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KERALITE  APRIL 20 20 35

The Scariest Day of

My Life

“I’m so ready,” I said to my friends.

My friends and I had just gotten ready. We were so
tempted to practice one more time but we didn’t.
We were about to go in front of 500 people. “We’ve
been practicing a year for this guys-we can do this!”

When those curtains rose, a big rush of adrenaline
Sreekesh Panicker
ran through me. “I can do this,” I quietly said to
myself. I was trying so hard not to mess up but
guess what happened? I messed up. My stick fell
out of my hand! Earlier that day, when I was
practicing, the same thing had happened and I told
myself that this was just practice it wouldn't
happen to me on stage. But instead, what
happened? I dropped the sticks again! I quickly
picked them up and started again. I hoped my
teacher hadn't seen, but he had. He looked at me
and winked. I guess we were doing pretty good!

He was in good mood. I wondered what my friends
were thinking. Maybe some of them had messed up
too because I know I did. I could tell we were almost
done because we'd been drumming for a very long
time.

With a Chenda concert, there is always a big ending
and ours had one too. It was the biggest finish we
had ever done. Of course, I had known this was
coming, but it was still surprising how fast we went.
I could hardly keep up, but at the same time, I
couldn’t stop in front of everyone either. Bam, bam
, bam and then BOOM! Suddenly, we stopped and I
realized that we were done. I looked at my friend