Endings and Beginnings, Beginnings and Endings

Ahh... a typical Monday at school. The day starts off with morning assembly. But today's assembly is a little different, 'cause backstage somewhere SMKBU's Choral Speaking team is getting ready and they are really practicing hard.

The Choral Speaking team wouldn't need to be so tense if

- they practiced more on Thursday. (The conductor gets full blame for lack of practice.)

- and if all the members showed up. Who gets the blame??

And so here starts the story. As told by conductor Rhonwyn Hagedorn, 3 Amanah.

When the bell rang an anouncement was made for all Choral Speakers to gather in the canteen. 5 minutes later I asked Julian to make another one, but no one else showed up except those who were already in the canteen. Head count: 21 Choral Speaking members out of 32 that went for competition. Where did the missing ones go I did not know. Some had an excusable excuse for not coming. But the rest....?

Since majority of the absent ones had solo parts, we had to find substitutes from those who came. It took a while to sort out. Lots of hoo haa here and there and questions about the movements and lines... In the end we got that sorted out... and then full practice. Thanks to long speeches on stage, we got to practice a full round and 2/3 of another round.

Then it was show time. When I walked out there were some comments like "ooo mat selleh". Translated: There's the JU mat salleh who takes pics during assembly... but now she's without her camera nor her JU tag, so whats going on now?" Skip the junk.

When we entered stage I noticed a mistake.

The 3 long lines are row one, two and three. Line one is the shortest.

The light blue dot is me.

The orang square are where the teachers are sitting.

And the white, yes, the students.

Now what went wrong.

The red dot is Brian. Now Brian's spot is on the right, as seen in this picture.

But today when we were on stage, row one came out the wrong way and Brian ended up standing on the left, like in this pic.

The SMKBU people sitting down were a bit... annoying. But what can we do? They were giving comments like "Translate into BM, I can't understand" or "I can't hear anything!" And the solutions to cure those problems?

Solution to problem 1. Speak and read more English.

Solution to problem 2. Don't talk when we're reciting our script!!

Overall I think we did really well considering the small amount of students who showed up.

Students who showed up for competition. Exclude the Form 5 members and Simone who changed school last Friday. Now compare to the amount who showed up.

Taa daa... Big difference isn't it?

I'm so proud of those who still had the spirit for Choral Speaking and showed up. And I know Mr Eugene is proud of you guys as well. To those who didn't come without a reason..... My message to you...

"Haha"

It means something, that "haha" up there, you just gotta know what it means.

Message to all members:

Choral Speaking is about the team, and your small little flame of passion for Choral Speaking will make a big difference. It makes us as a team shine even brighter when we recite our script. A dead flame among us is noticable.

If there is another upcoming event that requests Choral Speaking, I hope that everyone has a small flame of passion.

But if no more events, this is the end of our Choral Speaking journey this year, an ending, but a bright new beginning next year when we go back for competition, high hopes of winning the top. But also knowing that we have won in our hearts, as a brightly lit team.

*out*