May
15
2012
For my freshmen service project, I decided to go to the Champ Home (along with Jacquelyn G, Kyle W, Andrew F, Matt O’C, Brennan H, and Matt A.) because I was interested in helping people in our community who are less fortunate.
On the walk over to the home I thought of the types of situations I could be walking into. And, I also had an interest in getting to know the people who lived there and their background and life stories.
Going on this service trip was an eye-opener to the fact that Cape Cod not only has a large amount of people who are upper and middle class and who are also less fortunate. I learned that the people currently living in the Champ Home were not only homeless but were making the better decision for themselves to get back up on their feet by quitting drugs and the consumption of alcohol.
Mar
19
2012
Building Bonds
Posted by admin in Performing Arts Sunday, March 18, 2012:
Attend Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan;
Travel back to Cape Cod
The tour brought the choir together in many ways, but I think that one task we had to accomplish multiple times was what really made everyone work together. This task was setting up and taking down the equipment.
I for one am not very strong and neither are other guys and girls in the choir. Moving a riser rail without another person was almost impossible for the majority of people on the tour. Just to lift one took two people working as one to maneuver the long and tall rail into the buildings where we were singing. Continue Reading »
Mar
18
2012
More Powerful Than Any Broadway Show
Posted by admin in Performing Arts Saturday, March 17, 2012:
Performance at Rosary Hill Cancer Hospice Home, Hawthorne, NY;
Attend Wicked
I don’t know if I have ever been to a more peaceful place than Rosary Hill Cancer Hospice Home. I can’t even describe the feeling that I had felt while I was there.
I had thought that I would be upset to meet people who may die within a year, but I never felt any sadness while I was there. The joy that both the patients and nuns had amazed me.
It felt good to sing for all of the little kids at the schools, but it was incredible to be able to sing at the cancer home. I think that the kids may have heard and understood the music more, but the patients felt the music deeper. Continue Reading »