Every morning, the choir sings before assembly. I'm sure everyone in the school knows that by now. The original idea was to practice during common breaks to improve our songs for competition. But now we do it during breaks + mornings. At first, practicing on our own really did help, we learnt a lot from the j2s, and we had a lot of fun as well, laughing at stupid mistakes and crappy stuff that we did. Well, haha, I guess now it's still fun, but I really wonder what the purpose of practicing so much is now. Every time we meet, I know there are only 2 ways the session can go, having organized and co-ordinated so many. One is we have fun singing together, the camaraderie- with people who all love singing to express ourselves. But I realize we don't learn much, or really improve. And that's usually the case. Now, when I ask them for a song to sing, it's not really- "Let's sing this because we need to improve", but "Let's sing this because it's a fun song, or it's my favourite song". As a j1, I know we all sing to the standard of 'good enough to please our seniors', but we still have fun together. So now, what's the point? Are we waking up earlier everyday to make our seniors happy and psychologically influence them to think that we do very well during rehearsals? Or do we in the first place? To tell the truth, we don't give our best during these informal practices. Even I find myself out of focus sometimes. I know we can do, because we have done it. But only during rehearsals, when we don't really have a choice but to do well in front of our instructor. But then again, if we become too serious, the practices may lose their fun. The reason for wanting to do it will be different, but still positive, if you consider having fun good. But if we tell them directly, let's sing with our best efforts and strive to improve each time, must concentrate, must do it correctly, must remember what the instructor told us, cannot make the same mistakes. Lines heard all too often. Then I can literally feel the 'great, not again' aura from all of them, but then, we do strive for our best after that. We really want to give to the choir. So, if we do that every practice, we'll probably win every competition. I hope that's the purpose that every j1 has, to win for the choir.
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