A Praise Jam To Remember

Praise Jam 2011 (Late Post)
"ARE YOU READY TO PRAISE THE LORD?!"
That was a common shout out and question my fellow Montessorians slash Worship leaders asked us. And of course, we all responded howls of "YES!" These events all happened last October 26, 2011 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Montessori School, Recto Campus at around 10:00am. We, the 3rd Year Temperance were the first ones to present and it was quite nerve wrecking to break the solemnity of prayer and worship with a rock song we prepared. To us, we were not in favor of the song we presented because that song was quite unknown and not famous. We wanted to have awesome songs like "One way" or "Now that You're Near" that the other sections had because if we played that we were sure that the audience would jive in the groove of singing together with us. Our main objective here was to perform for the lord and for Him alone. Although we had flaws like the SUPER FAST BEATING OF THE DRUMS during the second song, Free by "Hillsong", we still managed to pull it by finishing the song till the end.

But did you know that before we were able to present this, we had lots of problems? Problems regarding on the schedules of practices, the budgets for the venues, the time, efforts, conflicts with our school work and the lack of Instruments. We were going like Crazy two days before the Praise Jam. ><' We were cramming our lives out just to practice. It was totally an event we could not alter and forget in our minds. Someday, we might think that we were quite that horrible when we sang, when we danced, when our drummer (Arthur) went out of tempo. When we get that hands on Mikhaela's video of our performance, we certainly would have regrets and revision advises to say. And from that performance that we had, we are certain to improve the next time we are going to have a Praise Jam. As they say, we learn from our mistakes.

Yet, it could not be fatal flaws and mistakes all the time. The other sections did well and of course, better than us. Below are the orders for the performances:

I. 3-Temperance
II. 4-Gentleness
III. 1-Wisdom
IV. 3-Prudence
V. 2-Generosity
VI. 1-Joy
VII. 4-Fortitude
VIII.2-Kindness

Guess who's the winner? Without a doubt, the 4-Fortitude who had a nice performance. They danced well, sang well and played well. Following them in second place WERE, I repeat WERE (2 Winners) 3-Prudence and 1-Wisdom. In Third place were YOURS TRULY (3-Temperance), 4-Gentleness and 2-Kindness. The rest in 4th Place.

Gaaah. It was an event to remember. All I could type till here,
xoxo,
Claireyoungmin
P.S I was in hurry 'cuz my sister was going to use.
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