Now here comes the most important part, which is my musical Bye Bye Birdie at Bishop McCort High.
Looking back at the beginning of my musical, I feel so lucky that I had never thought about quitting it this year. Because if I did so I would never have made friends with my best friends in America!
I remember I was a little worried about going to the musical practices everyday not only because they are really long and time-consuming, but also because I was afraid that I was going to sit all by myself watching other people talking to their friends and having fun. That was the biggest concern of mine at the time. So one day I went to the musical practice after school and talked to Olivia, and everything changed amazingly and forever. I met all these wonderful kids and became good friends with them and OH MY GOSH I could not say enough about how much fun I had with those guys and how much I love them because it is all countless and invaluable. I think and I will miss them during summer in China, I just know it.
SO back to musical, I loved it. The practice was always hard and tiring. we had to do one song for millions of times and still failed to do it right; we had to remember the dancing part and the lyric part together and messed everything up and do them again and again; we had to ...... We had to do so many things that it makes me so proud of my cast and myself that finally after all the ups and downs we made it! We really broke a leg!! Last Monday was our first make-up rehearsal, I was very excited and somehow a little bit nervous. I don't know why though, maybe it was because it felt like it was a real show. Here comes a funny part. During telephone hour, which is a song of our musical, I was laughing during the whole scene and could not sing a word, not even A WORD! I was so crazy that I even messed up my steps and everything and I think I stepped on Olivia's foot, too. Later I asked her if she felt it she said no, I think she was nervous at that time as well so that she didn't even pay attention to her foot. I get excited by typing the things happened during musical =D
Last Thursday we did our first show. It was packed. I was in fan club so I had to go on stage to sing a little love song to Conrade with my friends and we were extremely nervous. We were holding each other's hands and tell each other nothing was a big deal, yet we were shaking altogether. I loved it! We went on the stage eventually and we sang our little love song perfectly and we pretended that we felt peaceful and professional. After the auditorium door was closed, we were jumping and screaming without sounds and scuttled down to the changing room and told everybody that we did it and we loved it. That was amazing. I could hardly forget that part. Even though we had some technical problems, I was so sure and confident that we did an awesome job through the reaction from the audience. " Oh my gosh they loved our show!!!" " YEAH!!!!!"
We thanked our teacher and directors for the hard work they had done for us and for the show on Saturday. Personally the show on Saturday was my favorite one because of the thanksgiving scene!! And we went to Megan's house for the cast party. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. However, the reason was not their excellent food or drink or the dance party. My favorite part was the incident after the Award section: "Slap That Bitch"! Seniors all stood up and led us to slap " those bitches", a little bit awkward. Don't take me wrong though, here comes the reason. The very next day was our last day of musical and after that we had another party with all the staff and parents. When MS.Mack hugged Mrs. K and cried for her leaving and her support, I saw Liz, one of the seniors, cry. I was touched. Even though we always say that we hate all the directors, we truly appreciate their hard work and their teachings. Liz's tears made me love my cast even more because from it I felt something called Spirit. I can still remember her shouting " slap that bitch" in her red McCort hoodie and her crying at the party, I think she is just so so so cute.
Oh there are so many things I want to say but failed to type them into words. There is a Chinese phrase saying:" There something which can only be understood through hearts." I think that should be applied here. I have too many things to say, yet I can not say a word; I have too many thanks to thank, yet I can only keep them in my heart; I have too much to tear, and I will let them settle down. I've always been hating to say love because I thought love was such a big word that it was not something i could understand or use easily. However, I found it is such a beautiful word that I should say it aloud when I feel it; that I should shout it to the people I love; that I should love my dearest people as solidly as my word is. I love my musical. I LOVE MY FRIENDS.
