Chinese New Year Celebrations rehearsal

Today, Darius and I had to attend the rehearsal for the Chinese New Year celebrations which was to be held tomorrow. It was meant to start at 3pm sharp but due to some delays here and there, we began the rehearsal only at 3:30pm. Darius and I were to be at the backstage helping those that were performing. We were asked to help out because our Chinese teacher had asked for volunteers to help out, and being kind souls, we agreed and there even was a 5 hour CIP reward. I had agreed without hesitation as I did not have many CIP worth of hours.

The Chinese New Year celebrations began with the Chinese Orchestra performing one of the traditional Chinese New Year songs. We had to arrange 53 chairs for them to sit and perform. The job was a very tedious one, as the plan for the arrangement of the chairs we received were all wrong than the actual thing. In the end, we had to ask for help from the Chinese Orchestra guys. Some of my classmates were among them, and they had to wear long pants which were only supposed to be meant for the upper Secondary students. I could not stop myself from laughing like a maniac when I saw how funny they looked, and it also made them look much taller than normal. I can’t wait for the year to past, so I have the privilege of wearing long pants next year, so I would stop looking so short.

I thought that the Chinese Orchestra played really well, with the whole song flowing smoothly, and no mistakes were made throughout the entire song. I hope they would play as well as they did during the rehearsal for tomorrow’s actual performance in front of the school. After they had ended their song, we had to place back all the chairs to the way we found it to get ready for the next performance. The next event was the play put up by the CLDDS, it was hilarious as two Victorians had dressed themselves up to make themselves look as though there were Chinese women. They had put on a ‘cheongsam’, high- heeled shoes, and one of them even wore a beaded necklace! I could not really understand what they were saying as they were speaking in a china accent, but I barely made it out based on their actions.

Next came the performance from our very own Science Buskers! Unfortunately, I had missed their show as I was busy helping them get the Bunsen burner they needed for the show, but in the end, they did the show without the Bunsen burner. I was looking forward to their show as they claimed they had beaten their opponents hands down, hopefully I would be able to catch it tomorrow.

That was the end of the rehearsal and it was already 5:15pm, worse still, there was to be a second rehearsal which was to end at around 6:30. I did not want to stay back till such a late time, so I went off with Darius and we went home. Watch out teachers, you will have to sing tomorrow!