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Senegal House

Olamide Abimbola performing a solo for Senegal Reflections On
House, singing a mashup Never Enough & Feeling the result was
My First Glee really breathtaking.
Good By Lorren Allred & Michael Buble

Competition

lee was an experi- For me, there was a lot of
ence. From prepar- pressure and tension during
This was my first time witnessing
G ing songs to actually the glee competition, as ev-
a GLEE competition, and it was ex-
performing them, it took a ery house was eager to put
tremely exciting! Naturally, I felt a bit
lot of effort from everyone in on a show that the school
disappointed when Senegal didn’t
their respective houses. would never forget. I, how-
win, as we had been practising for
ever, felt nervous as it was
over a week before the event. You
The sweat, tears and sore my first time representing
wouldn’t understand the things we
throats that went into put- Congo House in the Solo
went through! We changed our sec-
ting on a show that every- category.
ond song almost 8 times! Anyway,
one would enjoy was not at
other houses had been equally prac-
all easy, but the result was Even though it was a really
ticing too and Benue House deserved
really breathtaking. nerve-wracking experience,
to win. Thank God Senegal was not
just standing on that stage
last anyway.
We had a mix of performanc- and feeling the music was
es: Benue House’s story- enough for me to feel like I
telling group song, Congo’s did the best I could for my
To be honest there were many mis-
very energetic ensemble, house. And I’m proud of it.
takes in the second song. For exam-
Senegal’s gut-wrenching
ple, one of my friends froze on stage,
Solo performance, as well as
but it was not really noticeable. The Volta’s vibey stage perfor-
CLICK HERE part that brought our score down mance.

was ‘Diamonds’ by Rihanna. It just did
TO WATCH not have as much energy as ‘Some- -Haneefa Mohammed Yusuf
where Only We Know’ by Kean. The
YEAR 10 CONGO
only reason we came third place was
OLAMIDE’S SOLO because of Olamide. He really put up

a show with his solo! I just hope next
PERFORMANCE year will have a better fortune for
Senegal House.

-Abeeha Fatima Atta

YEAR 7 SENEGAL

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