Not only with laugh the loudest, we have the same wavelength too, most of us are passionate in what we are doing and always wanting to do/be the best. The Teachers' Concert is a prove of how well we have worked together and how we were receptive to different ideas given and how all of us wanting to deliver and do the best considering the kids had to pay to watch us perform.
The whole process prior to the event had been exciting and fun. A person came up with the idea to do Bollywood dance, everybody got excited, one person said lets do to the song of Jaiho and that further added to our excitement. We met during the first week of the school holiday to brainstorm and learning the steps, we even brought our kids during practices, while they jumped into the pool, we danced but still keeping an eye on them. Despite that we had the PTK exam to sit, we still met up after that to learn our dancing steps.
We did not get to meet up after that as everyone was going off for a holiday and busy with whatnot hence I had written all the steps into a piece of paper and kept it inside my handbag. The first 2 weeks of school, had been a busy week as we had to finish up marking the exam papers and keying the marks and preparing for Open Day. We met again 2 weeks before the event and when I took the paper out, I could not decipher what I have written since it was all crumpled up. Thus we made some adjustments to the steps however this time around we did not manage to get everyone to come for practices as one was busy with her cheerleaders and one had a course to attend to.
We met up after school hours with only the 3 or the 4 of us doing our routine and it was a really good work out as we seldom do our exercises too anyway. We laughed when we couldn't remember our steps and we improvised on some of the steps so that our booties will move more. We agreed to rent our costumes and during the fitting session, we were being silly and laughed hysterically at each other. It was a fun day though one of us was so stressed up for the Hari K the next day.
The week of the event, some of us were busy with the Musical Night preparation but we still made time to practice and we only got everyone to come to practice a day before the Teachers Concert itself, but most of us came well prepared.
On the day itself,we were all nerves as we were worried that we might forget our steps or it will be a blunder, but my team members assured each other that we will be fine and we are good at covering up our mistakes by smiling and continue doing our moves. We had the cheerleaders to help with our make-up and putting on fake eyelashes and that moment was hilarious too, we got more excited when we put on our costumes and we had one last practice in the Wawasan Room.
We were called to the backstage at 11.30 am and everyone there looked really good in their attire, all made up until we couldn't even recognize some of our colleagues. Hearing the shouts and applause from the students made us more nervous but at the same time looking forward to get it over and done with. We requested to perform second so we can watch other teachers doing their performance and enjoying the rest of the show. I knew my team members depended on me and I was restless, walking up and down the hall way, playing the steps in my mind and suddenly when we were called to the stage I was in my element and we were all out doing our dance. We called ourselves the 'Pussycat Mommas'.
The response that we got was overwhelming, some students actually gave us a standing ovation, we were jubilated!!! We truly enjoyed our moment of glory after that when we discovered that others enjoyed it too.We have been getting positive feedback so far. Pure satisfaction!!! We loved every moment of it, but to have an encore? No way. Other performances were equally great too especially the Nobody dance, The Pontianak Dance, the solo singers, the fashion show. Everyone was a real sport.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for making us feel special and we hope the RM5 was well spent.
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