The Vocal Company When I first arrived in New Zealand, I knew, that I couldn't survive 6 months without singing in a choir. So after the first weeks of school, getting in to the subjects, the language and the whole school thing, I started going to the Choir – or better known as the Vocal Company. In the beginning it was quiet hard to get to know some people, because you were just there for a period, learned your songs, stayed in your voice, like sopranos and sopranos, altos with altos, boys with boys, and then left to go back to school again. That's a thing I like about the Choir, though, it is during school time ;-) After a couple of rehearsals, we started practising more times a week because we had to learn our performances.. exactly, we don't just sing with the choir, we also have to learn a dance/performance for every single dance. That was really different for me and in the beginning, I thought I could never do that – but know, I think I can say, it is not too bad ;-) Moreover, it is really good, to get in contact with the other students in the choir, you are talking and laughing, because every single practice, we have to do everything again, because we already forgot the dances again. The Choir is performing together with the orchestra or the jazz band and it is performing on prizegivings or for example on the Arts Festival this year. That was really funny. The stage was smaller than it was supposed to be, or smaller than the stage, we always practised on.. so while the performance, we were trying to find our place or to make space for all the other people, to don't push other people or fall down from the stage. I think we didn't do such a bad job on that performance and it was really a lot of fun! So in the end, I just want to say, I am happy that I went to the choir, got part of it, met a lot of really nice people, had a lot of fun and will have good memories on it. And now, I also can sing the national Anthem on English and Maori ;-) Kira Clausen
Nayland College International Student Year Book 2012 - Part One
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