Performances...are nerve racking.

i apologize for not writing anything for almost a week! it's been CRAZY busy lately!!! Okay, so...PERFORMANCE NIGHT!

On Tuesday we had our performance night at UCA! It was SO MUCH FUN! Well we got there 3 hours early for a walkthrough and we just mainly hung out and talked until we had to sing. So when it almost came time for the parents to start arriving, every student was in a tizzy trying to get into their uniforms! Once that was all done, people started arriving and i started getting nervous. The nervousness subsided after about 10 minutes and i was actually REALLY excited!!! That is until...i peek through into the sanctuary to see it almost filled. O_O. That's when the REAL nervousness started! I didn't think i would get as nervous as i actually got. My first performance was my Female Quartet and when we walked up there i tried my best to not act nervous, and when i looked on the tape my Dad recorded i didn't seem nervous...that is until i sang my brief solo. My voice wasn't normal like it usually is and it didn't sound very good. What happens when i get on stage is i'm nervous until i sing for a minute and then it mostly goes away. On my second solo i sounded good. When we walked off the stage my hands wouldn't stop shaking (aftereffects of nervous performing) and i had to sit down and calm myself! lol! Then i wasn't nervous in the Small Ensemble performance, or the Large Ensemble performance. We had a 30 minute break and pretty much went back to chaos. My next performance was a Mixed Quartet and i had to do the introduction which i was REALLY nervous about doing because i was afraid of messing up. I wrote down the introduction on my hand, too, just in case i blanked. On the way onto the stage i was pretty much staring at my hand and saying it in my head over and over again. When me, Ben, and JP got our microphones, something was wrong with Ellen's microphone and Mr. Counts had to go on stage and fix it! So me, Ben, and JP were just standing there trying not to laugh at the fact that of course it was US that had the technical difficulties! I was getting calm, though, during that brief waiting time and when i said our intro, i didnt sound very nervous!! We went through the song without messing up and it was all good after that! The other Large Ensemble song sounded great and then the night was over! Even though i went through all that nervousness and such, i wanna do another one!!! It was so fun! ^.^ Anyways, i hope you enjoyed reading my hard trial i went through!!

Sincerely,
Jo