Comfort Zone

Malia is in choir this semester and it has ended up being one of her favorite classes. This evening was her first ever choir concert and while she was nervous, I also think she was excited. She stepped out of her comfort zone and into some nice slacks and a blouse instead of her normal jeans and a hoodie and she looked fantastic. Between the time that we left her and the time she showed up on stage, one of her friends pulled her hair back with a clip and that looked good too. Malia isn’t much concerned with things like that, normally just brushing it out and calling it good, but she has fantastic hair, and it doesn’t surprise me that the other girls want to play with it. It is a totally normal teenage girl kind of a thing. And maybe some of their hair knowledge will give Malia some ideas of simple ways to style her hair. 

Malia doesn’t like being the center of attention and a large part of her nervousness was the fact that she knew hundreds of people would be watching her. But once again she stepped out of her comfort zone. She did a great job and discovered that under the stage lights, you can’t actually see all that much of the audience. She still needs to learn to focus on the director all the time, but that is one of those things that takes practice too. She has only been in choir for about six weeks, so there is plenty of time for her to learn some of these choir etiquette things. She has also chosen concert choir as one of her electives for next year, so she will have lots of opportunities to learn and progress and grow and find joy in music. 

And as for the one song she sang that she absolutely hates, it really was one of the dumbest songs I’ve heard in a long, long time. She has my full support in disliking it.