After a thorough rehearsal, serious timing a wash and new costumes (which were not particularly flattering) we were ready to go.
We arrived at the TV studio and shown to one of the many dressing rooms. Myself and Terri informed the boys that they had to leave the room so the girls could change - they left reluctantly - there is only so much of African culture which we can adapt to! Then we just had to wait. Abbi and Vicky failed to beat the TimAfrik boys at arm wrestling, but Tom won several rounds!
The show itself went amazingly well, people were cheering and clapping, really supporting us and to be honest it was the best one we had performed. Everyone stepped their game up and just had a good time. Then it was over so quickly.
We went to get changed and then came to sit in the live audience to watch the rest of the night. There was a comedian - we were the subjects of a racist joke. Something about the whites taking everything and now we are trying to take the stage and then he made a joke about one of our group dancing badly. I felt slightly uncomfortable about this as I believe racisim is racisim regardless of colour or nationality. However all the youth members were howling with laughter that they had been mentioned, they looked at the funny side of this. When we went to collect our bags, we had two members of the TV studio come to apologise for the remarks, they did not know he would say those things and were sorry for any offense caused. This was all very strange! Well, we are a novelty to most people here!
Atferwards we went to the Ocean bar to celebrate, we were the only ones there so naturally the group took over the dance floor and just had a good time. The boys from TimAfrik wanted everyone to go to a club but I put my foot down, this restaurant was the comprimise - safe and friendly! Lots of photos were taken and we told TimAfrik we would have a lie in and start rehearsals later the following day.
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