WHiTE SMOKE!

This is something I did earlier today
when the news of the result of the conclave came on Radio-Canada,
I switched immediately to NPR and after a few minutes of waiting,
they started their live coverage from Vatican
with Sylvia Poggioli(who else?) reporting.
I sent the following to my friend in Italy as I listened to the radio

Radio Experiment 0110 Tokyo Time

Vatican-Washington-Tokyo-Mantova

A questo momento sto ascoltando la radio di NPR in
diretta,
dopo aver sentito, pochi minuti fa,
che un nuovo Papa sono stato eletto.
Immagino che la gente sta seguendo le notizie in
Italia.
Molto eccitante!! Chi sarà il Papa!!

Aspettando ancora per l'annuncio che deve venire fatto
fra poco...,
Sto molto eccitato....Un momento senza fiato....

The curtain is fluttering..., but nobody has shown up
yet....

The crowd is watching, the anticipation is
building...,
Who's it going to be?

0129 Here comes Sylvia Poggioli, the correspondent,
most respected of National Public Radio in Rome, but
no news of who it is yet...,

The suspence is still building....(come on!)

I gotta tape this....

It's already 40 minutes since the bell rang...,

Latin, it's gonna be in Latin, the announcement?
Wait, I hear some music playing in the back...Nah.
Why the wait? It's killing me....What's going on?

Wait! the curtain has been just opened....
Here somes three Cardinals....
The Chilean Cardinal starts to announce....
It's in several languages....
Annunzio(Latin)....We have a Pope!

Eminentissimum....Josephum....Ratzinger!

The name is....the Benedict the 16th!?

Here comes....the Benedict the 16th,
(Sylvia describing his attire)

"Cari fratelli e sorelle," "Dopo il Grande Papa,
Giovanni Paulo II...,"
(I get this in Italian)
Translation....

The crowd is chanting something like "Benedetto" like
a soccer crowd,
while the new Pope is waiting....

He says something in Latin. Invocation....

Amen....

The new pope, Benedict 16th is retreating behind the
curtain...
The bells are ringing again,
blessing the new pope and the crowd and everyone.

0200 Tokyo Time
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen,
We have a new pope.

This has been a little radio experiment
April 19th(20th), 2005