ありえない!! ARIENAI!! UNBELIEVABLE!!
The most unbelievable thing happened to me today...it's still sinking in...
This afternoon I accepted a seemingly innocent invitation by the music teacher to attend her music class with the first-graders. When the lesson ended, I was made to stay to join Matsumura-sensei for her vocal training session. Simple ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah (in an increasing pitch) type of exercise, with music teacher playing the piano (she's a professional opera singer by the way). Then, we moved on to singing "My Way", opera style (?!). ありえない! Unbelievable!
Matsumura-sensei found it hard to keep up singing in English so we tried singing the Japanese version (yes, there are Japanese lyrics for My Way!), which I succeeded in cos the pace of the song was slow enough. Jubilation all round! Wow, I sang an entire song reading it completely in Japanese! ありえない! Unbelievable!
Then, we sang what you guys would know as "Sukiyaki" but the actual Japanese name is different, and a couple more other songs. But before I could say "Thank you very much, I really had a good time", I was suddenly part of a 3-girl choir group called デコポン Dekopon (a kind of orange which is frightfully ugly and expensive but is very sweet). Check it out...the cheapest kind of dekopon: 2 for 498-yen (about S$7)...expensive ones are sold singularly.
And worst of all, we're gonna perform at a music festival on 24 Feb! Music teacher/opera singer is registering us for the festival tomorrow! Of course I tried to refuse...but those 2 overly-enthusiastic dekopons just don't take no for an answer and kept saying "ok! no problem!". Oh...my...god...
How did I go from being a closet bathroom singer to a reluctant member of a 3-girl choir group that's performing at a music festival in 2 weeks' time within 2 hours?!?!! ありえない!! UNBELIEVABLE!!
The most unbelievable thing happened to me today...it's still sinking in...
This afternoon I accepted a seemingly innocent invitation by the music teacher to attend her music class with the first-graders. When the lesson ended, I was made to stay to join Matsumura-sensei for her vocal training session. Simple ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah (in an increasing pitch) type of exercise, with music teacher playing the piano (she's a professional opera singer by the way). Then, we moved on to singing "My Way", opera style (?!). ありえない! Unbelievable!
Matsumura-sensei found it hard to keep up singing in English so we tried singing the Japanese version (yes, there are Japanese lyrics for My Way!), which I succeeded in cos the pace of the song was slow enough. Jubilation all round! Wow, I sang an entire song reading it completely in Japanese! ありえない! Unbelievable!
Then, we sang what you guys would know as "Sukiyaki" but the actual Japanese name is different, and a couple more other songs. But before I could say "Thank you very much, I really had a good time", I was suddenly part of a 3-girl choir group called デコポン Dekopon (a kind of orange which is frightfully ugly and expensive but is very sweet). Check it out...the cheapest kind of dekopon: 2 for 498-yen (about S$7)...expensive ones are sold singularly.
And worst of all, we're gonna perform at a music festival on 24 Feb! Music teacher/opera singer is registering us for the festival tomorrow! Of course I tried to refuse...but those 2 overly-enthusiastic dekopons just don't take no for an answer and kept saying "ok! no problem!". Oh...my...god...
How did I go from being a closet bathroom singer to a reluctant member of a 3-girl choir group that's performing at a music festival in 2 weeks' time within 2 hours?!?!! ありえない!! UNBELIEVABLE!!
posted by Cindy @ Japan @ 11:30 PM
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