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blacknovelist · 7 years

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A handful of the various things and quotes (mostly quotes) that have happened and been said during choir and vocal jazz at my school over the past four years:

“Quit flaunting your heterosexuality"

“There’s no resting base face allowed in this classroom! Look alive, people.”

A classmate stepped on an empty timbits box during vocal jazz and stared at it in disappointment for five minutes straight, which caused me (notorious for my laughter) to, well, start laughing.

The teacher, five seconds later: “Okay. You’re fired from being a responsible senior member of choir.”

The next year: "And this is why you fired me from being a responsible member of choir.” “Wait, I did? No way.” “Yeah, it’s true. I remember that too.”

Bi-sectional: A term for someone who sings in two different sections. Not to be confused with Pan-sectional, someone who switches between almost all sections freely

The full year that mostly consisted of us yelling “TERRIBLE!” at the most minor of mistakes and “NOT TERRIBLE” when things didn’t go badly

Was replaced by “*insert name here* MADE A MISTAKE” yelled at the most minor of things at the next year

“I should be a sex-ed teacher instead”

The Tshotsholoza Incident™

that one time our teacher pointed to signal someone to sing higher but I wasn’t looking properly so I thought she was flipping us all off

“We just want you to know that we love you! …you’re the only Alto who doesn’t spend half of vocal jazz talking” *frantic nodding* “we appreciate that.”

“Oh yeah, as long as it doesn’t take us three years to actually perform the song”

“I feel like I could just fall over and sleep. The floor looks very comfortable. I’m here for just falling over and lying on the floor.” “Please don’t do that.”

“You went from a shy kid to being the only one who knows enough of the song ‘Kung-fu Fighting’ to belt it out in the middle of Vocal Jazz when we asked”

“Go Team Internally Screaming Forever!” “Yes!!” *high fives* “I feel like our team name gets longer every time” “yeah, that’s because I added the forever this time. I figured it worked.”

It’s Septober

*Sudden chicken noises*

One person: “I want to go home and sleep.” at least five other people at the same time: “Dude me too”

“Oh please, don’t pretend you’re a nice person, I’ve known you for how many years now?”

“Hey, this banana almost has the perfect curve to-” “Shove it up your ass?” “Eat it whole?” “Stab yourself in the eye?” “-be a right handed boomerang guys what the fuck”

“Clearly there’s three kinds of people in this world.”

“Dude stop poking me with a banana"

Said banana’s dramatic and incredible slam dunk into the garbage five seconds later

someone held up notes cheering us on during one of our songs in practice bc a bunch of us had solos, except when she held one up for me it straight-up said “I love you mom” and I almost couldn’t sing because I was laughing too hard

“We’re gonna learn this music… TOGETHER! We’ll all perform… TOGETHER!” “Everyone is gonna forget their part…TOGETHER!”

Everything gets done Together in vocal jazz kids

“That’s sectional assault”

*Random puberty noises*

“Did you just assume my sectionality?”

Just, replacing various words with choir and music terms in general

Soggy bottom River boys

“It’s so goddamn hot in here” “Because I’m here” “Oh, that makes sense, you are pretty unbearable”

Our teacher, to her 4-yro daughter: “Jillian keep your tongue in your mouth.”

Not a minute later: “Rachel, keep your tongue in your mouth.”

Ten minutes later: “… Michael, keep your tongue in your mouth.”

“Why do I have to tell all of the older kids to keep their tongues in their mouths too??”

“I don’t get pulled from alto to sing tenor sometimes because I’ve got the right range, it’s because I’m straight up a fuckin meme”

*Walks in* “Guys! They’ve got timbits at the corner!” “What?!” *three people run out and come back a few minutes later* “Yeah, you’re welcome.”

A friend, jokingly: “Now I’ve got the IQ of a starfish!”

Me, whispering: “Absolutely no difference.”

The Pokemon Go recruitment video

“You SAUSAGE!”

That time the senior prank before we graduated consisted of people covering our teacher’s half of a shared office in sticky notes (including the rubber boots she kept under her desk) and leaving her a “choir survival kit” (which consisted of a spring headband, guitar glasses, and a wildly inappropriate apron)

"Okay, two questions; first, can I get a ride from Boston Pizza to the church? Second, what are we strapping to Max's leg this year"?

The teacher asking a question to the students who are in both band and choir: "Is it you-ba on the tuba?"

#blacknovelist talks #long post #Choir #Music #Vocal Jazz #so i was gonna post this yesterday but I forgot so have it today instead my friends #Since I'm graduating and will no longer be witness to anymore shenanigans #:')#novel's adventures #also for some reason I can't find the same a video or recording of the Tshosholoza we sang in grade 9 and im like ???? why?#anyway #I think this is everything

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