During early Summer 2018, I participated in the annual local Columbus Asian Festival along with my group of friends. This festival showcases a variety of cultures and different performing arts associated with some of these cultures. Me and my friends had decided to participate in this and I was honestly very nervous as well as excited. After my surgery in 2017, I had never participated in any activities that would strain my back until we made this decision in Spring of 2018. Me and my friends have a huge interest in Kpop (Korean Pop Music) and there were certain songs that had amazing choreography that we had wanted to learn. Although we have an interest in this genre of music, we have never actually danced much to these songs, making this our first big public performance. Our practices caught the attention of our coordinator of the place we volunteer for and after a brief discussion, we decided to perform at the Asian Festival showcasing Korean Pop Music, which has been an increasing trend that has spread throughout the whole world.
After weeks of practice, we finally reached the day of the performance and we were all nervous performing in front of such a big crowd. But once we hit the stage, we all let the adrenaline take over and just had lots of fun. We performed twice and after our last performance, we felt great satisfaction after seeing how we managed to pull through this event without any issues. I bought this little toy puppy from the festival as a memory of everyone’s hard work in allowing this to happen and also as commemoration of our first big public performance with many more to come.
