As I have perfect pitch（绝对音感）and started playing piano at 3 years old, it's much natural for me to join the school's choir when I got to college in the US.
At first, everything went pretty 1 : I passed the audition（试音）, and was even invited to join the more selective Chamber Singers. However, I soon became 2 after several rehearsals（排练）: From jokes to music theory, I simply couldn't understand what they were talking about! And when I 3 others' pitch mistakes, they seemed unwilling to accept. I remained silent even when I knew the pitches were 4 .
It was our New Year Concert last year that 5 me out of deep waters When we were singing the words of a song: "To live is to give", I thought "how could I be 6 just being a silent Asian? "Soon after the 7 , I started my plan. In my second term, I 8 to join all the conversations and started to help fellow singers with my abilities 9 identifying pitch. I was overwhelmed by the content of helping people, and was thrilled 10 more choir members came to me for casual talks.
From March to May, I was 11 soloist（独唱者）for four different songs, an unusual 12 for a first-year student. Among them, my favorite piece was a Spanish folk song that we 13 during the choir's spring tour to Madrid. A Chinese student singing a Spanish song in an American choir-how proud I was to 14 as an ambassador of cross-cultural communication! When the audience applauded us, I came to see a better world with understanding, 15 and love.
