Not a normal Ash Wednesday
February 13, 2013
I thought my voice was back to normal last weekend, but I was wrong. I blew my voice out during the choir rehearsal on Sunday, and, by the time we got to the anthem, I could barely sing. I croaked out - maybe - 1/4 of the notes. I usually give my voice a month to recover after almost totally losing it like I did in January. This time, I was too excited to get back to choir so I only gave my voice 2 1/2 weeks.
No singing for at least the next week and a half means no church either. I can't go and not sing (I've tried before, and I just can't) - so I missed the Ash Wednesday service today.
I'm trying to get in better shape to help get my blood pressure down so I've been doing four Zumba classes a week (plus one Broadway dance).* The Ash Wednesday service was during one of my usual four classes so I just went to Zumba like usual.
At first, I kept looking at the clock to see where they were in the service. We were dancing to In a Search at about the time for the first reading. "I wanna party with a sexy lady..." - not unusual lyrics for Zumba, but certainly not Ash Wednesday-ish.
Here's a video of another instructor's version of the song. The choreography that our instructor does to the chorus is similar, including the body roll, but the rest of the choreography is different:
During the second reading?
Booty Shake. That's when I decided to stop looking at the clock.
Here's another instructor's choreography for Booty Shake. The moves that our instructor does for part of the chorus and the bridge are similar (the rest is different). I love it when we break into the samba during the bridge!
Once I stopped thinking about not being at the service, I had a wonderful time (as usual) at Zumba (one of my favorite instructors), and it was over before I was ready.
* At first, four Zumba classes a week made me really tired. Now, I don't even really notice.
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