Happy and relieved...!

Today marks the end of my 2-day choir camp in school. After all the training (along with all the dread), I see it has paid off. The kids sang well. I can hear them improving rehearsal after rehearsal. After the concert, the colleagues who were there (including P and VP) all came up to me and congratulated the choir for a good performance. They said they all heard improvement. Credit definitely must be given to my choir instructor for this.

The only regret I have after the concert is that the kids still have not learnt performance etiquette. They still don't know how to smile in front of their audience. They are not serious about the performance at all. They don't know how to engage themselves fully into the music, although I do see some of them really putting in the effort. The choir still has a lot to learn.

But having said that, I must give credit to my student leaders for running almost the whole camp, for planning the games, for pep-talking to the choristers. This batch of leaders are a very able bunch. I will really hate to see them all go 2 years later... :(

After receiving many positive feedback (from students and teachers), I'm very happy. I just felt so relieved that everything is over, and everything went well. All thanks to my choir teacher-in-charge who took care of EVERYTHING! I hardly did much. All also all the other colleagues who helped do the AV, the photography, the seating arrangement, the use of the library... and for all their presence and support! I was even happier to see ex-JYians coming back to support the choir, even those who weren't from choir. And am even more appreciative of the fact that they still came even when it was a paying concert, and most of these kids come from needy families.

Am on a concert high - it's interesting to feel that way not from a performer's or an audience's point of view, but from the "organiser's" point of view. The concert high feeling just feels different. Think it's more of a relief than anything else...

Hope this will inspire me to be more passionate about my CCA, despite the calibre of my students, and to (try to) build a better working relationship and communicate better with my instructor.

Finally... my holidays have started... I can finally R&R!