church camp and the talent show
We just had our annual church camp this past weekend, and it was great! I had to tell myself to get out of the room and go hang out with people a couple of times (why is that so hard? I want to be around people!), and I had some good conversations as well as some fun playing games.
There is a song called Taylor the Latte Boy that Kristen Chenoweth performs very well. She's one of my favorite singers. The song is pretty funny, and I've wanted to sing it for other people for over a year, but I kept wimping out. We have a talent show at camp, so it was a good opportunity to give it a shot in front of people who I knew wouldn't think bad of me even if I totally bombed.
I was mildly nervous about it all week, but when they called me up I got a LOT more nervous than I thought I would. I couldn't stop my legs from shaking! I was VERY glad I wore pants instead of a skirt at that point. My voice was also a lot weaker than normal, and I ended up missing some notes (not entirely missing them... I'll go American Idol and call it "pitchy"). The character singing the song is fairly meek, so I think (from the comments afterwards) that the not-so-musically inclined didn't notice, and the musicians were too nice to say anything about it (most of them even found other nice things to say). It was good to see how I'd react when I got nervous. I'm pretty good at public speaking, and hardly get nervous, but for some reason it seems to fly by and I have trouble remembering parts of it afterwards... weird, huh? I'm a million times more nervous about singing (because I know I'm not a great singer), but that didn't happen at all while I was singing. If I hadn't been singing with the same recording I'd practiced with, I would have sworn that it was much slower than before, and I remember every second. It's neat to now know how I react in that situation. (Three words in a row that end in "ow"... that's gotta be a katmosphere record.)
I watched the video Joe took of it, and it was like I remembered. I'm not going to put it on YouTube because people are waaaaaay too mean on there, and they would have legitimate reasons to comment. I'll probably share it with family and any friends who ask about it, but that's all... no 13-year-old girls who are mad that the cheerleader snubbed them in the lunch line and are looking for videos to take it out on.
I will share another video from the talent show, though! Our friends Ross & Staci have a son named Sam who plays the drums... and he's three years old. What is even more mind-blowing to me is that he also played them last year in the show - when he was two! There are two songs... even if you get tired of watching, you should watch the very end where he rocks out.
There is a song called Taylor the Latte Boy that Kristen Chenoweth performs very well. She's one of my favorite singers. The song is pretty funny, and I've wanted to sing it for other people for over a year, but I kept wimping out. We have a talent show at camp, so it was a good opportunity to give it a shot in front of people who I knew wouldn't think bad of me even if I totally bombed.
I was mildly nervous about it all week, but when they called me up I got a LOT more nervous than I thought I would. I couldn't stop my legs from shaking! I was VERY glad I wore pants instead of a skirt at that point. My voice was also a lot weaker than normal, and I ended up missing some notes (not entirely missing them... I'll go American Idol and call it "pitchy"). The character singing the song is fairly meek, so I think (from the comments afterwards) that the not-so-musically inclined didn't notice, and the musicians were too nice to say anything about it (most of them even found other nice things to say). It was good to see how I'd react when I got nervous. I'm pretty good at public speaking, and hardly get nervous, but for some reason it seems to fly by and I have trouble remembering parts of it afterwards... weird, huh? I'm a million times more nervous about singing (because I know I'm not a great singer), but that didn't happen at all while I was singing. If I hadn't been singing with the same recording I'd practiced with, I would have sworn that it was much slower than before, and I remember every second. It's neat to now know how I react in that situation. (Three words in a row that end in "ow"... that's gotta be a katmosphere record.)
I watched the video Joe took of it, and it was like I remembered. I'm not going to put it on YouTube because people are waaaaaay too mean on there, and they would have legitimate reasons to comment. I'll probably share it with family and any friends who ask about it, but that's all... no 13-year-old girls who are mad that the cheerleader snubbed them in the lunch line and are looking for videos to take it out on.
I will share another video from the talent show, though! Our friends Ross & Staci have a son named Sam who plays the drums... and he's three years old. What is even more mind-blowing to me is that he also played them last year in the show - when he was two! There are two songs... even if you get tired of watching, you should watch the very end where he rocks out.
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