Alyssa's ramblings...

Amazing, amazing weekend.

Saturday:
Vocal seminar, and my solo. Eeeek. :o) Although I was nervous, and held back quite a bit, the reaction was better than I could ever have imagined. Oh my goodness. One lady said it brought a tear to her eye, two guys said they got the shivers, people said "Wow" a lot. I even got a standing ovation. I almost cried. Truth be told, I was too nervous to think about communicating with the audience (my mind was focused on whether or not it sounded good), but they felt it. Boy, did they feel it.

I was admonished for not feeling anything for the song myself, though (which is true). But Daniel said it could take years and years of practice to be able to feel & convey emotion and passion about what you're singing.

Daniel also taught me an exercise to give my singing more "body". It's called speech-level singing. Kind of saying the words, but with melody. I don't fully understand how to do it, but when I ran through the start of the song again, he said it was much better.

Saturday Night:
Fusion, a combined Youth Group event. We had over 350 people at Youth, from different churches around the city. It was awesome, and HUGE. Very much a Planet Shakers atmosphere. :o) I was involved in the Service Teams.

That was the big decision, by the way. I am now a Youth Service Team leader. I'm glad I said yes, because although it'll be a lot of work, I'm really excited about being involved in making the night happen for Craig and everyone who comes to Youth. My team is awesome, too (we just picked members last night, and they don't even know they're on my team yet). Happiness. :o)

Sunday Morning:
I was on singers at church, and Keren was leading. She gave me the opportunity to start a song by myself! I had a feeling that would happen, but I wasn't prepared for it to be a praise song! It was 'You Are Worthy', by the wonderful Mike Guglielmucci (my apologies if that's spelt incorrectly).

You alone are King of all kings
You alone are Lord of lords {high note}
You alone, my Lord, are worthy
Worthy of this offering of praise...

I wasn't very nervous, surprisingly, but that's a bit concerning, because Daniel was saying on Saturday that "if you're not nervous, you're dead... and so is your performance". But a little bit nervous is still nervous enough, right? I just see that as an improvement in my confidence level. :o)

Sunday Afternoon:
My husband and I went to get sushi with Dale and Jalane. Jalane rocks. We talk really easily now, and we're becoming quite good friends. I think she's fabulous! Oh, and Dale's not too shabby, either. :o)

Then we went home and slept. Especially good for my husband, since he hadn't slept at all on Friday night (he was setting up for Fusion)! He hadn't slept for 42.5 consecutive hours (from 6:30am Friday to 1:00am Sunday). Craziness. But he's having the day off today, and hopefully it has involved a lot of sleep.

Today has been pretty good. Tonight we're going to our friend Sarah's birthday party, at Hog's Breath Café. It should be fun. We got her a box of chocolates and a fluffy toy baby horse. It is so very cute! I found a picture of it - the horse at the back of this photo (it's so much more gorgeous in real life, though):


 

posted by Alyssa @ 4:14 PM