Thursday, February 19, 2009

Kicked out the Choir

So this week I had my first and last choir practice for my principals retirement party. Luckily I found out that the other native English speaker had been ask to come too, and he informed me that he couldn't sing either. So things were looking up. Koreans are really big into this thing called Norebang, which is essentially Karaoke. So they are used to hearing people who cant sing, sing their hearts out. So when I arrived at choir practice I assumed that there would only be a few teachers who could sing.

Boy was a wrong. I got their and teachers were warming-up like professionals and the choir director was the business. I was like oh snap, let me see if I can blend in, but they were hitting notes so high I was like let me just try to lip sing this. It was hilarious because the few times i would sing, the choir director would point to the area next to me, and be like someone is off, and I was like man its probably me. So, after about an hour into practice, two teachers say some to our co-teacher in Korean and everyone looks at us. So me and the other teacher are like, well they must be trying to kick us out. This happens to us a lot, they come up with random excuses for us to leave things, but hey usually by that time I'm ready to go.

So co-teacher looks at us, and is like we thought you guys may be uncomfortable having to sit silently during the first song, because its in Korean. I was like I was just going to lip sync or ohh all the way through. So the other teacher called the principal for you, and you guys can leave. I was like man. It was my singing. I know it.

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