Hello, my fellow teenagers who I think are also technically eleventh graders at this point. I have never been able to get a concrete answer on if you are still in your previous grade or in the next grade during Summer Vacation. Maybe you are in neither? Who knows. For all I know some of you failed tenth grade. If so, rest in peace. I am going to dig into Choir Camp once again in this blog. In part 1, I talked about an overview of Choir Camp, in part 2, I went into detail on one of the shortest days of Choir Camp, Sunday. In this blog, I will talk about my first full day of Choir Camp, Monday (June 24th).
We started out the day by hearing a guy yell out in the hallway telling us to get up. He then comes inside our dorm to confirm we are awake. We then get ready and meet with our team in the lobby. The first period of the day is Mixed Choir. The first day we began sightreading and learning some of the beginning parts of our Mixed Choir songs. Our mixed choir songs were Ndikhokhele Bawd, San' Bonani Namhla Kudibene, and Akekho nfana nolesu. Everyone is in Mixed Choir. My favorite songs from Mixed Choir were Ndikhokhele Bawd and Akekho nfana nolesu. Later that day we had breakout sessions, short lessons teaching you about what you signed up to learn. I took the vocal jazz breakout session. I had fun, but I do not think my voice fits vocal jazz very well lol. we had a sort of competition where people would move on to the final round, I only made it that far because I was funny. Then, we had Show Choir. Most people are in Show Choir except for a few people who are in Chamber Choir or Jazz Choir. We began learning Eye of the Tiger and I Just Can't Wait to be King. Now, if you were a Soprano or Tenor, it was basically just a melody. However, if you were an Alto or Bass, you had to learn the lame part. I'm a bass. For people who haven't had Choir, sopranos are the girls who sing high, tenors are the boys who sing high. Altos are the girls who sing low, bass are the boys who sing low. So our version of the song was different, but was not hard to learn.
I'll finish up Monday and possibly began talking about Tuesday of Choir Camp in my next blog! Have a great summer!
I'm gonna get real deep with this comment so what do you think about how we are gonna be graduating in two years and we are not gonna be seeing any of our class mates during our regular lives unless they work with us or go to college with us. Then we all have to worry about if we are going to get scholarships for our college or go into overwhelming debt if we don't. After that we have to worry about finding a job in the job market that doesn't want us. Life is going to be fun lets at least pass the accuplacer for this year and do this summer assignment.
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