平凡中的不平凡:Phoebe

这是我们在排练我们六十周年的庆典表演。看到同伴在辛辛苦苦地训练着的我，顿时有了启发，便拍下了这个情景... 

I was deeply inspired by our school spirit. It seems ordinary to anybody, since other schools have their own school spirit as well. However, as an RVian, this was more than just showing teamwork.
We cherish our moments together as one big RV family, even with the teachers, principal, vice principals and non-teaching staffs.

Our recent RV60 performance has shown our spirit.

"Why did we even have to perform?It's just another anniversary, no big deal..." was probably on many of our minds. But however, we learnt to not complainas we realised how important our history was. It wasn't about how many things have changed since the past. But it was the students who have changed for the better,and has not changed in spirit, even as time goes by.

I was part of the 24 Festive Drums performance and I was very honoured. Festive Drums was quite a new experience for the school, but our fast progress by learning most of our performance parts was quite a surprise to not only the principals and teachers, but also to us. We knew how to coordinate with each other well. Teamwork. Even our external instructor Mr Ong was quite satisfied. "We had little foundation and yet we could master the drums as if we were professionals who had years of practice." The hard practices were usually finished off by a debrief in which Mr Ong would always emphasise on the spirit we had together. "This performance is showcasing your spirit" he once said.

I unfortunately did not have a chance to perform in the finale with my other peers as we had 53 performers but for the second formation of drums there were only 40 drums, which meant some us could not perform. But as I watched my peers perform from the grandstand during one of the rehearsals, I knew we were that good during our opening performance.
On the actual day after the performance we all knew there could be improvements. Humility. But despite this, as we ate the popsicles the school gave us, we knew we did a good job.....

"立化的精神永远不会改变，而我们也会永远保留着立化情在我们的心中。"

那是我所得到的启发。


祝立化生日快乐！