PEPA PART 1

 PEPA posters of some of the girls in Hip Hop

For PEPA I was in the hip hop group. Our tutors (Tamaki College students) Ma, Nella, Ester, Pa and Jerome were awesome at dancing. I wanted to be just like them. They had the skills as well as confidence. When I finish this, not only do I want to walk away with the skills of dancing but I also want to walk away with confidence.

When our tutors taught us the routine I was too shy to dance in front of people. Everyone was actually. Instead Ester encouraged us to just dance and if we do a mistake just improvise it. This helped me, a little bit. We kept practicing and everyone got better and better by the minute.

It was our final practice. Everyone was going hard, just to show off in front of Ms M (Director). When we finished our last practice Ms M was proud of us. She was also proud of our tutors.

It was time for our first performance in front of our NE- year 6. Now was the time for everyone to be nervous. "It can’t be that bad performing in front of little kids that hardly know me" I said nervously. I went through the dance moves inside my head. “5,6,7,8...”

Suddenly our music came on. Jay’Lee told me to hurry up and come in line. As I marched like a soldier to the front of the line, I looked up then looked straight down. To Be Continued...