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Okies, gonna post through the e-mail cause I just cannot be bothered to go to the actual LJ page to update (although I will to check out if it posted or not). I performed in choir tonight... It was good, but it felt like Ceredigion County Choir, not the Three Counties Choir. It didn't help that the dude who does Ceredigion Choir decided to take the Three Counties course. He's better as a conductor than a teacher. Islwyn would have made sure that the Altos knew their parts of 'Were you There' before they performed, Emyr Wynne just said that we wouldn't have copies. Sure he said in the letter we would only have copies for the Gloria piece, but no-one reads those letters! I didn't (as obviously displayed by the fact I missed the bus... I got a lift from Branwen, which was cool! She's a good driver!) but I did try and learn everything. It just wasn't possible.
Another thing! Emyr Wynne never warmed up our voices, it would be straight into singing. With Islwyn he would spend the morning session (before our coffee break) just warming up our voices, so then after coffee we would sound good! Throughout this course we were flat because we weren't being warmed up!
(My god I want new feet, these ones are just aching so bad!)
And to make matters worse, Emyr Wynne actually told us that he wasn't a warm ups person. What!!! You might be a crap singer, but we wanna make ourselves better, and warm ups help!! Twat.
So I was hanging out with Bran and Ffion (girls from school, Ffion was Head Girl, Bran was the driver), so I talked with Gwenann J, Lowri (although I hate singing next to her cause she has a nice voice - although pop-esque - and I feel kinda 'Urk' around her), Lisa, a load of random people whose names I didn't catch, and this really pretty girl (although a tad bitchy) called Danielle. She got one of the choir's 5 hottest guys - the one I fancied from Last Year! Remember Josh (the one I stood by last Three Counties Choir and the dude who sang craply in December to Bohemian Rhapsody)? Him. The gorg one. Today though, I found out (from Danielle herself) that he has a girlfriend, and that he cheated on his girlfriend by going with Danielle. Bastard. Anyways, there was a really nice guy called William. Aww he was lovely! A tenor, and tall, and always wore nice clothes... And Endaf! :: Drools :: Yum!! :D But William was nicer, and had a nice strong grip when he shook your hand.
Anyways, by then end of the week, I was hanging out with Ruth, Elin and Twm. So funny! :D Twm's gay, so I could chat with him and Elin about the fit guys (although Elin wasn't really interested)... Oh today, Endaf had supposedly got out of the shower wearing a SMALL towel around his waist. Oh to be in the boys dorm (and to be thinner, cause guys go after happy confident girls, not the ones that blush at the mere sight of the one they fancy!).
Anyways. There were solo parts up for grabs. I went for one too (although it was a soprano who got it, cause it was a soprano solo, and I'm an alto, but I can get to top E - when I'm warmed up I can go higher!) but the one I wanted was not really a solo, but singing in a small chorus in the Gloria bit. I actually asked when the auditions for that was, and he was like 'Oh I'll be sorting that out later.' So I was like, 'Oh, Ok' thinking he'd actually ask if anyone wanted to do it. What he did was asked for all the memebers of the National Youth Choir of Wales to put their hands up, and he made them sing it. They're good already, and confident with their "talent", why not try some one else? But no, Emyr Wynne left it too late (like everything else!) so it had to be them. I had even told him that I wanted to try for it! Fucking bastard! At least Islwyn cared!
Don't get me wrong though, I enjoyed the course, just little things like that really got under my skin. This sort of elitism cause they did something for the Urdd, or Llangollen, or whatever. Who the hell cares!? What about the little people, who don't know how to join things like that, or the ones who don't have 'exactly what we want' but still have fantastic voices? What about the ones who aren't Cozette from Les Misreables in the Urdd's welsh version? Just because we have lives that don't always revolve around singing doesn't mean we should be left out.
I'm ranting. I'm sorry, it fucking pissed me off!
Had a nice Harry Potter chat with Branwen! :D We made predictions and exchanged thoughts and stuff (Danielle was with Josh). So cool! :D And I explained what fic was to her! :D So yeah, happy me! :D She's a Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione shipper, so she was kinda freaked out by my Draco/Ginny love. Meh. And she read the first bit of 'Old Wounds' (the first Spirit Walk book). So, she read Trek. :) I think she was confused though, so I doubt she'll read anymore if she was offered the chance.
Oh my god, one of the songs we sang was so fucking J/C it was unbelievable! I almost cried when I realised it. It's called 'Didn't We' and it's a bittersweet love song about how close a couple were to getting together but never really making it, and that was so totally canon J/C. And 'Hen Ferchetan' was randomly J/C too... I could see Janeway dancing reels to it. :)
I've decided that I'm going to give my parents a list of what I want for my b-day. I've found two of my items (both Kate related! :D Obviously...) The script of 'Tea at Five' is for sale, so I wants! And I've found a copy of 'Lovespell'... It's region 1, but I think the computer will play region 1, and I've unlocked my DVD player to play region 1. She says, crossing her fingers! :D
I couldn't wear my Tea shirt on the course! It was too hot for a black t-shirt with a nigh neckline (ie, actually around the neck, not plunging). It was so hot that I actually burned the first afternoon I was there... My boobs have burns lines (I don't tan!). So after a while, I had to cover up, so I was all icky, and in immense pain cause of my girly problem, and it was too hot and ugh... Never again.
