Phillip has the X-Factor!

Uh oh Friday the 13th! A lot could have possibly gone wrong today, but as far as I know it wasn't too bad all round! I did have a calculations test earlier in the day which I was a bit iffy about. That might have been where all the bad luck was aimed at. At least there was no bad luck later in the night!

Tonight our youth group all went to Rutherford College to support one of our fellow youth group members Phillip, who would be performing beat-boxing at his school's X-Factor talent show! We had only organised the outing a week in advance, when one of the youth group leaders On and I were discussing what to do for activity night at youth group. Phillip said he was going to miss it because of his talent show performance, and that's how we ended up going to support him!

We originally were going to meet up first at church to see who needed transport, but when only a few guys showed up, we guessed the rest of them were going directly to the school so we just left.

We all met up with each other in the school foyer. It was great being back! I hadn't been back to Rutherford in more than a year! The school renovated the English classroom block, and now it definitely looks better than before. It has balconies, and even a lift!

After Gabrielle, another of our youth group leaders came with the tickets, we all went into the hall and took our seats. I didn't realise that my high school friend Alex was sitting right behind me! Her sister was performing a Korean dance that night too!

The girls perform a modern Korean dance

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZlX3QYVoFo)

Phillip does his beat-boxing

The first competitor was a guy who was going to solve the Rubix cube as fast as possible. Apparently he could do it in under 49s! He admitted he did it a little slow that night though! We got to watch Alex's sister perform a Korean dance with some other girls (one of the songs in their remix was SNSD's Gee!!), a rock band perform, three girls sing Miley Cyrus's Climb and then....it was Phillip!

We weren't too sure what to expect from Phillip, as we had only heard him beat-box a little from time to time at church, but when he got going, he blew everyone away! Whoever knew he was such a pro! He had the whole hall clapping as he was going and then breaking into a loud cheer and applause at the end!

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdx6OgFnggk)

Straight after was intermission, when we all got to catch up with Phillip and congratulate him on a performance well done. He had made us proud regardless of what the result was, although we were tipped off that Phillip was leading at that time! ;)

Once the show got back on the road, we watched a few performances by groups who sang, with some spot prize giveaways in between. Ticket 017 was called out and guess who had that ticket...me! What a surprise! I never win things! They were about to redraw as I went up to the front so I had to be quick about it to get my prize which was a block of chocolate!


Throughout the second half I had to endure taunts from the girls I was sitting next to, trying to boast how much better their school was! Excuse me but Rutherford just rules! hahaha (there goes my school pride)

After all the performances were done, the judges went out to deliberate while the prefects performed a little dance and some guy tried to do the Cadbury eyebrows which was quite random.

Prefects perform a dance

The judges came back in, and the winners were announced. Phillip came...2nd! First place went to one of the group of singers, but hey Phillip came 2nd!!

Phillip gets awarded 2nd place

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlGYRgKs_hU)

Oddfellows with Phillip

Afterwards we all went over to Phillip to congratulate him. What a great night! We'll have to make more use of Phillip's beat-boxing skills at church from now on!