Closing my eyes, I try to pretend that no one is there, stay calm and concentrate on the fact that I'm here by myself with Luka as if we were practicing. —What makes you so nervous is having all the people around you, looking at you and paying attention to you, that's why you have so much stage fright because you focus on all the people in the audience and you think they are going to judge you or laugh at you, or whatever you think will happen —Luka told me, one day when we were both talking about my stage fright on stage—. So, just close your eyes and pretend there's no one there, that it's just you and me, rehearsing at my house or in the school auditorium, like always... So remembering those words, concentrating on what Luka once told me so long ago, I close my eyes and try to imagine

