Dramarama
Oye. Not in the spanish sense... more like the yiddish sense of frusteration and stress. choir tour was amazing ... i'm entirely convinced i shall live in New York City for a matter of months sometime before I die. But there's so much homework in retrospect. Yes, I was a good little student and asked for the homework ahead of time and did all I could, but there wasn't really a spare moment any time (minus the bus, and I slept) to complete it. So I really shouldn't be updating my journal but I am anyways.
I've mostly been sleeping since I got back. Tour was so busy. We toured NYC on Saturday by Coach and went around Central Park, Fifth Avenue shops, and Ground Zero. Having seen images of ground zero especially on TV all the time, ti was awkward and very sobering to see it in real life. It was basically just a fence around the area, with posters describing the towers, and lots of dirt, tunnels, and construction inside. It's hard to believe something so overwhelming was once there, or that it was destroyed in a matter of hours one fateful morning.
On Sunday we went to the Brooklyn Tabernacle for church (amazing) and then to South Side Seaport to sing Les Miserables. My solo went well, althogh the accoustics were weird, seeing as we were outside and it was chiilllllae. Next, it was a 2.5 hour bus ride to Little Egg Harbor (or as Jenna called it, Egg Nogg City) to sing at a church.
Monday was the busiest day ... ever. Us choir=ins had to wake up at 4:45 to get ready to be on the CBS early show ... turns out we got there an hour early and had to wait in some deli a few blocks off. The weather was so bad that they cut our spot from 2 minutes to about 45 seconds, but hey, national TV is national TV, and it's one of those experiences to say "Why yes, yes I was on TV." Then there was actually time to SHOP so many of us wandered around Chinatown and Soho looking for fake Louis Vatton purses ... it was kinda funny - when we asked the little Chineese women about some designer purse, they'd take us into a secret back room and be all sneaky. I felt like I was cool. :) After the sojourn in Chinatown it was all about singing at St. John the Divine (the largest cathedral in the world) then to Times Square to Planet Hollywood and the Marques to see "Thoroughly Modern Millie" which was hilarious. So much fun. And that was my last choir tour of high shcool.
There's lots of drama, too. I wish some people would stop being such poop heads.
Anyway. This was just for Mer's especial benefit, so enjoy mer, more to come.
I've mostly been sleeping since I got back. Tour was so busy. We toured NYC on Saturday by Coach and went around Central Park, Fifth Avenue shops, and Ground Zero. Having seen images of ground zero especially on TV all the time, ti was awkward and very sobering to see it in real life. It was basically just a fence around the area, with posters describing the towers, and lots of dirt, tunnels, and construction inside. It's hard to believe something so overwhelming was once there, or that it was destroyed in a matter of hours one fateful morning.
On Sunday we went to the Brooklyn Tabernacle for church (amazing) and then to South Side Seaport to sing Les Miserables. My solo went well, althogh the accoustics were weird, seeing as we were outside and it was chiilllllae. Next, it was a 2.5 hour bus ride to Little Egg Harbor (or as Jenna called it, Egg Nogg City) to sing at a church.
Monday was the busiest day ... ever. Us choir=ins had to wake up at 4:45 to get ready to be on the CBS early show ... turns out we got there an hour early and had to wait in some deli a few blocks off. The weather was so bad that they cut our spot from 2 minutes to about 45 seconds, but hey, national TV is national TV, and it's one of those experiences to say "Why yes, yes I was on TV." Then there was actually time to SHOP so many of us wandered around Chinatown and Soho looking for fake Louis Vatton purses ... it was kinda funny - when we asked the little Chineese women about some designer purse, they'd take us into a secret back room and be all sneaky. I felt like I was cool. :) After the sojourn in Chinatown it was all about singing at St. John the Divine (the largest cathedral in the world) then to Times Square to Planet Hollywood and the Marques to see "Thoroughly Modern Millie" which was hilarious. So much fun. And that was my last choir tour of high shcool.
There's lots of drama, too. I wish some people would stop being such poop heads.
Anyway. This was just for Mer's especial benefit, so enjoy mer, more to come.