A Highly ATP-Activated Performance

We had an awful mastery test in Statistics before the cheerdance. The items were totally aliens to me. I felt like I was guessing my choices like when you guess the numbers in the lottery. I don't want to pass yet my test paper even almost all of my classmates already did, but if I just hold on to it, it's useless. I don't know how to solve the given problems. So, I let go of my test paper, not minding anymore whatever score I'll get and started to cram in fixing myself for the cheerdance. Then I felt the butterflies invading my stomach. I was very nervous. There was like a clash of naturally occuring catastrophes, flood, tsunami, hurricane and earthquake, inside my body. I was also very very worried. We have not yet polished our dance for the ending. I greatly feared that our cheerdance will be a cheertastrophe, a big mess. And to add, I started panicking, when we were the first to perform and we weren't still ready and our props weren't totally settled yet.

"FOCUS. FORGET the worries. Be FEARLESS. And, FLAUNT those kicks, shakes, turns and steps on the CSC dancefloor!" , I said to myself as I went to my place. "No more repititions, remember. This is really is it." I reminded everyone to be always in attitude and that is to be all- out, to release the energy. And it was never forgotten. We danced like it was our last day. Truly, it was really the last, the last day where we as St. Elizabeth performs together. No more class presentations like the Play Festival. It was the last of all but the most cherished one for me because we enjoyed what we did and we really gave our best on the battlefield.

We already expected that we will be in the third place. But long and behold, we still got second and Sr. Pas even protested because for her, we are the best and must be the first. But at least, second place already meant a lot to me. Anyway, I wasn't after winning. I was after making the most out of our remaining time to bond as a class.

Indeed, we were the best because the spirit of an authentic dancer is in each one of us that even our dance was not polished, we still continued dancing and giving our best .

Dynamic. Bombastic. Explosive.

It was a highly ATP-activated performance!