Monday, June 22, 2015

1 - Chants and Cheers

It's been two weeks since our professor told us that we will have out first project and that is we should present a cheer. Imagine first day of my second year college life and your professor already told you that you will have your first project for this term, like wth right? It is very hard because first we only have limited time to do it and our group or block is really small, we are only 20 students so how are we able to let our voices be heard at the whole auditorium without using any mic? So we should really shout. But unfortunately I got sick, I had coughs and colds but i still shout at my block mates because they don't wanna listen and I'm like their 'ate' because I'm already second year college and most of them are freshmen. So what happened is I lost my voice, so lucky that my best friend, Letty, is here to help us so she lead us on how to make our cheer perfect and she also add some steps and ideas for our cheer to be better. It is very hard because most us are boys, we are only seven girls and it is really hard to lead boys because they don't follow us and they are like a kid because they don't follow you even though they understand you.

We finished the cheer 5 days before the competition and we memorized it 4 days before so we have no choice but to cram because we still don't have any choreography and it is not yet polished so since then we practice every night, from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. So I always go home late because of the stupid traffic at coastal and I should wake up at 5 am, so my body is really tired then you will see some of your block mates are not cooperating to your cheer so I got lazy practicing, well we all are so I promised myself that after this cheer I will sleep for 24 hours straight. kidding :)).

It is really hard especially for me because I'm an irregular student, sometimes I have a quiz for my other subjects but I can't study because I need to practice for the Chants and Cheers. And when I need to buy something for our project I don't have time because when I got home it is already late and also our block wants to spend and spend money for our props that we don't really need for our performance. And I bought our costume at Baclaran all by myself, forever alone I know, but I insisted it because there is no one else who can but it for us.

Today, June 23, the day before our competition, they are still chilling, our props are not yet finished, our cheer is not yet polished and they are still planning to put some more choreography. So good luck to us tomorrow.

On the bright side I made new friend from my new block. Like omg they are also crazy like me HAHAHA. And I also introduce them to delicious foods and also have a good price at Evangelista. 

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