Gamlas dans 2022

On 6th of May we, the second year students of Mattlidens Gymnasium as per tradition had our Old dances. This year no performance was held at our own school as the teachers were striking, however, we performed for our guests at Opinmäki, after which we had a bit of an after party and dinner at Holvikellari.

We started our day a bit later than originally planned at 12:30 as we didn’t have to perform at our own school. We met at Opinmäki where we had one run through before the evening's performance for our parents, but the run through did not go quite as planned, because we ran into some technical difficulties with the music playlist. This made us a bit nervous about the actual performance, because if the music wasn't fixed it would ruin our show.

Guests for the evening started to show up at about 4 p.m. and we were getting ready to perform and at 4:30 p.m. it was show time. Thank goodness the music was fixed properly and we were able to throw a good show for our audience - apart from the occasional wrong steps taken by yours truly of course. 

After the dances people changed into something a bit more comfortable and got ready for the after party, which was held at Holvikellari in Helsinki. The after party was a good chance for us to get chatting with our friends and eat some good food after a long day and finish the evening nicely and have a good time.