Speech Choir and Ignite Competition
Ah the Speech Choir competition, so stressful. We didn’t
have that much time to prepare for this competition since we had the floats to
worry about and we also had projects to handle, but we still managed to do our
very best.
We only had at least two weeks (?) to spare for practice and
during those two weeks, most of the class aren’t really present for practice
which leads us to accomplishing absolutely almost nothing. It’s a good thing
that we finally got out stuff together and worked as a team.
Most of our problems were because we had nowhere to practice
and we don’t want to risk other blocks seeing our presentations and stealing
our movements, so we had to look for other places. This leads us to another
blockmate’s home – which isn’t really that near and this causes yet another
problem because another block that consists of only 6-7 students is merged with
us and though it’s fine with us (ABMA 153) to go to other places because it’s
already familiar to us, it’s not fine with the merged block because they haven’t
been there before.
These problems could be resolved though, since we still
practice for the speech choir during class hours which makes up lost time they
consumed not being able to practice anywhere else.
Now on the day of the presentation, I think we weren’t
really all that nervous, we just wanted it over with. Now don’t get me wrong,
we are all excited to perform but we also know that we wouldn’t win against ECE
and CPE since they won last time during the chants and cheers competition a
while back.
And our predictions were right, ECE won the second place and
CPE won the first place. Now we’re not being salty or anything here, we’re all
happy for them. This experience serves as a lesson for us to learn, we had to
just try harder the next time around. Besides, two of our blockmates won third place and second place for the Ignite Speech and the Integrity Speech
respectively.