I am so mad/frustrated/humiliated/disappointed/ticked off at the moment. I don’t know how else to say it.

I was a part of an ensemble for a contest and we performed today. We sang a relativley easy song, there wasn’t any impossible high notes to hit or rediculous words we had to memorize. It was only about 3 minutes long, that’s not to much to ask for is it? Apparently so.

Even though we were supposed to have six people in our group, we had five–two 1st sopranos, two 2nd sopranos, and one alto. Our alto didn’t even show up. We had to perform without her, which was horrible because our alto holds our 2nds together. There is a point in the song that the 2nds and the alto have a solo, per say, they didn’t even sing it because they didn’t know the words, so it was silent. Silent.

Our music director didn’t measure our music for the judge, so points were deducted from that, 3 of the girls sang the wrong verse at the wrong time, our alto wasn’t there, and we only performed one song because our choir director thought we weren’t ready for the other one–so we were disqualified. And it just went worse from there.

My friend called me and told me that our group got a 4, and the lowest you can get is a 5. And it sucks that a few people would just ruin the whole thing for the whole group. When I do something, I want to do it well. I don’t want to look like stupid in front of an audience.

When you take a part in a contest, or anything of this kind of sorts, you don’t just go in and expect everyone else to do all the work for you. You can’t just think along the lines of, “Oh, if I forget the words, no big deal, so-and-so will remember them!” Things like that just really tick me off.

Needless, to say, I am definatley picking a better group next year who will actually give there best for this and won’t set it at the bottom of their priority list.