Sing It: 'Tis No Matter How It Be In Tune, So It Make Noise Enough

Tonight, like every night in drama, was an experience of a lifetime.

At the start of the night, I wasn't into the whole thing. I was thinking about all the other stuff I had to do. I don't remember when I started really participating. It was somewhere around the time when we began to make noise.

I wasn't really able to do the moaning part, when we first 'discovered' sound. A bad case of laryngitis and a case of tonsilitus have damaged me forever (I am also unable to actually scream now). When we started the vibrations part was cool. I found it interesting that when I raised my chest off the ground I could REALLY feel the vibrations throughout my entire body.

When we began to get louder, I was excited and I was pushing it. I even counted beats, to see how long I could go, although I will admit it distracted me a lot. Everyone was making an "awww" kind of sound. I chose the more meditative "oommm" sound. It reminded me of World Religions class because we are studying Hinduism. I found it a way to praise my own God. When Raymon told us to stop, it felt wrong to stop.

When we started singing, I first picked the song "There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of it Yet" by Panic! At the Disco, but it was hard to hum and even harder to sing. So I picked a song from Seussical (yeah, it was a REALLU good musical ok? I think about it a lot (plus a company in Saskatoon is doing it and I am excited to audition)) It's called "It's Possible". I couldn't remember the whole song, but the part I sang went like this:

This might be a river like I've read of in books,

connected to one of those underground brooks.

An underground river that starts here and flows,

right under the bathtub and then; WHO KNOWS?

It's possible, anything's possible

This might be a river now mightn't it be,

connecting this underground pool, with the sea!

Then maybe some fish might be swimming, swimming toward me

I really like to sing and I loved this part. But I payed a lot of attention on how I sounded. I tried so hard to sound good, I cared so much. I didn't want to sing offkey and have someone call me on it. I would have died.

When the whole group was raising their aww sounds to the roof, I felt like I was in a temple with a bunch of monks or something. It was intense and that's what the singing part was like when we all sang that one song. It was cool though. I felt that the drunk part sort of ruined the mood, but we explored different variants of the song.

When Raymon said "Our voices are a gift" I was dumbstruck. I mean, you know when you get this "AHA" moment after someone says something so simple, but it really hits home? that was this moment for me. My voice is a gift, and although I think I sound awful when I sing (even though others don't think so) my voice is a gift, and I should use it.