The first six hours of school was not too boring but even after those mentally exhausting hours of study we still had another hour or so of Chinese remedial. I only got to eat my lunch at about two but that's when I already get really hungry as I don't eat during recess. At least I got to skip about half and hour of practice because of the extra Chinese classes.
When I got to the practice room, the other members were already practicing on their designated seats. I hastened towards the side of the room to put my erhu which is the instrument I play and my bag down at the side of the room. I tuned the strings of my erhu and then got to my seat. I then realised that there was actually not many people as many of them who could not make it on Wednesdays. I took out my score sheet and put it on the music stand. We were practising the New Year songs and Joshen, the Section Leader of my group was the conductor.
I felt that our performance today was one of the worst as we had too little people to cover for the mistakes we made and to add to the volume. We also worked on our stage presentation.For example, we practised to stand when the conductor entered the stage, which in our case, was just enter the room. At about 3.20pm,we were given a break and I made use of it by playing other instruments. After the short break, we continued practising but that time we played SYF songs. We stopped shortly after. Today's practice was also one of the shortest I've experienced as it probably started early. After practice, we were de-briefed and I felt relieved. I played quite well during the practice but we still didn't do as well as other times because of the lack of manpower. I realised today that that more people means more power and thus better results. Hope we can put up a good show during the performance!
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