I have been doing a ton of reminiscing about high school recently. Mostly because I have my (I don't even want to say this part) 15 year reunion coming up this summer.
My favorite classes were my chorus classes. I took women's choir and the regular choir classes in high school. I totally admit I was a choir nerd. I did show choir with lots and lots of jazz hands. And ridiculous choreography. I watched musicals like they were going out of style. Sister Act was my favorite movie, and I loved Sister Act 2 although watching these movies now kind of make me wonder what on earth I was thinking.
Every year our school performed in the Disney World Carol & Candlelight Processional, which was a huge honor and I got to sing by James Earl Jones one year - he was literally 2 feet away from me. And we performed in County and State competitions. Not to brag or anything, but our music program rocked. We had an amazingly tough director who knew how to make us work. To this day, some of the tricks that he taught us to help save our voices stick with me - I always have lemon juice handy and if I know I'm going to do some karaoke, I stay away from milk (or milk based alcoholic beverages). I wasn't a soloist - as I have horrible stage fright, but I had a strong voice that had a wide range. I sang second alto most of the time but one year, the co-music teacher had us doing vocal exercises and she realized that I could hit some serious high notes, so she moved me to first soprano for a portion of the year. However, I wasn't the diva that most of the first sopranos were so I begged to be moved back to my love alto section. (And I mean that diva comment with much love for my soprano singing friends.)
My favorite memories from school come from that choir room, and from the events we did as a group. My best friends sang with me. And unlike many school choir programs, our choir had some totally hot boys! I was really proud to be involved in our music program. I wish I still had something like that today.
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