Breakfast:
You guessed it...berries, low-fat yoghurt and granola (So original!)
Lunch...which I actually ate for dinner instead:
Tuna and swiss cheese sandwich on whole-wheat bread...and cashews (didn't eat all those cashews)
This morning I also did Charitable Deed number 2:
I volunteered at The Church Of the Holy Apostles soup Kitchen.
Arrived at 9.30am, had a brief food handling safety course...was given plastic apron, gloves, hair-net and paper hat and assigned the position of floor girl. I basically went back to my waitressing and flight attendant days and cleared tables, wiping down the areas, filling up jugs of water, milk, replacing salt n pepper etc.
I'm missing my hat in this picture...which was awesome!
Finished cleaning tables at around 12.30pm. The mals looked tasty, each guest received a tray with bread, baked sweet potato, veggie mix, pork something, more veggies, yoghurt or jello and iced tea or milk or water. They were allowed to go for seconds if they went around and lined up again which a few people did. They also were able to take 2 bread rolls for the road. The bread ranged from dinner rolls, to bagels, to pumpkin bread and ciabatta. All donated from different bakeries.
I spoke to a few of the other volunteers as well as the organizer and found out some great things. They serve 1000 meals on average per day! The church pays for 75% of the food provided whilst things like bread are usually donated. Some volunteers are there EVERYDAY. Most people that go there are homeless, but some are from other living situations and just can't afford food or they are in between jobs and need to save their money. Either way there is no discrimination, anyone may go and eat here. They also have counselling for those that need it, medicaid truck that comes once a week and a clothing drive frequently. It was inspiring and warming to be around such selfless people.
The guests were pleasant, and the majority were grateful. Always saying thankyou and asking questions. This was their time to socially interact with other people, some people that I talked to were so gentle in spirit and really appreciated the food they had been given. I am glad I was able to be there amongst them to witness it all. I really want to find more volunteer work like this. I feel it is not only a good use of my time, but it is benefiting someone else and it is opening up my eyes to the world... to life!
Went to Bettina's Vocal technique class afterwards and did 40 minutes of vocal technique, then we worked on "They Say It's Wonderful" from Annie Get your Gun. I really enjoy Irving Berlin's music and was given this song by Darren Cohen (in my coaching lesson) last week. So it was perfect that we went over it in class. We experimented with "conversational style" singing. How you can keep the melody and stay in the Broadway genre, but make it more believable. Not so stuck in the detached way that you can fall into when you first hear some of the phrases. The most useful exercise is making the conversational lines into a duologue... that way you say the sentence (in a speaking voice) how you would normally, listening to which words you lean on etc and mimic it when you sing, but staying in tempo. (Homework: youtube Ethel Merman singing this song!)
Also asked in class if the meow scale (nasal twang) was a good way to get back into belt if you feel like you are sitting too much in chest...and it is! So need to practice this one more. It should never hurt or catch in the throat, should feel it in the front nasal/cheekbones.
Then I said Goodbye to my Aussie friend Sheridan who leaves to go home after dancing here for 3 months, she''l be back... All my friends are leaving me:( So Sad!
That's all for today...
Except I am starting to freak out that I won't get evreything done by the end of this 30 days!!!
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