Moon Light Youth Team

At my monastery, there is a dance team called Yue Guang, also known as Moon Light Youth Team. 

(This photo was taken when we were practice together, guess where am I? haha)

        I have known this dance team for a long time, and I was also invited by a friend of mine who joined yue guang even before the pandemic. However, I felt that the training schedule was quite full. At that time, I was also afraid that I would not be able to manage my own time.

            2 months ago, on September 4, 2022, to be exact, Yue Guang started opening registration for new members. And at that time, I thought that I would only have one year left in Samarinda, after graduation, I would not be able to join this team anymore. So, there’s no harm in trying right? And here I am, now I am a member of Yue Guang's team. 

            Actually, there were many ups and downs in this team, at first there were quite a lot of members, around 40. But over time, many members resigned. But yeah, luckily, I'm still here with another members. 

            I practice every Sunday, usually for 2 hours or a maximum of 2 hours and a half. So, after finishing Sunday school, we stayed there and were given one hour of rest, as well as provided meals every week. One thing we must do before practice is we pray together first. Then, after we finished, we started to our practice site, and we did a warm-up.

            We had several warm-ups, one of which was running around the room 5 times. To be honest, the first time I ran, I was not strong and felt pain in my stomach. But a few weeks later I understood that I had to run slowly so that running 5 times wouldn't hurt my stomach. And after we warm up (30 minutes) we will start dancing practice. Usually, we are tested first whether we still remember the movements in the song or not, then we practice the movements together. It’s actually hard enough to learn a new choreography and need some times, but I believe that we can through this together.

            Then, when will we have a perform? Why are we practicing every week if we haven't performed yet? The answer is, every week we practice preparing for the movement. So, if one day there is an event, we can immediately display it without chasing time, just reviewing and strengthening the movement.

            Honestly, I'm happy to be in this team, because I really admired the previous Yue Guang era. In the future I hope that we can get closer to each other, we can train and perform well one day too. Yue Guang team let’s do this together! 💗

(on my way to practice room)