15 - Cram. Cram. Cram.
Today (December 22, 2015), we had the Interclass Ignite Speech and the Speech Choir Competition. Everyone at the APC Auditorium were excited, all were cheering and shouting for their blocks.
Our performance may look like it was practiced and rehearsed for a long time but the truth is we actually crammed it. We started practicing when it was already December 14, a week before the competition. When teachers gave us time to practice and told us to show what progress we have made, we just make things up. We haven't made any progress at all. We also didn't have a good practice since every practice there is at least someone who won't be attending the practice especially to irregular students. We were having a hard time adjusting our time to their free time. For our props, we just did it in one day. In that one day, we gift wrapped a lot of boxes, cut and painted all those candy canes and crowns, and bought all those clothing that we will be wearing for our performance. Everything was done in just a week.
Now let's go to December 22. It was morning at around 7:10 am where classmates started coming in to our classroom. Everyone wasn't even dressed on what they will be wearing for the performance. We also had problems regarding the props. Some props were missing. We had to make another crown since there were only two and we need three. Not everyone has received their costume yet. Not all girls have their neck ties. We also had problems with the others. It was already 8:00 am and the girls still doesn't have their neck ties and some of our blockmates haven't arrived yet in school. Everyone was rushing and panicking at the same time. Also, some of our blockmates didn't know the final step which was only taught the day before the actual performance so we had to explain everything. This is what happened to us just this early morning.
We, my group of friends only, went up to the auditorium to check up on things if the event already started etc. Luckily, it hasn't even started. We still had time. When it was already our time to perform, all of us were shaking. We weren't able to master our performance well.
Our performance may look like it was practiced and rehearsed for a long time but the truth is we actually crammed it. We started practicing when it was already December 14, a week before the competition. When teachers gave us time to practice and told us to show what progress we have made, we just make things up. We haven't made any progress at all. We also didn't have a good practice since every practice there is at least someone who won't be attending the practice especially to irregular students. We were having a hard time adjusting our time to their free time. For our props, we just did it in one day. In that one day, we gift wrapped a lot of boxes, cut and painted all those candy canes and crowns, and bought all those clothing that we will be wearing for our performance. Everything was done in just a week.
Now let's go to December 22. It was morning at around 7:10 am where classmates started coming in to our classroom. Everyone wasn't even dressed on what they will be wearing for the performance. We also had problems regarding the props. Some props were missing. We had to make another crown since there were only two and we need three. Not everyone has received their costume yet. Not all girls have their neck ties. We also had problems with the others. It was already 8:00 am and the girls still doesn't have their neck ties and some of our blockmates haven't arrived yet in school. Everyone was rushing and panicking at the same time. Also, some of our blockmates didn't know the final step which was only taught the day before the actual performance so we had to explain everything. This is what happened to us just this early morning.
We, my group of friends only, went up to the auditorium to check up on things if the event already started etc. Luckily, it hasn't even started. We still had time. When it was already our time to perform, all of us were shaking. We weren't able to master our performance well.
After our performance, we were not confident with our performance. Even our leader said that our performance wasn't really that good. Sad.
Now let's go to the awarding ceremony. Now this is a surprise but then again this also happened to our "Sabayang Pagbigkas" competition. We won 3rd place in the Speech Choir competition. It was amazing winning the competition where we haven't even mastered our performance yet. It was really surprising.
PS: We won 2nd place in the Sabayang Pagbigkas competition with a score of 96.5 and the first place of 97.5. It was so close winning 1st place out of 17 groups. Heheh.
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