The Mystery of the Monkey Sauce

It all began one day during a trip of the choir for a Christmas concert. You must know that the choir is made up of children between the ages of 6 and 16, they have a uniform with the logo of the choir consisting of a scarf, a cloak, a sweater, a polo shirt, also without the choir logo they wear blue jeans and a pair of white or black shoes worn without socks. Often the choir performs concerts in different places, having fun discovering new places and living nice experiences in company.

However, during this particular trip the choristers stayed at a villa, whose owner was a rather strange lady. A little strange? Or maybe a little cunning? Well! Below you’ll find out what happened.

The choristers arrive with their luggage along an avenue among pine trees and enter a nineteenth century villa, they put their luggage in their rooms then they all meet in the living room.

Among them there is a male chorister named Davide, a curious child full of desire to discover things.

While the choristers are in the living room talking to each other, Davide, sees a door with a sign prohibiting access. Davide being a curious boy, opens the door and enters to see what is so important to prohibit entry. He walks along a corridor, finds another closed door, he opens it and continues to walk towards unknown mystery.

Meanwhile, near the villa, a man with a cowboy hat rides a black tricycle with a green box in front between the two front wheels.

At a certain point he stops, gets down from the tricycle, stretches his arms and bends backwards form the effort. The man gets back on the tricycle and continues pedaling. He arrives to a villa, descends from the saddle commenting:

Seller -I can no longer pedal this tricycle from the fatigue that I’m doing.

Seller bending the knees - Ohi ohi my knees.

He opens the box on the tricycle and looks inside.

Seller - Oh my, how many can are still left, I don’t know what to do with all this sauce, I just can't see it anymore.

Then he looks at the villa nearby where he stopped.

Seller - Let’s hope there’s somebody here.

The seller is a street vendor and has some sauce to sell, he wants to try to sell it to the inhabitants of the villa. He approaches the front door.

Seller - Let me try and see if there’s somebody here, let's try to knock at the door.

Knock knock

The seller starts to knock on the door, which at a certain point opens and appears the landlady of the villa where the choristers are staying. Yes, it’s the villa where the choristers are staying during their transfer for the Christmas concert.

Landlady - Yes.

Seller - Good evening milady, I have some sauce to sell, it’s really good and cheap.

Landlady - Listen, I do my own sauce.

Seller - But look, it’s really cheap and you can do many good things with it, and it costs very little.

Landlady - Yes! but how little?

Seller - Let me in and we’ll talk about it.

Landlady - Listen, is it really so cheap?

Seller - Listen if you let me in we can talk about it, I'll be able to convince you.

Landlady - Okay come with me.

The landlady let’s the seller enter and accompanies him to her office.

Meanwhile, the chorister Davide walking along the corridor arrives at a small window that looks into the office and sees the landlady with the seller

For fear of being discovered, Davide decides to stop and listen to the dialogue between woman and man.

In the office the seller tries to convince the landlady to buy all the sauce so that he gets rid of it permanently.

Landlady - But is it good?

Seller - Of course, this is monkey sauce.

The Landlady hearing that it’s monkey sauce is amazed and remains with her mouth open not knowing what to say.

Seller - It’s good like meat sauce, but nobody will know the difference.

Davide who is listening outside the window with a disgusted expression comments,

Davide - What monkey sauce to us! How disgusting, I have to tell the others.

Meanwhile, the dialogue continues in the office.

Seller - Look it’s very cheap, it's good and nobody will notice the difference, and then it hasn’t killed anyone yet, until now, and you will get huge savings.

Landlady - Mah. I don’t know.

Seller - Look, I only have these few cans left and if you take them all I give you a small, but small discount.

Landlady - All right, give me all of them, but I want a bigger discount.

Seller - Miss, you pull my neck like that, but with your beauty how can I refuse.

Landlady - Oh come on, don’t flatter me too much.

The landlady thinks back to the seller's flattering words.

Landlady - But he’s not all that wrong.

Davide outside the window is stunned by what he heard.

Davide - Sure, the man to talk like that must be a rascal, but a great rascal. How disgusting the monkey sauce, who knows what it’s like?

Davide goes away to reach the other choristers to tell them what he has heard.

The landlady, bewitched by the beautiful flattering words of the seller, bought all the cans of the monkey sauce, and the seller rejoices because he managed to get rid of the sauce that nobody wanted.

Meanwhile in the living room the other choristers are comfortably seated on the sofas talking.

Davide retraces back the entire corridor, goes through the door with the sign of the ban, arrives in the living room and with dismay announces:

Davide - Guys I have to tell you something important.

