Rewarded Efforts

September 7, 2008

After attending school, I went home to get my things for we are to spend overnight in Mam May’s boarding house tonight and on Saturday night, in preparation for our Street Dancing Competition on Sunday. I am kind of nervous already.

We practiced our steps while walking. Someone is bringing the radio while the others are dancing. After practicing and waiting for Dana’s van (for they won’t sleep on Mam May’s house), Milky is doing something on the bamboo pieces for our castanets. She is making everyone laugh with her silly jokes. The walking chuckie with the axe, with matching scary tune. I found Aaron very happy that time. Hehe.

We went inside the house and tried to finish our costumes, but unfortunately, we fell asleep. So we continued doing our costume on Saturday. Milky and I went to Pinagsanhan to get some “pinagkayasan” for our costume. We really felt very tired for it is so heavy and we still need to pass the hanging bridge and walk all the way to the house. Whew!

After eating breakfast, we continued doing our costume. We weren’t able to eat lunch for we need to finish our costume at 2:00 PM. I really wanted to cry that time for I could not do it perfectly. But I could not do anything, so I just let it.

We went to school without taking a bath yet. We practiced the dance while Kuya Dell and Milky are applying the spray paint in our costume. We use the castanets and perfectly done our dance. Mam May gave last minute advices to us, still hoping that we would win.

At night, we cleaned ourselves and we went outside to buy sanrio and gel. We also scouted for sunglasses because Mam May told us to have one. Alrich also treated us with pieces of bread. We also had picture taking moments by the light post. Alrich even danced in a street where we are the only ones there.

Upon arriving home, we had our hair braided. After that, we had our photo op again. (We really love the cam!) Then we slept, anxiously waiting for the sun to shine for us to showcase our talent.

ALAS SINGKO NA!! Lorena shouted. Everybody got up and prepared for the competition. We are still nervous. Then we proceeded to the Maragondon Town Plaza. While there are sounds, we just can’t help but dance.

The street dancing competition started. When we returned to the plaza, Ate Joy asked us to pray and gave pieces of advice to us. After waiting for our number to be called, we performed at the utmost energy we had to give in the exhibition. We saw Mam de Vera and Mam May very happy with our performance. After dancing and going out of the dance floor, we shouted and jumped for our efforts are at last given praise. Everybody were happy with our performance. We sat by the tree and waited for the announcement of winners.

“And the champion for Cluster B is group number… ONE! SALIW DANCE TROUPE OF CAVITE NATIONAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL!” We screamed and jumped and ran towards the stage to get our prize. We were so happy.

We went home happily and changed our clothes. We went to Jollibee to eat our lunch, using the prize money. I went home after.

I watched our performance and I was really shocked. I never knew that we could really perform that well. XD