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Personal Narrative: How Choir Changed My Life

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I have been in choir since I was five, in the many years I have spent with the choir I have learned many new things. They Include: discipline, and the importance of listening, especially to your elders as they have valuable information and guidance that they can provide you with. Acceptance, many of the people I have met through choir have had trouble with things that are hard to talk about, or are part of the LGBT+ community, since befriending them I have found that people can accepting. Theory, obviously I have learned this with the books and theory tuesday, but I want to continue this into college and a carrier eventually. Friendships, because of the Golden Gate Festival I now have two great friends from Austria. Passion, though most of my family has become passionate about some sport I did not, after joining the choir …show more content…

Though there are many other things I have gotten to do and learn through choir, I really really want to continue. It has been a major part of my life for I don’t know how long and I can’t imagine what my life would be like without it. Ever since my parents split up there have been money trouble, because of that my family has always had to think about and watch what they spent an extra curricular activities my siblings and I did. As we grew older my father took what we were doing more seriously. He always wanted to make sure that what we were doing was going to benefit us most when we became adults. Choir he thinks is not something that will affect me in the long run, my father is wrong. The joy and peace that choir gives me will be a lasting light in my life. So far the best day of my life was the day I got to go to my first rehearsal after I knew for sure that I was continuing. When I got the the rehearsal space I saw a few of my friends, their reactions to my continuing choir made me feel like the most loved person on the planet. Overall, what I love to do most is sing, and if I have the opportunity to continue I won't waste a single

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