LO1- Identify their own strengths and develop areas for growth. Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various abilities and skills, of which some are more developed than others.

This week in Bersama, we recorded “light in the hallway” which is a song that we’ve been working on for quite a bit of this term. It requires a lot of work with harmonies. Harmony work used to be quite tricky for me when I first joined bersama because all the seniors seemed to know what they were doing, however, after around a year of working with these amazing singers, I’ve learned to pick up and use my “ear” to find the harmonies in the songs. This is definitely a skill I want to improve on, and I am nowhere near close to being “comfortable” with it – however I see progress and this is what matters!

Doing bersama in the COVID situation has been quite tricky as for the first half, we could not even rehearse in the same room together! We had to come up with creative ways, such as each individual being plugged into different headsets from different rooms and singing through that. The regulations pushed us to challenge the conventions of how bersama runs and to push our limits – to what extent could we still collaborate effectively and improve our overall sound despite the challenges?

I look forward to continuing to improve our sound with more practices and working on my individual harmony work, as well as ability to sight-read.