Gone forever?

The seniors are leaving and I feel like I will lose some of them forever. Who knows when the I'll see them next after graduation. This past year they have really grown to be good friends and some are even closer than that. I have been so greatful to be in the varsity show choir this year because I have bonded with all of them. There are not many juniors left, well girls at least. None are even very close to me, or ones that I want to be close to. Speech, the musical, and show choir have really opened my friend world up to different people outside of the stupid little clicks at our school that are still going on. They are ridiculous, and I love having friends from every circle anyways. Diverse people give you different look and view points on life. You never know who could change and impact your world.

Many of the seniors I know I just will not see this summer, just because I have never really seen them outside of a school event. There are some though that I am sure I will hang out with a lot over the summer. Especially the show choir seniors, which there are so many of them that we are losing, I will definitly keep in touch with. The bond of relationship, whether friendly or annoying, in show choir is so incredibly deep. You are with those people every week for most of the year. You have not only show choir practice but then class and just regular choirs with them.

Today is their last day and then soon we will be seniors. I can not imagine yet that we only have one more year left and then we are off to our own life and away from this highschool. I do not even see myself sitting on the senior bench every day next year, or being the oldest class in the school. It will be crazy to finally get this last year over with. But doing it without this years seniors is going to be really weird. I do not know what friends I will be with next year. I feel like all the genuinely amazing people skipped over our class and are above and below us. I know I will definitly be friends with a lot of the soon to be juniors next year. Seniors are leaving though and I will miss them and wish them the best of luck in figuring out their future ahead of them.

Coming Up...

In a couple of days, our show choir will be having another competition. My weekend is going to be really full with things to do and I just hope I can accomplish all of the homework I need to finish. I am excited for all the events I have to do, but also I want everything to go smoothly and exceptionally.

Tonight I have the speech concert, where I perform my musical theatre part for friends and family. Right after school though, I have a tennis meeting to go to until who knows when. Then since speech is going to get in the way of show choir practice tonight it has been moved earlier now to 4:30. So somehow I will have to get home to change for that and then go to practice until 5:15 where I then have to go have one more last practice with my musical theatre group. Then at 6:30 all of us will meet that are performing tonight and soon after we will do the performance. I am just hoping that it will get done early so I can get my homework finished for the night.

Friday is not so busy I guess, since I can not really do anything because my hair has to be put in sponge curlers early that night for show choir. At 5:30 on Saturday morning all the speech people are meeting at school to get on a bus to drive to our competition site. This is why I have to have my hair done so early, so I can take them out early in the morning. My musical theatre group performs at 10 and from there we are supposed to carpool over to Davenport where our show choir will be performing around 3. I probably won’t get back until really late that night.

I really hope that my entire schedule works out alright. Especially I hope competing for the speech competition and then quick trying to get over to the Davenport show choir competition will be fine. If it does not work out this year then we won’t be allowed to be in speech next year, and I have been really enjoying it so far. As I said earlier, speech has really been a new area I found that I want to keep pursuing and I do not want a confliction with show choir to stop that.

Overall, I am very excited to show what I can in every performance that I will be doing. I think every moment should be very fun and enjoyable. I want everything to be a great performance so we can do well. I think the busy schedule will feel worth it if that happens and I won't mind doing what homework I can during my only free times.

Avenue Q!

Alongside show choir I've been involved in the speech team. The past years have not been quite as interesting, but this year we got a new theatre director. The whole program has been turned around, and our director has devoted a lot of his time to it.

I was not even interested in trying out for the speech team, but one of my good friends convinced me since they needed some girls. I tried out and I was really hoping for a singing part, since that is what I enjoy doing out of all the options on the team. I ended up getting a part in the Avenue Q musical theatre group. The friend that convinced me to try out said my part of Kate, was the part that a lot of the girls wanted to get. I was so excited and could not wait until practices started. The group had six of us and I knew everyone pretty well from show choir. The chemistry I have with all of them is great.

As we began learning our parts, I really tried to embrace who my character was. I also tried to get myself more familiar with the entire musical itself. I found the character named Lucy the Slut. As soon as I listened to her part, I desired to perform it! The voice range is perfect for me, and it is always fun to act a little slutty for a role. I wished so much that she was in the section of the musical that we performed. Now I can only dream of what it could be.

Practices started slow, getting everything together. Everyone clicked really well and that created a lot of talking and distractions during practice. Things still were accomplished though and I am really excited to perform it. These last rehearsals are more focused and I love being able to create and put input into the play itself, rather than just having everything told to you. Recently we had a man come in to help us on our technique of singing. Most of the people were unable to thoroughly sing because they had lost their voice to show choir the night before. I did not scream full out the night before...smart. When I sang my part, the man told me that he did not even have anything to say to me because it was great. That was probably the cherry on top to this entire experience so far. Tomorrow we have a performance to our friends and family at home that I can not wait to show everyone. Then this weekend we have a competition that I am really hoping we do well in because I would like to move on to the next level.

There are speech t-shirts that are supposed to be really cool. I can not wait to wear it in a couple days. Tight t-shirts just really make everything feel legit. This year in speech has really been a great stop and I do not want it to end.