Chants and Cheers Competition

The Chants and Cheers competition

Yesterday, Feb 5^th, was our Chants and Cheers Competition. A competition where there are 6-7 rival blocks competing against each other. Here, we showcase our block’s strengths, hardships we’ve overcome and over all, our unity though chants that rhyme, much like those cheerleaders on television that we usually see.

Now, our journey through the past few weeks wasn’t easy, during the first few days or maybe even the first 2 weeks, we were all pretty chill because we’ve already come up with a first and second stanza and so we didn’t bother adding in a few more. 

The next few days we were just practicing the tune we were going to use for the chant. And still, at this point we were all still relaxed and focused on other random things. A few days more, things started to heat up a bit because some of our blockmates had other things to do than practice for the competition and of course, our leader was not so happy about it. Their excuse was “But we don’t have anything to do as of now, we’d rather go home than waste time” now that’s not what’s exactly said at that time, but it’s somewhere along those lines. But things simmered down after a while and everyone was okay again.

Fast forward to a week before the competition, we finally finished a full chant which consists of at least 7 or 8 stanzas. All we had to worry about was the tune, which we finally figured it together, and the actions that we were supposed to do while performing.

Now the day before the actual competition, we had just started to practice our movements or actions, and obviously we didn’t have much time.

During the day of the competition, we all wore the same camouflage type shirt and had face paint on our cheeks. And when it was finally our turn, I could sense that everyone was nervous, well so was I.

When we were on stage I kind of felt that the emanating nervousness diminished because we all just started to live in the moment and we all did our very best and showed everyone how united as one we all are.

Though, sadly, we failed to claim a spot in the top 3. But we all had fun during those few weeks, we found our strengths within one another, and finally we all grew closer to each other.

And I think that’s enough for everyone.