Evensong

        Friday afternoon, 1:40, SJK Chapel, 35 minutes, lots of bored kids.  This is a common sight at SJK when Middle and Upper school congregate in the tallest building at St. John’s Kilmarnock, the chapel.  At 1:40 learning stops and the religious portion of the school week takes over.  The chapel itself is a grand building but has the potential to become quite stuffy with a few hundred bodies in it.  Based solely on the expressions of those participating in evensong it can become a tedious poses of sitting, standing, singing, then sitting again.  All in all it is by far the longest 35 minutes of my life.

          There are many issues orbiting in a roundabout fashion with Evensong at the heart.  First and foremost is the timing.  2 o'clock on a Friday afternoon is usually when I would prefer to enter the state known as sleeping, or at the very least a state of reduced consciousness.  Second is the setting.  A grand building with reasonable architecture and high ceilings is the optimal location for a large gathering. The chapel does fills this roll well, unfortunately at 1:40 every Friday too many people sit in it for too long and it becomes the most boring and stuffy room north of the tropic of cancer.

        Since someone decided that a blog can’t be someone complaining, and complaining, and complaining I have to give a possible solution.  In light of this complication I propose one of two things.  Option one being to cut a few holes in the roof to let in fresh air.  The second and more practical option being to shorten the length of evensong. 

             After you finish reading this and nothing happens to improve evensong I won’t be disappointed.  The simple fact being that a grade eight student wrote this and my opinion will be greatly overshadowed by the big changes at SJK being implemented next year.