… or at least it usually does! Last night was my first time back to choir practice at South Hills in over a month. I went in anxious to see the faces of my friends and was not disappointed. It was wonderful to return to the community.
Over the holiday break I watched movies with my brother Luke. One of his that we watched was Dodgeball. While it’s a little bit of ‘dumb’ humor, it has its moments. My favorite character was by far the Pirate who would randomly reply ‘ARRRR’ to anything. When we were at DisneyWorld and the family would have a little disagreement with a lot of tension, I’d just reply by saying ‘ARRRR’ and the tension usually broke.
One of our songs last night had a sea-chanty style which made many of us want to swish our arms as we sang it. And we did, even at Rob’s (the director’s) request. At the end of our last run-through of the song, before I could even think of it, one of the basses, Paul Smith, shouted ‘ARRRR’ and the whole group busted out laughing. It was perfect.
After that we sang this Irish tune with some gorgeous melodies. I forget how it came up, but I responded to someone by saying ‘Ay, Lassie’ in an Irish brogue. All of a sudden the sopranos and altos that heard it were laughing again, I started blushing, and being the only tenor sitting in the row (Tim was off to the side), Paul thought it was funny to make fun of my red face. It was good-natured and fun. I LOVE MY CHOIR!!!
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