Hello there my read.cash family this is my first time to write and I am newbie here. I hope you will bear my grammar and my writing skills. I will share here my first time ever experience in my teens phase. What am I going to share is all my first time.

The SK Council of our Barangay created a program which is Project Guapa (Guadalupe Performing Arts Workshops) with the theme of "Developing Talents and Empowering Youth Through Training and Showcasing Talents Amid of the Pandemic". It includes Singing Workshop and Dance Workshop with 12 sessions each and it is for free.

I grabbed this one in a life time opportunity, it can boost my self confident. My mother signup for me without my consent because she knows that with my personality I will not join for I am too shy. After she signup and the organizers call my mom to notify that there will be a meeting that's the time she told me that she signup me on my behalf. And I don't have choice anymore but to attend the meeting with the coaches.

The next photo is the meeting with our coaches and we sang one by one so that they will know what type of voice we had if we belong to soprano, alto, tenor or bass. That is me and Coach Necie. By the way our coaches are well known in the field of singing here in Cebu City. Coach Necie already competed in "Tawag ng Tanghalan" in the show It's Showtime before. I am so nervous because I don't know anyone there, and the first ones to sing are all good it seems they are professional already. Maybe they have been exposed already not like me.

And to make the story short we completed all the sessions and after that we had our first ever recording, it was my first time again to enter a studio and record a song like a pro. That is me the one who wears black dress, and I forgot to tell I belong the Soprano team that is my co-singers. We did also a music video together with dancers.

And the Big Night finally came, we held it in a hotel because the audience are limited only. Who can watch there is only the Project Guapa staff, SK Council team and we the performers. I am so excited with the Big Night and with too much excitement the night before the performance I got sick. I get so depressed that I took 2 medicines so that I can easily recover because I don't want my effort and time in practicing will go to waste. Luckily next morning I got better, eventhough my mom told me not to go because shes worried and our call time is 9am and so I took 2 medicines again.

The concept of the show is similar to ASAP. We arrived at the hotel around 10am but the show will start at 7:00 PM, it feels like we are a pro we did our last rehearsal together with our dancers, we also have our make-up artist with us. We rest a little bit took our lunch and after that get ready for the Big Night.

That is me I am so nervous up there.

That is my co-singers my left is Shanen, from my right is Karylle and then Tessa. We sang "Butter" by BTS.

And end it with a bang. Our coach were so happy and proud of what we did that night.

And that's were my FIRST EXPERIENCE ends. I am so proud of myself because I never thought I could do that, and I am so thankful to my mother for giving me such opportunity to experience such thing.

I do hope you enjoy reading my first article, right now I feel happy that I was able to write an article. Congrats to myself. Keep safe everyone.