National Anthem at the Blue Jays Game 4

Today was the real deal. Hopefully, last practice was real and not just in my head.

“Hey! You know what today is?” Noor asked me excitedly.

“Yeah! I was just thinking about it,” I said while rolling my eyes.

“Well let’s just hope that we would sing like last week,” she pointed out.

Good. It means that it wasn’t all in my head. When the bell rang, signifying the start of the day, all of a sudden, time started flying. We went through French, Math, Science and all sorts of units in a flash. When we all assembled in the library after school, it seemed as if only minutes ago I was still outside talking with Noor. Our music teacher suggested we practiced the anthems again so we can be sure. Our note was still beautiful as before and she smiled. When we finished, she told us that we were 100% ready. We waited patiently for the bus and the seconds ticked away.

“The bus is here!” Noor exclaimed.

As we barded the bus, we all giggled and laughed. Every one was chatting about the time to come. Just seconds later, we were all prepared and ready on the field. This was when time finally slowed down as the announcer introduced us to the whole crowd.

“Lets all welcome Dunlace P.S.! Please stand up for the national anthem.”

We opened our mouths and …

“Oh … “

The fist word flew out of our mouths and reached the audience. We kept singing and singing. We opened and closed our mouths in sync even as the song ended. We moved on to the American anthem and the same angelic voice still rang out. When we finished, the stadium roared with applause. Everyone shone with pride even as we excited. Every staff member at the game who passed us said or whispered:

“Good job guys!” or “Nice singing!”

I looked at Noor and we were thinking the same things. One, we’ve really outdone ourselves. Two, everyone liked it. And three, it was way better than last year’s singing.

“You know, I really think that we sang way better than the ones that sang last year,” Noor said, just to clarify herself.

We both smiled and scurried to our parents to enjoy the rest of the game.





National Anthem at the Blue Jays Game 1
National Anthem at the Blue Jays Game 2
National Anthem at the Blue Jays Game 3