My holiday basically consisted of homework and CCA. I was in Choir and we had a concert on the 30th of November. Before that, starting from the end of End of Year Exams, we had started practicing every Tuesday and Friday. CCA only got more tiring after the holidays started, with a almost 10 hour practice twice every week with an hour of Physical training and one and a half hour lunch at twelve.
At the start of the holidays, I was very sick and tired of choir, and I hated it a lot, especially the one hour Phyisical training as I was never good in sports. My batch mates and I complained a lot about the long practices and that we could not make it for many activities we planned with our classes and friends. We were singing the same pieces everyday and always got scolded as we were not singing up to their expectations. We went home everyday all burned out and unhappy, after a day of being criticized despite trying our best.
After a few weeks, we started bonding with each other within our batch. When I was running at the back, a few of my batch mates slowed down their pace just to support and run with me. Although I was still last, I felt a need to try even harder than before to 'thank' my batchmates in a way. Practices got better as we bonded, and we shared our problems and tried to help each other in any way possible, be it encouragement or sharing with them techniques. We went for batch lunches and batch outings, and made a lot of memories. We still get criticized, yes, but we pull through, together, which is what bonds us together, even more than ever.
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