Chiquita on the Start of the Season

And so it begins. Hell week. The worst/best week of my year. I am a tech for both Happiness (the varsity group, if ya didn't know) and Protege (the prep group, if ya didn't know), so this week will be especially busy for me. We have practice for one group or the other every day this week, except Thursday. Why not Thursday, you ask? No, its not to give us a break, we have a concert! I'm actually pretty excited. The dessert concert will be the first time we put the whole show out there for an audience. Its a big test for us. Then on Saturday, we get up bright and early to be at Kennedy at 4am to load the bus and head to Viterbo. Protege performs at 10:30, so as soon as we get there we'll need to get the trailer unloaded and start getting things in order for the show. After we do Protege's show, we'll go to critique, then we'll be free to do whatever (sleep, socialize, etc.) until Happiness performs at 3:30pm. Then when they're done we'll head to their critique, then wait around to hear about finals! I'm sure we'll make finals, we always do. So then we'll get our time for finals, (I'm not sure how they're deciding who goes when at this competition, because we've never been there before) then we'll do our show again. After that, there might be more groups to go, so we'll watch them if there are, then we'll go to awards.
All in all, it should be a really interesting competition. The line up is good. The groups performing include: Linn-Mar “In Step”, Linn-Mar “10th Street Edition”, Brodhead “Guys & Dolls”, Chippewa Falls “Chi Hi Harmonics”, Milton “Choralation”, Cedar Rapids Kennedy “Happiness, Inc.”, Cedar Rapids Kennedy “Protégé”, Xavier “Xhilaration”, Burlington “B*JAZZled”, Madison East “Encore”, and Westside “The Amazing Technicolor Show Choir”. Word on the street is that Linn Mar's varsity group, 10th Street Edition, has improved a lot in the last couple of weeks. 10th Street Edition always has a good show, so hopefully I'll make it in time to see their's after we do our show. (They lock the doors, so if you don't get there on time, they won't let you in.) Omaha Westside looks to be our biggest competition according to predictions on showchoir.com. I've never seen them. Apparently they are really good. Happiness won't be able to see them, unless they go a few groups away from us at finals, because they go right before us during the day round. I looked them up on youtube, and I saw that they did "Someone to Fall Back On", a ballad that Protege did a couple of years ago. It was pretty good, not that I know much about vocals and things of the like. Xavier will also be there, and I've heard there show is good this year, but we'll have to see. Four days!!