First I arrive to North Central at the crack of dawn to load the bus and travel to wherever the competition is being held that day. This week it was Mooresville. All the Descants pile on the bus and we pass bags of bagels and water bottles around and complain about how early it is and how tired we are. Finally we arrive to Moorseville to be directed to the room which will become our home for the day. Our hosts decorated our room with a blue/star theme. They even gave us bubbles! That was maybe the best decoration I've seen at a competition.
We have just enough time to grab some food, and then start on the 2 hour process of getting ready before our warm up time. Girls use up entire bottles of hairspray in hopes of making a poof so large on the top of their head that the judges could see it from Mars. We work and work to get the perfect smoky eye, and apply more bronzer, blush, and mascara than we use for the rest of days of the year combined. Finally we glue the false lashes on and our hair and make-up is complete. Its now time to put on our costumes. We spend the next 45 minutes with moms adjusting our spangly dangly things, taping up our shirts so our longlines don't show on stage and putting on last minute deodorant and fuscia lipstick.
Our hosts gather us out in the call and we walk through Mooresville High School on our way to warm ups. We performed at 3. It went really well! Last week I had some costume malfunctions and messed up on some choreography, so it was a big improvement for me. After the performance we went to the viewing room to watch how we did and take notes for if we make it to finals.
At this we go back "home" and its a freenzy to get changed and find our dresses in the big heap that they ended up in after our costume change and hang everything back up. I really don't like this part. Plus, at this point everyone smells really bad. It's gross. After we get all changed our group breaks up and we can eat or try to take a nap or watch other groups perform or sit around and just hang out. I did all of this with the exception of the nap. A few hours later they announced who made finals in the gym. Me, Virginia, Gabby, and Maddie decided to eat through the announcement instead of waiting around in the gym. We knew it was good news when 30 girls in blue Descants hoodies came running through the cafeteria scrambling to get back to the room and yelling "We have 20 minutes! Get dressed! We're first!".
We had made it to finals and would be the first women's group to perform. We quickly changed back into our outfits and made our way back to the warm up room, even more nervous than before. We sang through everything, and our director gave us some last minute pointers and pep talks. It was time to perform.
I love the feeling of a showchoir rush. The feeling you get when you leave the stage knowing you left everything you had to give up there. Youre sweaty and gross and your make-ups smeared, but you have this intense rush of energy. Its so great. After the finals performance it was time to do some more waiting....and waiting....and waiting. Several Diet Cokes, a few mixed choirs, and a great solo performance later, it was finally time to head back to the gym for the results. I always feel really nervous at this time. Its like when you know you gave everything you have and you've worked so hard it would just be the best feeling ever knowing you've won, and it all payed off.
This is what Grand Champions look like.
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