Although, saying that, next year we might be going to Thalin in Estonia (is that city spelt right?), because Camarthenshire counsil want money and connections to Europe, so we're the 'laurel and hardy handshake' as it were.
Gonna go sleep in a min (need fic first!) Got a new matteress (no idea how it's spelt!) so I wanna test it out. :D
Rach xxx
Another thing! Emyr Wynne never warmed up our voices, it would be straight into singing. With Islwyn he would spend the morning session (before our coffee break) just warming up our voices, so then after coffee we would sound good! Throughout this course we were flat because we weren't being warmed up!
(My god I want new feet, these ones are just aching so bad!)
And to make matters worse, Emyr Wynne actually told us that he wasn't a warm ups person. What!!! You might be a crap singer, but we wanna make ourselves better, and warm ups help!! Twat.
So I was hanging out with Bran and Ffion (girls from school, Ffion was Head Girl, Bran was the driver), so I talked with Gwenann J, Lowri (although I hate singing next to her cause she has a nice voice - although pop-esque - and I feel kinda 'Urk' around her), Lisa, a load of random people whose names I didn't catch, and this really pretty girl (although a tad bitchy) called Danielle. She got one of the choir's 5 hottest guys - the one I fancied from Last Year! Remember Josh (the one I stood by last Three Counties Choir and the dude who sang craply in December to Bohemian Rhapsody)? Him. The gorg one. Today though, I found out (from Danielle herself) that he has a girlfriend, and that he cheated on his girlfriend by going with Danielle. Bastard. Anyways, there was a really nice guy called William. Aww he was lovely! A tenor, and tall, and always wore nice clothes... And Endaf! :: Drools :: Yum!! :D But William was nicer, and had a nice strong grip when he shook your hand.
Anyways, by then end of the week, I was hanging out with Ruth, Elin and Twm. So funny! :D Twm's gay, so I could chat with him and Elin about the fit guys (although Elin wasn't really interested)... Oh today, Endaf had supposedly got out of the shower wearing a SMALL towel around his waist. Oh to be in the boys dorm (and to be thinner, cause guys go after happy confident girls, not the ones that blush at the mere sight of the one they fancy!).
Anyways. There were solo parts up for grabs. I went for one too (although it was a soprano who got it, cause it was a soprano solo, and I'm an alto, but I can get to top E - when I'm warmed up I can go higher!) but the one I wanted was not really a solo, but singing in a small chorus in the Gloria bit. I actually asked when the auditions for that was, and he was like 'Oh I'll be sorting that out later.' So I was like, 'Oh, Ok' thinking he'd actually ask if anyone wanted to do it. What he did was asked for all the memebers of the National Youth Choir of Wales to put their hands up, and he made them sing it. They're good already, and confident with their "talent", why not try some one else? But no, Emyr Wynne left it too late (like everything else!) so it had to be them. I had even told him that I wanted to try for it! Fucking bastard! At least Islwyn cared!
Don't get me wrong though, I enjoyed the course, just little things like that really got under my skin. This sort of elitism cause they did something for the Urdd, or Llangollen, or whatever. Who the hell cares!? What about the little people, who don't know how to join things like that, or the ones who don't have 'exactly what we want' but still have fantastic voices? What about the ones who aren't Cozette from Les Misreables in the Urdd's welsh version? Just because we have lives that don't always revolve around singing doesn't mean we should be left out.
I'm ranting. I'm sorry, it fucking pissed me off!
Had a nice Harry Potter chat with Branwen! :D We made predictions and exchanged thoughts and stuff (Danielle was with Josh). So cool! :D And I explained what fic was to her! :D So yeah, happy me! :D She's a Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione shipper, so she was kinda freaked out by my Draco/Ginny love. Meh. And she read the first bit of 'Old Wounds' (the first Spirit Walk book). So, she read Trek. :) I think she was confused though, so I doubt she'll read anymore if she was offered the chance.
Oh my god, one of the songs we sang was so fucking J/C it was unbelievable! I almost cried when I realised it. It's called 'Didn't We' and it's a bittersweet love song about how close a couple were to getting together but never really making it, and that was so totally canon J/C. And 'Hen Ferchetan' was randomly J/C too... I could see Janeway dancing reels to it. :)
I've decided that I'm going to give my parents a list of what I want for my b-day. I've found two of my items (both Kate related! :D Obviously...) The script of 'Tea at Five' is for sale, so I wants! And I've found a copy of 'Lovespell'... It's region 1, but I think the computer will play region 1, and I've unlocked my DVD player to play region 1. She says, crossing her fingers! :D
I couldn't wear my Tea shirt on the course! It was too hot for a black t-shirt with a nigh neckline (ie, actually around the neck, not plunging). It was so hot that I actually burned the first afternoon I was there... My boobs have burns lines (I don't tan!). So after a while, I had to cover up, so I was all icky, and in immense pain cause of my girly problem, and it was too hot and ugh... Never again.
Although, saying that, next year we might be going to Thalin in Estonia (is that city spelt right?), because Camarthenshire counsil want money and connections to Europe, so we're the 'laurel and hardy handshake' as it were.
Gonna go sleep in a min (need fic first!) Got a new matteress (no idea how it's spelt!) so I wanna test it out. :D
Rach xxx