Morning went as usual with lecture class, with only to find out that we have to perform on the mid-autumn festival celebration which is tomorrow!
During lunch, I spent the time sorting out the music and trying to find a way to get everyone to get it right. After what happened yesterday, we really need to work this out, least we disappoint the local students.
I figured that we were short of a drum set which would probably provide us with the needed beat to keep everyone singing correctly.
Just during lunch, it started to pour! A heavy rain suddenly engulfed the area, and that really took the heat away. However, the rain did more than what I wanted it to do. The lighting tripped the sub-station and power to the whole campus was cut off. Without power, my amplifier couldn't work and I was unable to play.
That too handicapped the practice session and resulted in a disaster. Everyone got fed up with the music as it was not complete due to the lack of the electric instruments and they blamed us for screwing up the performance. They even called for the removal of music from the item and that really angered me. To think that the effort I put in was on the brink of cancellation was really frustrating. Eventually, we cancelled the practice session, and the afternoon lesson was cancelled too and everyone was left with a whole afternoon of free time.
When the power came back, I attempted to try out the music one last time. Since the drum set was available, I called on one of my friends to play it and one of us volunteered to be the vocalist. Amazingly, the set up worked and everything came together in one piece. I finally got the hope that this performance could be done well. Eventually, all the songs turned out well and I was very impress. The issues were resolved and what's left was to arrange one final practice session the next day to ensure everyone is familiar.
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