Stage Challenge Recount

Last Tuesday I competed with some of the girls and boys that came mostly from Melville high school and some from Melville intermediate. We competed against 13 other schools around Hamilton. We had trained for 8 weeks but it was worth it anyway because we got to see their practices in the morning when we got there.

Around 5:30 all the schools were practicing one school at time on stage, they got to practice  3 times until 1 of the members that were in charge came out and he said “ it’s time to get this party started so clap those hands and party like you never did before”. So we danced around for 4 songs and then another member came on stage and she said “don’t waste your energy yet cause there are more things that I got to say. Like there is a finding hunt, dancing competitions, stack the elephants on top of each other, stack a pyramid of elephants and do the hula in a hula-hoop”.

When the time was around 6:00 pm it was time for all the leaders to run onto a white star that had a number at the back of the other side. When our leader picked up her star, she got the last number 13. The first member came out again and he said “leaders do you want to know why you got that number?”. We said  “that is the number you are in so if your number 1 your first on stage and perform in front of thousands of people and if you have the number 13 you are last".  So Melville was performing last on stage which was a good thing cause we had heaps of time to get a rest, we could also go and watch them practice over and over and they were pretty cool.

   

When it was around 6:30, all the parents were coming to watch the performance so all the schools had to leave the stage and go to their group and get ready to perform on stage at 7:00. Melville didn’t need to worry cause we were last.  We all started to prepare except me because I had a fast blood rush coming out of my nose because I had stage fright. Mary who was in the war group took me to Saint Johns that was only around the corner. When we got to Saint Johns, they gave me some medication to take whenever I get stage fright. If my nose starts to bleed even faster I had to take my medication before I went on stage.

Now it was our turn to go on stage. As we were going everybody said that they will give their best and have a great time. We did and we never made a mistake. When we were finished all of the schools had to leave again so the judges could make their decisions to see what school gets the golden CD. All the schools came out and sat on the seats in front of the stage. We sat in front of all the schools. When they pronounced all their certificates, we had got 13 out of 14 certificates( because backstage made one little mistake). When the last lady came up with the golden CD inside a frame she was about to announce the winning school. We saw her mouth form into a M and we knew it was us and we were right and we won. Melville was yelling and screaming and happy crying saying that we won.

When it was finished 6 different schools came up to us and did the Haka and all the boys and girls from our group joined and did the Haka in front of nick our sound boy and Cian our leader and MS Christen plus MS Bleaken and our helpers. When everything was picked up and the rubbish was in the bin I got dropped off from a lady named Mareta who was Marcae’s mum which he was in the war group aswell. As I got home around 12:00, I crashed right on the couch.