Rhapsody and Speech Day: The Last Performace for The Seniors of The Choir (Part 1:Rhapsody)

With the announcement of the merger of Henderson Secondary School and Bukit Merah Secondary School, our excitement for the merger was destroyed when we found out there wasn't a CHOIR there. However, our worries were replaced with determination pretty soon when we were told that our teachers have asked our principal, Mr Simon Lourds to create a choir over at the merged school but of course we needed to show that we were worthy of such a honour and this year's Rhapsody and Speech Day was our last chance to show that we are a CCA that should exist in the merged school.
First came Rhapsody where we did our 2 songs, Rhyme of Life and Count On Me. We were obviously nervous as we had to walk on a red carpet and show off the ourselves, the purpose of this performance was to show case each of the performing arts CCA, and as Choir was the first to walk on the red carpet all eyes were immediately turned to us. Knowing this made us all pretty nervous but we did our best to look cheerful and joyful, and we were taken by surprised by how the audience responded to our appearance, they cheered us on and helped replace our anxiety with courage, it was truly a blessing on our side.
After walking through the elegant red carpet we waited for our turn at the backstage where we tried our best to practice and get ourselves ready, but it wasn't easy as there was limited space at the backstage and to make matters worse there were the instruments from the Concert Band which caused it to be more cramped, and we were even required to give way to the dance girls which made it almost impossible to practice in any way. Before we knew it, it was the choir's turn to perform with our hearts beating some tried their best to keep a calm façade but it quickly faded away as our paltry efforts to keep our hearts from beating like crazy didn't work. When our queue came we wished each another the best of luck and entered the stage with smiles and cheerful faces.
We were greeted with beautiful cheers from the audience, once more the audience saved us from our own anxiety (haha). Our first song was The Rhyme Of Life which was a song that was meant to entertain the audience and give them a good laugh followed by Count On Me which speaks of friendship and give off a cheerful vibe. Later we even sang the national anthem with pride and energy. After the performance, we were extremely elated to know that our principal has praised us and even said that he was impressed, this encouraged us to give an even better performance for Speech Day.
However, of course they were things we could improve on like how we bowed in order to make it look coordinated. And thus we ended off Rhapsody with feelings of satisfaction and happiness, as well as the determination to do better for Speech Day.