Sometimes, if you haven’t been able to get away from your friends for a while, you need something fun to get rid of the stress. Some FWCC choir members figured out an easy way to do that on their trip to North Carolina, to the annoyance of everyone else!

Over the summer, the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir (FWCC) went on tour to North Carolina. They attended a camp with other singers at a college, and had a dorm building to themselves since they are such a large group. The dorm building they were in had three floors, with the girls on the top and bottom floors and boys on the second floor. Also on the second floor was the common room, where choir member hung out when they were bored.

One night, at about 10:00, a few choir members and a few parent helpers were in the common room. Everyone was just sitting around, so one of the parent helpers, Mrs. Darnell, decided to show everyone a cool party trick she knew. So she took an acorn out of her pocket, and to everyone’s surprise, blew into it like it was a whistle! “That’s so cool!” exclaimed Sydney. All of the kids who were in the common room agreed, and immediately jumped to learn how to do it.

Showing them how to correctly place their thumbs on the acorn to whistle, Mrs. Darnell attempted to teach everyone. Sydney, one of the choir kids, got it to whistle in a matter of minutes. Lillian took a little more time, but she got it in a few minutes too. Delaney was struggling a bit more, and had to enlist Sydney to help her. After a while though, she got it too!

After some awesome (if headache inducing,) acorn whistling, Delaney walked upstairs, ready for bed. But as soon as she got up the stairs, she turned around, lightning fast, and ran back down. “The echo is super loud!” she told everyone in the common room. “Everyone upstairs can hear us!” They immediately stopped.

A few people (primarily Sydney and Lillian) taught some of the other campers how to whistle acorns. And as it spread, more and more people started to hate the acorn whistling. Everyone was so exasperated with it that there was a designated spot to whistle, so they wouldn’t bother anyone.

Even after the FWCC’s tour was over, Delaney, Sydney, and Lillian continued whistling acorns, and teaching others how to to it as well. To this day, if you ever want to learn how, want to contact someone from far away, or relieve stress in a funny way, if you ask them, they’ll teach you!