Orchestra performance

2019. 10. 4. Friday. Sunny.

I hear noise around me. It must be annoying students running in the classroom. I open my eyes. I am sitting on my chair and I took a nap. Next class is music class. We are supposed to be performing an orchestral music piece on stage during that class. My classmates are all getting ready to perform. An inside thought sprung into my mind ‘Silly boys. Everything is already set on the stage. We don’t need to prepare anything.’. I stand up slowly and walk to the building. As I walked into the building, I noticed that the huge mass of people filling of the space. Not only did the people come from my school, as I saw many people come from across the district. I see a lot of students armed with their musical instruments ready to blow up the speakers. I glimpsed over to the stage expecting all set instruments. ‘Oh my gosh.’ There is nothing on the stage. I should have brought my instrument although I don’t know what I am playing. I was standing in the long queue. I have to time to runaway. I decided to runaway. I moved back and tried to sneak out of the building. My classmate called me “Hey, line is moving!! come! come!” I was like “Oh okay, okay.”
I end up to stand on the stage with nothing in my hands. It is really embarrassing. All my classmates around me are getting ready to start the performance. I got nothing to do. I found a blanket on the stage. I crawled under it and slept. I hear the performance has started. The harmony was good. In the middle of the performance, the conductor asked where I am. I raised my one leg out of the blanket and said ‘I don’t have my instrument’. Then one of the audiences throw me his instrument which is the janggu. I tried to play it. It doesn’t take long time to realize that I don’t know how to play the janggu. My classmate standing next to me tried to teach me how to play it. I tried to be the one in the beautiful harmony. I tried and tried but I couldn’t blend in. As I ruined the performance, the performance stopped. I didn’t stop trying. Only my janggu howls in the building. It becomes louder and louder. I wake up!