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Dana Kuehn

Mr. DiTommaso

Advanced Composition

March 10, 2014

Option #4: Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?

It is not out of character for almost any student to say that their extracurriculars are their life,

like they football player would say that football is their life, the band kid says that music is their

life, and so on. Fitting that pattern to a “T”, choir is my life. Sounding entirely cliche, choir is my

life. Not only the music, but every aspect. I have learned so much through choir that I know has

made me the person that I am today.

I was lucky to have my first experience singing in a choir in sixth grade. I had been doing

musicals since I was 6 and knew I loved every bit of performing, and wanted to sing in a choir

so badly. I was in for a surprise though. Choir wasn't about whoever was the best got the best

role, like a musical, it was that each and every voice was a puzzle piece. It was about the

completed sound. When even one kid was absent, it sounded entirely different and each and

every kid was so important. I learned so much that year and I carried that with me through high

school.

As a freshman in choir, I knew that singing was exactly what I wanted to do. I looked forward

to choir every single day, I even joined the girls a cappella group, and took private voice

lessons. I started to spend more and more time in the choir room, and I was loving every

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second. during my sophomore year I became a member of the show choir, which added even

more hours outside of school spent on choir, and was in one of the "audition required" choirs. I

am a senior now, I am in charge of that a cappella group that I once looked up to the leaders of.

I choreograph a women's show choir of over thirty students. I take two choir classes each day,

and I am one of five students officers that oversee the department. The choir room has become

my second home more than I could have ever imagined.

Choir is about a group of people singing and not just about the one "girl that is good at

singing." To me, that choir room is a sanctuary. I spent so many hours there through high

school. I just know my memories of what happened in that room will be the ones I talk about

forever. I know that as a freshman going in to choir I loved every second, but as I grew up and

started to become the kids that I knew I admired, it became the place where I am truly in my

element.