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I still can't believe I quit softball and joined choir. It's a huge change. And people I tell find my jump from softball to choir more surprising than I find it myself. I don't find it surprising, or shocking. Just that this time last year, I would never have though of joining choir.
Anyway, due to popular (actually one person's) demand, I shall make a short (edit: wow, turned out to be quite long) post about Choir orientation, on Feb 4th, saturday. My saturdays have been packed since the beginning of the year. Ok, that sounds like a lot of saturdays. It's only 5 saturdays, but well, there are only 52 ot them in a year. (I think. Just made a rough estimate. If I'm wrong, don't need to forgive me. I don't care. It's an estimate!)
At least I didn't have to wake up that early. Supposed to be there by 9am. I set the alarm for 7. Woke up at 7, and decided to snooze a little while more, so I reset the alarm for 7.20. What I did instead (which I later found out) was to set the time, not the alarm, 20 minutes ahead. So when I got up from my extra bit of sleeping, I got a rude shock- the time read 7.40! I immediately realised what happened though, after checking the time on my hanphone. But not before cursing the lousy clock alarm a few times, and worrying about being late.
I can't really remember choir orientation already. Feeling quite sleepy writing this post. Maybe it's cos I slept too much. Yep, too much. Almost 10 hours last night, and a 2 hour nap in the afternoon. Haven't slept this much in weeks.
Hm... ok, it's coming back to me now. After everyone gathered, we split into two groups (cos there were too many of us) for a quick ice-breaker game. It didn't really break the ice, imo, but it did bring about lots of laughter (is that considered breaking the ice? hm...) The game was called "elope". We stood in a circle, holding hands, and a 'couple' was supposed to go around the circle. They had to tap a pair of hands, and that pair would have to come out of the circle and go in the other direction, racing the other 'couple' to the spot they vacated. When to two 'couples' met, sissors paper stone would decided which one got to cut through the circle. I hope my explanation makes sense. I remember I coughed a lot during this game. Dunno why. But later on my cough got better. Maybe it was the strepsils.
Another ice-breaking game followed, this time in our small groups of five to seven people. There was no name to the game. The description is fairly simple too. Just break the ice. Literally. When they brought out the blocks of ice and told us what to do, I thought it was quite lame. But stomping on ice is quite fun, haha. That ice breaker game led straight into the main orientation, which was another "amazin race" style thing, like in the school orientation, only this time the clues supplied were a lot less ingenius, imo. The games were still fun. Sort of.
For the first game we had to pass a sausage tied to raffia string through our shirts and shorts (shorts for guys only) while singing a song. Our group sang Abc. And we went out of tune. Lol. It was more of a monotone, actually. And halfway the sausage broke. Oops.
Ok, it's quite late, and there are 7 other games to describe. I'm gonna leave the rest of this post to tomorrow. Come back later.
hyperxi's life @
2/05/2006 10:18:00 pm
