Choir concert went well.
Intermission and the 2 hours before the concert went poor, though.

So here's the deal.
The church we performed at have a Church Nursery where they do Sunday school downstairs, and its massive! Then a little further down the hall is a little meeting room, and I mean "little".

Last year, we used the meeting room as a place where the girls got changed and did their hair and makeup. After they were done, they went into the Nursery where the little kids and the guys were and hung out till the concert. All fine and dandy, no biggie.

This year though, one of our helpers was traveling all over the city giving music lessons to different elementary schools. Again, fine and dandy, very sweet of her, but since we treat her like family, those 70 kids are also a part of our family. And this isn't 70=our little kids+the kids she's teaching. This is 70= the kids she's teaching. What does that mean? That means that there were:
70 little kids +
20 Cantare (our) kids +
7 Young Men's +
24 Concert Chorus
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122 singers!

Anyways, I get there with one of the tenors, he goes into the Nursery to change with the guys, I go into the meeting room to change with the girls. I'm all ready, Kam's all ready, Ana's ready , and Cos was ready too, and we're just standing around.

Flash forwards to after we're done with warm-up, and we're back downstairs; Young Men's, Cantare, and Satellite (70 kids) are in the huge holding room, and Concert Chorus (girls) in the meeting room. Ana and I were standing around, Kam was doing Cos's makeup, and we all had 90 minutes to kill. Ana and I were gonna walk over to the holding room and hang out with Hot Topic, Isa, and Con, so I bent down and went "Hey, if you need us, we're going over to the holding room.". Kam and Cos went "Alright", Ana and I walked out into the hall, then a chaperone snapped at us, yelling at us to get back in the meeting room. We ran in, and I asked another chaperone why we weren't allowed over there. The reason being: they didn't want us to mingle too much. I told Kam and Cos that we weren't allowed over there. Cos was...okay with it, but Kam, along with Ana and I, was fuming.

After about 20 minutes, Kam's mom, her younger sister and older brother came downstairs, and Ana and Kam's little sister started hanging out. But Kam and I knew it got bad when Cos, the little sister of Isa, the girl who does everything in her power to get away from him and he does all he can to stay away from her, butted into our 90-minute bitching circle and said that she started to miss Isa, and Kam's mom, who saw Isa, said that he and Con started to miss all of us.

We did EVERY excuse imaginable! Ranging from us saying that we were going into the holding room to get food and water (yeah, we had people going and getting us food), then we just stay there (for the 5 seconds it would take for chaperones to notice that we haven't left yet) to having us go into the holding room to recycle a water bottle and we just talk (again, for 5 seconds) to just straight up running into the room for no reason, then getting yelled at.

I'm not joking when I say this, there were two chaperones outside of the holding room and there were (since there are two doors in the meeting room) three chaperones at each door, two outside and one inside. Kam literally went out to talk to her brother, who was outside of the room, and when she was about halfway there, a chaperone snapped her fingers at her and screamed, "Hey you! Get back in your holding room!" and Kam jumped and looked petrified. I, having be 2 inches away from this woman, said "She's going to talk to her brother, like, the guy in the green sweater." and she instantly smiled and went "Okay! Carry on!"

When one of the helpers said that we were gathering in the holding room before the concert, Kam and I looked at each other like that was the call from angels! She and I almost started crying, we were so happy!

We tried not to keep false hope that we were going to be able to hang out in the holding room during intermission, and I guess that was a good idea cuz on the way downstairs, Kam, Cos, Con, Isa, and I were talking. Before we got to the meeting room, Con grabbed my hand and Isa grabbed Cos's and Kam's hand and they dragged us towards the holding room, saying we were allowed to go in , and we kept shaking our heads. Right as Isa and Con stepped into the holding room but Kam, Cos and I were still out in the hall, they pushed us back in to the meeting room, but Cos, Kam and I stood by the door closest to the holding room, waiting for ANY GUY FROM THE YOUNG MEN'S TO WALK BY JUST SO WE COULD FUCKING TALK TO THEM!!

THE ROOM SMELLED OF PERFUME AND HAIRSPRAY!! WE WERE INTROVERTED PEOPLE WHO ONLY LIKED EACH OTHER AND EVERYONE IN THAT ROOM DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE WERE FEELING!! THEY WERE SAYING BULLSHIT LIKE "It'll be okay" AND "At least you have us" NO WOMAN, WE ONLY HAD EACH OTHER! WE'RE A CHOIR OF 24 GIRLS AND THERE WERE LIKE, 4 FUCKING GIRLS WHO WANTED TO GO IN THE HOLDING ROOM AND NO ONE WOULD LET US THE FUCK IN!! WE ONLY HAD HALF OF THE SQUAD WITH US AND THE OTHER HALF WERE IN THE HOLDING ROOM!! WE WERE HAVING CON, ISA, AND TAY (Hot Topic) DEPRAVITY!! KAM, COS, AND I ALMOST STARTED TO FUCKING CRY!! THE HELPER CAME DOWN TO CHECK ON EVERYONE AND SEE IF WE WERE OKAY AND THERE WERE 20 "Yes"S AND KAM, COS, ANA, AND I SAID "No"!!! WE'RE NOT O-FUCKING-KAY!! WE MISS OUR SQUAD'S OTHER HALF!! THE GUYS DID TOO!! AS SOON AS WE WALKED INTO THE HOLDING ROOM, CON AND ISA HUGGED US AND TAY BEAR-HUGGED US ALL!! THEY SPLIT UP A SQUAD, A FAMILY, WE RELY ON EACH OTHER FOR SANITY WHEN THE WORLD GETS STUPID, AND IT WAS SO GIRLY IN THERE, KAM AND I WERE JUST AT THE BRINK OF RIPPING OUR HAIR OUT!!!

OH MY GOD!! THAT FUCKING BIG ASS KID CHOIR NEEDS THEIR OWN GOD DAMN CONCERT, NOT TO BE A PART OF OURS CUZ IF THEY PERFORM IN OUR SHOWING ONE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER I WOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE KNOWING THAT CON, TAY, AND ISA ARE IN THE SAME BUILDING AS ME AND JUST DOWN THE HALL, BUT I CAN'T GO SEE THEM!!!!

THIS RANT IS FINALLY DONE!! OH THANK GOD!!

HALLELUJAH!! HOLY SHIT!!! WHEre's the Tylenol?