国士舘大学新体操部

■Festival Del Sole!!: Day 6

Today is the final day of the Festival del Sole. We are going to perform in the closing ceremony from 23:30 and our performance is the very last one of the day. We had great success and felt really good last time we were the closing act, so we will try our best to make every movement count and experience the same feeling this time. We couldn’t use the stage for our rehearsal since it was occupied for preparations for the closing ceremony, but we could use the gym to check everything in our performance in the morning. We are looking forward to showing a strong finale in our last performance.

When the show started at 21:00, there were already countless people in the audience. Many people were looking forward to watching our performance. As soon as we started our warm-up, a huge crowd formed in front of us. Even in such circumstances, the students were totally focused on what they should do to prepare while waiting to go on stage.

Finally, our turn came.

It was already close to midnight at 23:30, but the audience‘s excitement exploded when we appeared on stage and we were welcomed with a roar of applause.

The music started and our last performance then followed. We succeeded in all the points that needed correction in our previous performances up until Day 5 and could show what we wanted to show smoothly to the audience. As our performance went on, we gradually became one with the audience．Towards the end of the performance, all of us showed amazing concentration and succeeded in creating a wonderful stage performance.

When we posed at the end, all our members as well as all the audience and staff were filled with a great feeling of accomplishment. I was sure that it was the best performance we did in Italy!

When our performance ended, the Festival Del Sole also came to an end. This great show finally came to a close.

Following the success we had at the last Festival del Sole in 2016, we achieved great success again this time. We are all grateful to the Italian people for giving us such a wonderful experience. It is important to make good use of this experience for the upcoming Inter-college competition in August. The day after tomorrow, we will go back to Japan and continue to work hard towards our next performance together as a team. Thank you again for all your support and assistance!