Oh Boy!

This weekend we had our first show choir competition for Happiness. It was called Supernova. Everyone seemed to have mixed feelings on it. Many were excited to show others what we had got or even to perform in their first competition. Others were nervous to see how we would do. The night before when the prep show choirs performed, all of us from the other choirs came to support our prep group. They did a great job and ended up getting first place in prep that night. Everyone was so happy. I think some varsity people were nervous to follow up after our prep had gotten first.

The next morning we came early to watch our freshman group. They put out a lot of effort and I really think their show could be something this year. They all have the drive to really be great. They ended up only getting second out of the two groups there though.

The thursday before we had performed our entire show for our audience of friends and family. Our show choir director was sick and couldn't make it there though. He was still a little sick on saturday but he pulled through and came at ten for the day. We all knew that this day round performance had to be amazing right away. We were competing against eleven other amazing show choirs that all had a lot to give. All of us were just worried about getting into finals let alone where we actually placed if we got in.

When we got out on the stage, I knew we all had to pull it together. We had to really sell our show and all we could do. After leaving the stage we all felt generally good about our entire show. We knew not everything was perfect but we set out to have fun and perform and that was what we accomplished.

All of us went to day round results. We ended up making finals! As we were making our way back to our rooms, there were rumors of what groups placed where. I did not want to listen to everyone, since I just wanted to find out from our own director. The wait was such a long time and everyone was talking about the rumors. There were rumors that we came in first and that we came in seventh in finals.

When our director came in. Everyone was so excited that we just made finals that some people were crying. Our director told us that we had... guess what? We were ranked 1st in day rounds! There was excitement and talking everywhere. We had just beat out eleven amazing groups and set fear in all of them that Happiness can be the best.

That night we ended up going last, knowing that every other group wanted to really see how good we were. We all knew we still had to bring it, and we were not a guarantee to get the place we got in the day round. There were new judges and it was a different mind set going in to the performance. I was really afraid that everyone was not going to fight as hard as they could be.

The groups all performed before us and had stepped up their game. As we went on to the stage, I really felt important and no matter what happened the day round had really made us feel like we could all accomplish what we wanted and had worked hard for.

Right after our performance we went to the gym to see the results for finals. Our group knew it had been a much better performance then the day round and was really hyped up. At that point I don't think we cared what place we were going to get, we were just in the moment and enjoying it. As the results came we ended up getting second to the varsity group from Urbandale. I never saw their show, but they usually are the group to beat. Even though we did not get first we still were proud and excited that we had beat out ten other amazing groups that day.

This just gives us something to work for and get better to be the best. I can not wait for our other competitions to see what our group will really do and if we will keep this fight to win in our minds when we perform.