Choristers - What?

Davide - I heard a conversation between the landlady of this villa and a seller, they talked about monkey sauce, they want to give it to us at dinner tonight, how disgusting.

The choristers look at each other with an expression of disgust.

Choristers – Agghhhh.

The choir kids perplexed by the news, start to comment and ask questions.

Filippo - But there is no monkey sauce.

Samanta - But you are sure?

Angela - But why should they give us the monkey sauce?

Davide - Because the man who was selling it said that it would cost her very little, can you imagine, to save money they want to give us some crap, agghhh.

Elena - Can you imagine, give us some crap to save money, can this be true?

The rehearsal hour arrives, where the choristers have to practice the Christmas songs for the concert with the choir director, Silvia.

Around the piano the choristers practice their songs, at a certain point Chiara addresses Angela,

Chiara - Angi, ask Silvia if she knows something about the monkey sauce.

Angela - No, do it yourself.

Chiara - No, you.

Angela - You.

Chiara - Youuu.

Angela - Mmmmmm.

Angela turns to the director Silvia and asks,

Angela - Silvia?

Silvia - Yes?

Angela - Does monkey sauce exist?

Silvia - What sauce?!?

Angela - Monkey sauce.

Silvia - Never heard of anything like that, but are you sure? What are you saying?

The choristers intrigued, start asking a series of questions.

Sara - What does it look like?

Samanta - What does it taste like?

Diletta - What smell does it have?

Samanta and Angela - Does it stink?

Silvia - What are you saying?

Angela - How do you cook it?

Samanta - How much times does it take?

Silvia, perplexed and at the same time amused by having learned of the existence of the monkey sauce, comments,

Silvia - What are you saying?

Silvia - But who told you this thing?

Sara - Davide heard that for dinner there will be monkey sauce.

Silvia incredulous of the fact,

Silvia - Nooo, you misunderstood. Let’s continue practicing.

The choristers start to practice their singing again. Maybe Davide had really misunderstood.

That evening at dinner the choristers are all seated around a long table. After the trip and the choir practice they are very hungry.

The cook enters with a large pot of hot pasta.

Cook - Here you are, I made a special meat sauce for you.

The cook lifts the lid and with a large spoon starts to turn the pasta that gives off a good and appetizing fragrance.

Cook - Ok, it’s time to eat.

Choristers - Ammm… yummy.

Cook - Children pass the dishes so that I can serve you.

The cook begins to serve a nice spoonful of pasta with meat sauce to all. As they are about to start eating Diletta has a terrible thought.

Diletta - A special sauce for us!?!

Angela who is sitting next to Diletta looks at her and has the same thought, perplexed she comments.

Angela - Oh O.

Maybe it's just a thought, maybe there's nothing true. Diletta and Angela start eating. As soon as the first forkful of pasta is brought to their mouth, they turn around and look at each other, an atrocious doubt crosses their mind: if it was really a special sauce for them but made with monkey sauce? The thought is too intense and they cannot throw down the mouthful, the doubt that it is really a monkey sauce becomes stronger and stronger, and they would like to spit the mouthful.

They put the fork down and they bring their hand in front of their mouth to hold the mouthful trying not to spit it out on the table.They jump up and run away from the table. The other choristers who have seen the reaction of Diletta and Angela remain petrified and also to them the thought of the monkey sauce rises. After a moment they look at each other and push away the plates.

Choristers - Uuugghhhh

They all get up together and run away from the table reaching Diletta and Angela who went to the bathroom to get rid of the mouthful and rinse their mouths.

The cook enters and finds the table empty without the children but with all the plates full of pasta that no one has eaten.

Cook - Bah? How come? Didn’t they like it? Mah, I want to taste it.

The cook takes a clean plate and serves herself a spoonful of pasta, sits at the table and starts eating.

Cook - But it's really good, really, I do not understand them, it’s really good

The choristers after having reached Diletta and Angela, who got rid of their mouthful, go to their rooms ready to go to bed without eating for fear that in the pasta there was the monkey sauce. Once in the bedroom they take off their scarf, cloak and shoes and sit on the bed to talk about what happened.

Chiara - We have to find out if they gave us the monkey sauce.

Celeste - Yes. Let's go to the kitchen and check it out.

Samanta - We have to look in the trash if there are empty cans.

Elena - But if they see us?

Samanta - But who going to see us, and even if we’re about to get caught we will hide somewhere.

Camilla - Nobody will find us because we will go there at