Well as you may know, I am currently in the prep show choir at Kennedy High school. This past weekend we had a competition at Linn-Mar High in Marion. We had one of the best performing times out of all the groups; nine at night. Since we were performing one of the last, we had to take advantage of that opportunity to impress the crowd and the judges that night. I didn't really think we were that prepared for the competition, but I was totally blown away by the outcome. Personally, when I'm on stage performing in front of hundreds of people I get really tense and worry about every little thing I do. It's not that I'm not physically ready, but the mental part of everything gets to me.
The factor that gets me the most about stage fright is that anyone could be "all eyes on you". It makes me wonder how many people actually look at me verses the people that don't even notice I'm there. Being in the front row, I think about how much it would affect the group. If I mess up, chances are that someone behind is going to be looking at me and repeat the same movement as me. After our show was performed and we were off stage, we had some chill time until finals. I couldn't stop thinking about whether we did really good or really bad. From what I had heard we did spectacular, but I wasn't going to trick myself into thinking that so I wouldn't be upset with the results. Sure enough, finals time rolled around and everyone got more and more stressed about how the turnout was going to be. We ended up getting the award for FIRST place. Yeah, I know. It was sweet. Being in show choir has taught me many things. Before every performance, I make sure I go on the stage with an open mind and am prepared for anything that gets thrown at me. I have learned to perform to the best of my ability and no matter what place we get, we are number one in my eyes and things couldn't have gone any better.
One thing I hate about competitions is the way people act differently and sometimes immature. As of a couple days ago, Protege is no longer able to wear Happiness jackets during their performances because a couple of the kids in Protege were complained about by a Jefferson mom and were said to be 'laughing at a Jefferson performance'. I talked to them about it and they said they were only telling each other that Jefferson's show was "legit". One big factor that brought this upon us was the amount of competition between Kennedy and Jefferson. It really aggravates me to hear that we are no longer able to wear Happiness jackets due to a big misconception. Wearing Happiness jackets during their performances has been a tradition for over twenty years and it kills me to see it be taken away.
We were told that this year’s Protégé ensemble is the best one Kennedy High School has ever seen. And to think I didn’t want to be in it at the beginning of the year? I didn’t expect the season to start of this great. I have to remember that the season isn’t over and we still have to face many really good competitors. We need not to get big heads about winning grand champs.
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