Dear Everyone,
Snaps for anyone who can identify the rap artist (I hope I haven't offended anyone by calling a rapper and artist) who featured the words that make up this post's title in one of his or her hit songs.
Well, camp officially ended early Saturday morning, but I was just too tired to blog Saturday, and I started but didn't finish this post yesterday. But I'm back. Camp was an incredible experience as always. I feel very comfortable saying it's the best camp at BYU. Almost everyone who has gone both to EFY and YASE claims that YASE is much more fulfilling and rewarding, and I don't know if other performing arts camps achieve the same level of spirituality or teach the same life lessons.
Sometime when I get back home I'll do a full report on YASE, but I've got things to do today and tomorrow, so here's a short summary:
I sang the part of Bert in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", I sang the song "At Last" (made famous by Etta James) in the showcase, and was voted into the final show, I shed tears every day of camp, and (sorry to break parallel structure, all you English majors) the fireside on Thursday was one of the best firesides I've ever been to.
I'm immensely happy right now and I'm so excited for college and the rest of my life!
Well, I must be going, so I'll leave a video for your enjoyment.
This is the West End/Broadway version of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" after which the Young Ambassadors' version was modeled. It's fun. And difficult :-)
Love,
Christian
P.S. I'm sorry that I never finished posting the videos I said I would.
P.P.S. I really like comments on my posts...
P.P.P.S. I'm sorry that the quality and synchronization of the video is so poor, but I'm sure you can get the idea.
5 comments:
Well, I feel honored to be the VERY FIRST commenter on Christian's amazing blog (seriously, the most entertaining blog in my blogosphere). I can hardly wait for the full report on YASE and all the ways it changed you. I am so glad your mother let you go :) When does the YASE DVD come out with YOU performing as Bert?? I love you and miss you so much!!! Love, mama
Christian, what a fabulous time you had. it appears that you would like to stay in Provo for the rest of the summer. Does the BYU employment office have summer work for you? THe West Side Story parody was fabulous.
Love Daddy
hey Christian! I'm glad you had such a wonderful time at camp. I might contest your assertion that YASE is the best camp at BYU - I happen to think that Summer Scholars Academy is pretty good - but I guess that fulfilling your passion will always be the best experience. hope you have a great day! I love you.
any chance there is video of your performances you can post?
Hooray for comments! Sorry to disappoint, but because of copyright issues, they are did not record the group numbers and will not be issuing a DVD as they have in years past. They did however record the solos and will be posting some online in the future. Trust me I wish I had a video. Anyone who wants a demonstration of the letters just has to ask me for it :-)
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