I know that was a stupid question to ask. Everyone did, of course!!
Whee, I don't know why I'm posting here, maybe it's because it's so dark here. I am your light. Dingding! :)
gggg, seems such a long time ago since we were sec1s and new to everything in Dance. When we were still learning the warm-up and getting used to things. When we got scolded by Christine and Cassandra like crazy and got freaked out by all of them. Before we knew it, they had stepped down and Michelle, Zifang and Lily stepped up. They were no scarier than the previous batch. But we loved them all the same.
I remember Elizabeth teaching Letty, Zhen and I how to do Qianfans, and always telling us where we went wrong and everything. When we even had time to take out all the mats and practice, before we turned up our noses at everything like that..
When we had our very first performance, Speech Day 06. And I had to dance the horrendous Qi Ge Ren, the most dainty and un-me dance in history. Remember the Mongolian dance where everyone laughed at us and we were so self-conscious? We went through that together. Then it was time for SYF practices,where everytime we were unsure we had to ask the seniors and it was so scary. It was a terrible period of time, but we endured it together. The much-coveted sleeping time was used by everyone and I remember there was once when a- okay I think that was the next year. My memory's all fuzzy, pardon me.
We had morning practices, where we'd dance our SYF in the morning and were excused for Mass Run, I think.. Where we'd stay in the hall til assembly until the whole school started filing in. We practised the same dance over and over again, but we didn't even seem to improve. I know I cried frequently, at home, because I was so scared we would disappoint our seniors and Laoshi. (I feel so weak yuck. ) The day before our actual performance, I remember Zifang saying that we'd all worked hard for it, and the outcome didn't matter. And we shouted siyeyaopingchulai that one last time..
The performance, was, a blur. I can't remember it. I just remember many people crying but I was just standing there, feeling lost. The results came a few days later, Michelle, Joyce and Elizabeth came bursting into our classroom saying we got GWH. We cried. And when the sec4s 07' left, we cried again. All of us. As we hugged, I could feel the passion for Crescent Dance vibrating through every one of us, the feeling was just, remarkable.
Vitality, our pride and joy.