Wednesday, September 18, 2013
TROPICALE
Well this is going to be a long post, and I'm gonna have a lot of fun writing it and reading it over and over again. BEFORE MIDNIGHT OMFG.
Final proper day of school (not even). Slept past 1am last night, dying over warm and fuzzies which I'm gonna have to do now omg and then packing my bag took so long, just kept freaking out about the amount of stuff to carry and how much of it I was gonna end up forgetting/losing.
Ran around before roll call with Sarah, bless her, helping me take polaroids and we took our last roll call photos sigh, I'll miss them.
Grade act stuff period one! Took the whole period as planned and it was super hard to remember Treasure. Anyway, things got stressful afterwards when everyone disappeared and there was nobody to practice with except for Mr Marshall LOL. But thank the heavens, finally rounded almost everybody up for Miley and went over formation etc which was intensely confusing but it came together. Then gathered Fox as well so that was a relief. Had to run out and buy gear for hip hop which I barely knew choreo to looool.
Fast forward. People not performing underestimate how long it takes to get changed and ready for performances omfg seriously so stressful. First act for senior concert was hips which was good, had lots of energy for that. Audience was sad though cause unlike last year with all our friends, who this year were now all backstage getting ready, it was a pretty empty and quiet audience. I think after that was Miley, which um looked like a disaster from where I stood cause Suk forgot her moves LOL but the end was good, even though I was twerking to myself. Then it was hip hop which was just full of collisions while getting into formations but surprisingly it looked good, particularly because it's all a collective view that you have to take in. Then Fox was last and I was close to crying because I was so damn hot and sweaty and expanding from the heat that my jeans barely got on. But Fox went well too, except for Anika's mess up in the front line HAHA. Grade act was kind of bad too because barely knew Cali Girls and no one knew Treasure but OH WELL.
I've eaten like, one spread out meal throughout the day, literally fainting with Carla after school on our hunt for food. Plus our bodies were aching after the adrenaline faded. Sat outside scarfing down food and mildly freaking out about graduation. Then we moved to the nice and sunny oval and idk Nayomi, Anika and I kinda lost our minds there, crawling around and singing coco banana HAHA and screaming with laughter at this mating dance some bird was doing omfg and yeah it was lots of fun.
Well, if we thought the audience for senior concert was sad, nothing compared to walking out on stage and seeing the crowd with half the chairs empty. It was so depressing, what even happened okay WHY OUR GRADE it was so damn packed last year.
Grade act first cause Lane had to leave early, sigh, it was not a good start to the show. Fox was my first which went really well and Erica was so fucking cute in that fox onesie omg. Plus, wasn't hot yet so the jeans went on normally LOL.
Hip hop was last and wow it looked good, everyone for the big movements were in sync so thank god for that and yeah, short and sweet.
Intermission frantically finding Marshall and going over steps one last time, as well as convincing Burke to be our taxi man.
Miley started off the second act! Suk still didn't know her moves LOL but I was having too much fun and was just super happy to hear everyone on stage singing aloud. Just had my fun twerking in the end and sticking tongues out and WHOO I'm really happy with how it all came together. Plus Marshall and Clem looked adorable.
Last act was our hips one, which was just so tiring because we were all wiped out by the end, plus it was breaking the sadness from the chick who sung True Colours before us. But all our friends managed to get into the hall so we had a lot of cheering which is always encouraging.
Omfg loved Marshall's singing act, even though nearly went deaf from Burke's drumming but Hughson is so beautiful LOL.
Last song was Treasure and then after it ended, we just awkwardly stood on stage before deciding to run off down the aisle looool. Yeah, packed up and took more photos and cheers and it was just super sad... I didn't want to leave because then it would really hit me that things were over.
I bawled once I got into the shower. Figured it was a good time to sing the grade song. It was going well till the second verse at 'the hardest part is over' and I lost it so bad. Then I couldn't stop laughing because I kept singing awfully while crying. This is what tomorrow is gonna be like.
Now I guess it's time to proceed with and finish warm and fuzzies, and pray that my blouse dries and that I don't get a cold from tonight. I'm sure I've forgotten things worth mentioning tonight but I must publish this by midnight IT MUST SHOW UP AS PUBLISHED ON A WEDNESDAY.
It was the best night. Everything came together, it was worth all the stress and time we all put into each act so I'm really grateful for everyone's participation even when I was being a complete bitch, which was a lot of the time. But all that matters is that it happened and we did it and we had fun and we looked pretty good so yes, success.
11:58 PM