Get a change to sing at graduation

            The happiness to get a change to sing at graduation. 1 month before the graduation day the choir group got information that the choir group will be participate on the graduation day, we were happy and confused at the same time, because we didn’t have a coach to train us to perform at the graduation and we only have 1 month to prepare for the graduation. 2 days after that, we were told we will have a new coach, we feel pessimistic and hopeless because we don’t know who will train us.

            We start practice on Monday with the new coach, at first we feel nervous and awkward trained by her, but all those feelings changed when she trained us with her passion, spirit and her jokes that makes us feel happy to practice with her. We used practice once a week but by that time we and the coach agreed we had to spend more time practicing, and we add more time to practicing three times in a week. At the next practising we were given a list of songs by the graduation committee, we were surprised that we had 15 more songs to sing, I was more suprised when in between we practicing the coach choosing me to sing solo’s at the event. I feel unworthy to sing solo’s and represent of the choir group, but the coach convinced me that I could take her offer, I took her offer in nervousness. I promise I will not let her and my friends down, I will practice really hard.

            We went to the venue the day before the event because we had to do rehearsal for to perfect our performance. We went to the venue with a car provided by the committee, but we have to wait a very long time because the car provided is not enough capacity. After we arrived at the venue we had to wait again because some of our friends had not yet come to the venue. While waiting, me and my friend walked around the mall near the venue. Rehearsal starts around 3 o’clock, we started by checking a sound in the venue after that we did a vocal warming so that makes our voice good when we singing. I felt very nervous when I was doing a rehearsal because I thought when we did our final rehearsal we didn’t have enough preparation to do it, especially when I have to sing solo’s in front of the committee, it feels like I want it doesn’t happen because I’m afraid if I let my friends and the committee down. But that must happen, and when we singing alhamdullilah nothing happens that we don’t want to do right, everything happens smoothly. After the rehearsal we stay in hotel near the venue, 1 room for 5 person, I’m with fadly, indra, ramles, rimba and faisal. At that time we could not sleep because we afraid of what will happens tomorrow. We talking about what we have to do tomorrow, sharing experience, strengthen each other, all the conversations that made us calm at that moment.

            On graduation day I woke up at 3.40, this feeling feels even worse than before. I am afraid of what will happens today, I even imagined the mistake I made later , even though it hasn’t happened yet. I took a shower to calm myself down, wearing clothes neatly, putting on

perfume so that the scent wears everything to make my appearance look good, I thought when my appereance was neat and good it would add to my confidence. We checked out from the hotel from the hotel 5 o’clock in the morning after finishing the dawn prayer. Graduation starts at around 7 o’clock before that we have warmed up and have been briefed by our coach, she said “we must be sure, we have to show the best, so do not care of the people who talks about us the most important thing we gave our best. It’s time for our performance. Surprisingly all goes well, and the audience also seemed to enjoy with our performance even though there are some people who don’t care about our performances. After we finish singing I’m sweating my ass off because after this I’m gonna sing solo’s, when the first verse began, my lips quivered but I’m getting used to it later and I can sing pretty good solos. The graduation ceremony is over, all excited about having performed their best performance, including me.

            Hard work paid off, we’ve been working very hard to put on our best performance. I felt good after I had practiced for the past month, although there may be a flaw in my performance. I will learned from the flaws or the mistakes, I’m pretty sure those mistakes will make my performance better than ever. I have to practice even harder, because Richelle E. Goodrich had said “Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth”.