I'll never forget the day I made my high school varsity hip hop team my junior year. It was definitely one of the greatest days ever. I was in 10th grade, and I don't know about other folks, but to me, sophomore year seems like the mid-high-school-crisis year of high school. Students are a little older, yet they are still restricted. That is the year that students are trying to make a name for themselves, while preparing for junior, and senior year. Albeit I was already positioned into ASB Leadership, I felt that I needed to be a part of another team just as awesome, but even greater. What is greater than being able to dance in front of thousands including; peers, AP's, teachers, and even the community at football games, rallies, and competitions? Well, there are a lot of things greater, but man, did I luck out by joining this team.
It was second semester, which usually means that tryout, or clinic days for the next year's performing arts team are arriving. My school had three major performing arts teams: varsity cheer, dance, and hip-hop. Everyone and I mean everyone always looked forward to watching the hip hop team perform, especially me. This was the team that made you want to get out of your seat and perform with them. I remember setting up for rallies in the morning with ASB, watching the hip hop team practice run their routines, and I wanted to be practicing with them so badly. So, I listened for that teams announcements, and followed the steps that were next for me to do. Within a couple of weeks after the announcement came a mandatory parent hip-hop team meeting. I knew there would be a lot of people there, because everyone wanted to be on this awesome team, and boy was there a lot of people. The meeting was a little nerve wrecking as the coaches, and assistant principals went over how the week of try outs would run. Yes! A week! They explained to us that we had to be medically cleared to try out, and the attire we had to wear.
