Something nobody will understand

This weekend I flew to Dallas, got picked up by friends and drove to Abilene, home of our "dear Christian college" Abilene Christian University for Sing Song 2006. For those of you who have never seen Sing Song, there is no way I can describe it that you will understand! Basically, it started out as a choral competition (a capella) among the classes and clubs.* Throughout the years, "choreography" was added, but since it is still performed on a riser-type stage, it's mostly just hand and arm movements. Confused yet? Sounds pretty lame? See, told you it cannot be described.
Just take my word for it — it's a big deal to us.
My club, Alpha kai Omega, was formed in 2000, and we'd not yet won the competition despite being SO CUTE. My closest friends and I were all officers in the club when we were in school, and it basically consumed our lives! It's a lot of work, but it's great times!At the end of the show, the results were announced. This is the point when we're used to hearing we didn't win, but this year they announced our name in first place!!! We were ecstatic! We ran over to our girls, who were going onstage to sing our club song as the winners always do. Everyone was crying for joy and amazement.
Keep in mind the preparation for this show takes months and gets pretty intense, and, being a young club among some that are 70 years old, it's amazing how far we'd come so fast in terms of numbers of memberss and accomplishments. Ok, I'm gushing. This is how much it means to all of us.
So, thirty minutes later, everyone is still milling around and celebrating in the lobby, and another alumni comes up to us and says there's just been an announcement that there was a judging error. NOOOOOOOOO! Yep, that's right. After 45 minutes another announcement — we were second place. CONSPIRACY! SOMEONE WAS PAID OFF! Ok, maybe it was a legitimate mistake, but good grief what a nasty trick.
Our poor girls handled it so well. We are SO PROUD of them.I (slightly illegally) recorded A kai O's performance with my camera, which only takes 60 second clips and doesn't zoom, but you can hear how amazing our girls sound — even recorded with my dinky little camera! You can't tell, but they were M&M's. It was definitely the best show our club has ever done. And, in my humble opinion, it was the best show of the night.

WE LOVE YOU A KAI O!!!!!!

*ACU is a private, Church of Christ affiliated school, and the administration does not allow national frats or sororities. Over the years, students have formed our own version of the Greek system, called social clubs.