Women Of Destiny

Hello!! I am posting... Pris asked me to do so I am doing it..

Actually I am posting this while waiting for a youtube video to load. I am supposed to watch videos of other choirs performing the songs that we are going to perform on Founders Day for my school. We are performing the songs "All things bright and beautiful" and "For the beauty of the Earth" composed by John Rutter. You all may have heard it before. :)

This year, since my school is celebrating its 120th anniversary, my NEW principal, who just came in this year, came up with this brillant idea of having the ceremony and celebrations at the field!! under the moon light.... doesnt it sound exciting? what a brillant plan right?? actually, NO! not to me that is.. Can u imagine, wearing a gown, that may touch the ground, and wearing heels, silver coulour that is, Stepping all over the mud for 2 days straight?? dirtying the gown that cost so much and can only be dry cleaned, the shoes that is probably going to last me till the end of my Secondary school life. Oh ya, forgot to mention choker.. haha.. ZZZ.. The weather, wearing a gown from afternoon to night, for 2 days.. There is a full dress rehearsal just the night before and the next night is the actual thing, both, lessons still continue in the morning as per normal i think..

But looking on the brighter side of things, we may be allowed to skip half a day.. haha. There was also a funfair. But that happens once every 5 years. great fun to take part in a fun fair!!

Anyway, but the songs are nice, they are acutally Christian hymns about how great and wonderful God is. But the songs are quite slow at least, for now. We are expected to learn a song within 3 weeks, competition standard. AHH!!! it is not very nice to be in the choir at this stage of learning, the conductors are getting stressed and fed up, shouting at us to get our notes right plus all the dynamics also to memorise it.. atleast this time the song is in english, last time we were to learn a philippino song within 2 weeks for a concert. not a good idea. MORE SHOUTING AND SCREAMING!! conductor even walked out, teachers cried, lots of prep talk. The feeling of all this is not nice!!*shakes head* however, once you start winning competiontions or doing well in concerts, there is this sense of achievement in you and also seeing how happy the conductors and teachers are.. It starts to get fun.. but the truth is, it is actually a cycle,to do well in all of these things. u need to work really hard. But it really pays off after a while.. practices get cancelled, not more tension for a while.. it is quite enjoyable..

the truth is, i am enjoying choir, the friends, the teachers, even the sondustoars though some may seem overly fierce. it is a whole new experirence a new event comes up. So, give ur CCA a chance, do not hate it.. I used to hate being in choir, but now, it is more like a routine, like every mondays and fridays, staying back after school ends at 2.15 to go for choir until the evening like 6 plus. sometimes also on thursdays for extra sectionals.. :)

ok, this is quite a random post but.. here it is Pris. apologies ppl..

bel