This is the choir I was in last semester.
That's the conductor of the youth choir though, our conductor is the man on the right, playing the tamborine!
Due to a very complicated rearranging of the conductors, half of the adults (white-shirted humans) in this photo are now in a separate choir led by the same tamborine-wielding conductor.
I must say, choir night was and is the highlight of my week.
We all have the daily obligations of either school or work (perhaps even both!), but how many of us take time to hang out with people who share similar interests, who we wouldn't otherwise have met?
I have found that when you are around work friends or school friends, even while avoiding the topic, they still remind you of school or work (and perhaps assignments you're avoiding). Guilt is sure to follow.
When you are involved in something completely different, there is a special time in your week alotted to being completely free of these thoughts. You're able to focus on something else, like forming wonderful friendships with unlikely people.
I love choir. Not because I think I'm some kind of singing prodigy, but because I love the feeling that comes with making music with a group of people. Even HORRIBLE music! That just leads to teasing and jokes and eventually, tears of laughter. Every week. Without fail.
(Alto sections, I've found, are the best to be part of. We are vulgar and sarcastic and mildly self-deprecating. I laugh a lot in rehearsals.)
So if you're feeling weighed down by the monotony of school/work, join a club of some sort! Go curling, play bridge, join an orchestra!
It's good for your soul, and blood pressure too.
