I have actually tried danced before especially in my previous school but this is my first time joining dance performance in UWCSEA which is culturama Japan. in culturama japan. we are divided into two groups, a group who dance traditional Japanese dance and another group that dance jpop dance. I decided I want to do Jpop dance. It requires so much energy to be able to energetically dance Japanese hip-hop dance.

To be completely honest, I thought that I am going to be able to learn the dance quickly just like what I did before in my previous school when we learned Indonesian dance. However, It was really hard for me to learn the dance completely because the moves from Jpop dance are never done by me before. Therefore, there was quite a lot of time when I did not synchronize with the other team.

But gladly, I am able to communicate well with the leader of culturama japan then I learned individually how to dance certain moves from Jpop dance. It did not take me that much time to be able to get myself organized again with other people in my group.

I am aware that during my involvement in this activity, I am able to speak up my mind. firstly, about learning the dance and secondly, when I was a bit self-conscious with what I wear that looks kind of different from people in culturama Japan. We were supposed to wear a mini skirt which I think it may not be suitable for me since I wear Hijab. However, I am glad that the lead of culturama japan understands about this issue and we were able to talk about it and we just came out with the idea for me to wear black legging under the skirt and white headscarf.

The area that I think is needed to grow is my ability to catch up some movement. Sometimes, I found my body felt stiff when I danced which may disadvantage me because the dance movement in culturama japan requires a lot of body elasticity to be able to dance it fully. Therefore, I did my own practice everytime I had free time even when taking shower. the practices that I did by my own allowed me to remember the dance moves just out of blue. Slowly, my dance movement is improved as I saw the video when we practised and I became more synchronize with the other member.