An embarrassing moment I went through during my childhood was the time I was competing in nationals with my competitive dancing group. This was back in 2008 I used to be in a pro salsa dancing team, specifically Colombian salsa which means there is a lot of tricks and stunts that are part of the dance. I had so much pressure on my myself because we had a finale stunt that was mainly my responsibility to execute. It was almost like a pyramid where I had to jump from the top and roll down into split carried by my two partners. We had practiced for about 2 and a half weeks and everything was good, every practice was almost perfect. So we were pretty confident in doing a good job. When the day come obviously there were nerves but I was pretty confident and excited because during nationals were able to rank for international competitions. After one hour and a half of being in hair and makeup and costume preparation we we’re all ready. We were second to last to go on stage, so we were practicing a little back stage. When it was our turn we prayed really quick and ran to our starting positions. My stunt was last and as I get ready to climb up to my jump I slipped and fell on my partner, with all the nerves and shock we got up and kept dancing with the rest of the group. This was my time to prove myself and I messed it up. I was so embarrassed to fall in front of everyone and scared for the consequences. Luckily the fast recovery got us at least 2nd place.
