Marade

Yesterday on Monday we attended the Martin Luther King Marade. Okay so all of you reading this are like what in God's name is a marade. A marade is not a march, which can be seen as a protest and not entirely a celebration which is a parade, therefore the word marade was invented. This was a very interesting experience since I have never taken part in anything of the sort. The ending total for people who maraded was 45,000 people. That is just mind blowing to me because of how much of a percentage of Sioux Falls' population that is. During the marade I got to hold a sign that said "Think Globally/Act Locally" I held this sign high for the purpose of shade. The temperature as we walked down Colfax Ave was 66 degrees farenheight.

After the marade a couple of us went to Subway for a quick lunch, or as my European friends say "American Lunch". We hurried back to our staging building for the rest of the days activities. These included for me dancing "Keep the Beat" which is a very fast jazzy song, it struck me as almost lyrical because of how precise all the movements have to be. Later during cast movement I was pulled downstairs along with another guy to sing. We sang the opening to "Ayiko" which is a chant, "Ounce of Positive" again which is a blues song, "Power With" which is a hip hop song, and "Oye El Boom" which is the salsa number for the show the hard part about this is that it is in Spanish and I have no experience in speaking or singing Spanish. The vocal dude, who is really cool I would tell you his name but I forgot, told the both of us that we sound to choir boyish, thanks Mrs. Britton you accomplished your goal. I know have to change every aspect of my singing voice for this show.

So there is another day highlighted I skipped over the class portions of the day since they are not as interesting. I am going to try to upload "Oye El Boom" onto they blog so you can listen to what I have to learn how to sing.