Irritating day at choir

Well choir practice today was same as usual, the choir would just keep yapping and yapping and yapping and well, you get my point. It's a MIRACLE that they never run out of things to talk about.

Throughout warm up, which I unfortunately as the student conducter have to conduct, they were chatting away. When I was working on the Sopranos the Altos would start talking and when I asked them to shut up, the Sopranos would in turn start talking and the baritones just couldn't stop playing the fool. It's like a game of whack-a-mole I tell you=____=. I also had to keep getting their attention by punishing them with dog-pants. As a result the warmup session dragged on for 1 whole hour.

Later on in the day after Mrs Erp, our conductor, evaluated us she scolded us for not giving her the quality and focus that we were supposed to have. Afterwards she told us to write on the board the reasons we were not able to deliver.

When I approached the board however, some members started accusing me and saying that it was my fault for dragging the warm up session and taking away time for them to do sectionals.

I was soooooooooooooo irritated by this, I replied to them that it was not my fault since the choir could not focus and I had to spend so much time shutting them up. As the student conductor, I had to ensure that ther voices were in top condition by the time the conductor arrived, even if it meant eating some extra time. Besides that, the conductor arrived late today.

I didn't say this, but judging by their standards of discipline, whatever sectionals they had would not have accomplished much anyways. I'd rather have them do warm ups where I can make sure that their voices won't suck. Ironically, if I had done the opposite and stuck to the half an hour, their voices would have sucked and then they would blame me again for not giving them proper warm up. see the dillema I'm in?

Then they started saying that I wasn't doing the warm ups but only ordering people around. I answered, I didn't do the warmups because I had to listen to the choir and ensure you are singing correctly. My mind isn't able to do so many things at a time. On a side note, whenever I punished them with dog pants, I ALWAYS did it with them.

Then they accused me with the thing that made me ticked the most and that I feel have no relation whatsoever with the issue. saying, 'Aren't you an Express student? Shouldn't you be able to do that?" I flipped, but on the inside. Composing myself, I told them. "Just because I'm an express student does it make me any more of a human than you?" Indeed I do not believe that NA/T students are inferior in anyway to express students, their just equally gifted in a different way. In any case, their argument was absurd and prepostorous. Just because I'm in an express stream they shouldn't expect me to be some all-powerful being.

It's just so annoyin of them to pin all the blame on me, sigh. Oh God, how long must I contend with these people? I pray for the patience to deal with them. I have Keric and Ilene there as my witnesses that I am innocent of their accusations. Choir is getting more and more dreary for me sigh. But I guess I must also try to do something but I do not know what. Anyone got any suggestions?