Day Fifty-Six

I got lotion in my eyes and now they're tingling.

In art today we worked on our lino-block designs. She didn't like mine enough, and she suggested doing 10 thumbnails of the same thing, changing it all up each time. That is a pain.

In English we started watching Strictly Ballroom. OH my goodness, I love it. It's amazing, just saying.

In math we had an exam! I think I did pretty alright!

During lunch I bought tickets for the one-acts (it's kind of my thing. No big deal).

In spare me and Margo hung around in theatre, cleaning up backstage and stuff to prepare for the dress rehearsal. The acting teacher asked me to go mediate a group of the grade nine girls, because they kept fighting about a project. I actually stopped the fighting and got it to look good, so that's good!

In acting we just played around with comedia again.

We had dress rehearsal tonight! It went incredibly smooth. I was proud! We didn't mess up at all! I'm so excited for tomorrow.

Day Fitty-Fie

Whoa. I have 'Sexyback' on my iTunes. It's been years since I heard that one...

In art today we painted the stuff we're working on with glaze! So I guess you'd say... we glazed the stuff with glaze. I didn't get mine all done (just like everybody else), so tomorrow we're working on them again.
In English we discussed the book section we just finished. Next section finishes it off! Tada! While we were discussing it we got way off topic and started having a debate about communism.
In math we check over our pretest. I only got two wrong, which is pretty fantabulous (... 'fantabulous' is a word now. .... Oh, English language: where did you go wrong?).
During lunch I put some tickets for the one acts on hold that I bought for friends. I've bought nine so far! Whoa.
In spare I just slummed up in a friend's class room: their teacher is really funny. He showed us a video on Youtube of a big dog playing with a little one, then swallowing it. I don't think it was real, but it could have been - it looked pretty good. Then when the bell rang one of my friends brought me food she made in class. I was pretty pumped about it. AND I shared.
In acting I had nothing to do, because I have everything done for acting. I said that, so the teacher said I could do other homework, but I have none, really. So I just read through my script for the one acts and moved some boxes around.
I also found out that tomorrow during the dress rehearsals for one acts, my group won't be able to see every play, because we have to get our pictures taken for group shots. Bummer! But oh well. We open in two days! Whoa-oh.

Day Fifty-Four / Weekend Combo!

I'm really sucking at remembering to do this: that's partially good though, right? I'm not spending all my time on the computer?
On the weekend I went to a sleepover birthday thing, but I didn't sleep over. Yesterday I went over to a friend's house as well. We ate Indian food. It was delicious.

Today in art she showed us our lino block project. The lino block is linoleum, like the floor! I think after we design what we want it to look like, we're going to be drawing it... on the block? Then scratching it in I believe. Then rolling ink on it and making a pretty picture... I think. She gave us two options: Nostalgia or fantasy. I was going to do a cool 50's scene with Greasers and cool cars, but then she told us we had to draw it ourselves, and I can't draw very good cars.
In English we used the class to think about our big essay (the one that has a $10,000 first prize from the Ayn Rand Institute!), and start our architectural (yea, I spelled that first try) drawings.
In math we had a pretest for the module we just finished - I got it all done! I didn't think I was going to have time, but then I did.
I'm making rice.
At lunch I bought MORE tickets for the one acts. That's nine that I've bought so far.
During spare I just worked in the library, and lent some nice chick a pen.
In acting we worked on Comedia again! We read the [more] modern take on it all the way through, then she had us walk around the stage in the different personalities of the different stock characters of comedia. Because the characters have different names in different plays, but it's the same general idea.

We had one act rehearsal after school, and she had us go through it once with no lines, just money-sounds. Haha, it's going to be an interesting little ordeal. We open in three days! Wahoo!

Day Fifty-Two and Three!

Oh my. I forgot to post some blogtasticness yesterday! I'll do double-goodnesss today.

Yesterday in art, all we did was tweak a 'value' handout that we were supposed to sketch. Mine looks absolutely terrible, but that is OK! Today we watched a video about value some more, and then she had us sketch peanuts using the the values we learned! My peanuts were pretty legitimate. Oh - and I had a stomach ache.
Yesterday in English we watched the movie for the whole class! We didn't finish it though. Today in class we finished it! Oh my goodness, the guy at our table didn't actually wreck it for me, because what I thought was going to happen to one kid, actually happened to the other kid! It wasn't happy! I cried - oh yes I did. Then the ending was really beautiful, so I cried some more.
Yesterday in math we got missing tasks lists, and I actually had two missing tasks. One was just a piece of homework that he was confused about, but the other I hadn't put my name on, so we didn't know whose it was. When I got that little red question mark, I didn't know what to do, so I had to ask somebody. Today in math we just did one quiz, then the other kids caught up on stuff and I sat there.
During lunch yesterday I bought a hoodie! A school hoodie! It's orange with green writing - I'll get it around December 16th. Woohoo! I also bought four tickets to the One Acts, for my parents and aunt and uncle. Today during lunch I didn't eat very much, because I still had a stomach ache. I bought two more tickets for other people. On Monday I will be buying a few more tickets.
During spare yesterday I hung out back-stage in the theatre and watched some of my friends in grade twelve get ready for their 'Christmas Grad Cruise,' so that was fun. Today during spare I just bummed around in my friend's class. Their teacher doesn't mind. Since it's a glass art class, one kid at the table I sat at cut himself open, so I went and got him bandaids and put them on his finger. Then another kid cut himself open, so I got a bandaid for him and put it on for him as well. Then there were two more cuts that went down, but I didn't want to get any more bandaids.
In acting yesterday we didn't work on the comedia anymore - we found scripts and one-acts that we want to do with our partners for the latest project! We found one pretty quick, then we went to run through it. Today in acting she had us each read five one-acts or short scripts, and write a short report about each one. I only got through two, but it's due on Tuesday, so I'm fine!
After school yesterday I went to the physiotherapists place, and he said I was 'leaps and bounds better,' and it was my very last time going! When I was leaving, the receptionist was all, 'Aww, Meadow!...' and he said, 'This is like the last day of school!' Then he said that he knows that I may be interested in physio, or massage therapy when I'm out of school, and if I ever wanted to ask for advice, I could ask! What a guy. Today after school we had rehearsal for our one act! It's getting pretty close! We open December 1st!!

My stomach still hurts.

Day Fifty-One

Pizza time.
In art we made more of the things that I'm not gonna say what they are! I made a really funky one today. I'm proud.
In English we were going to watch a bit more in The Dead Poet Society, but we spent the whole class discussing the part of the book we just finished - I like English. One of the guys at my table said somebody wrecked the movie by telling him something, but as he told us, he said what his friend said, so it was wrecked for us too. Man, I could have smacked him, haha! Ahh well - I'm over it.
In math we just caught up on some stuff. I'm fourth in the class I think? Which I don't know what happened. I was second or first this whole time. Still though, I'm getting an A. I better be getting an A. Not an A is unacceptable. B for... Booo.
In lunch I stood up to eat my food. It tasted good. There were also guys selling hoodies for the school - I'm going to get one, I think. I'm deciding between pink, or orange. Orange is my favorite colour, but it's a really bright, atomic orange. At least I wouldn't get hit by a car while wearing it, right?
In spare I read, chilled in a friend's class, then went and sat with some other friends while they did math. I pretended to know what we were talking about: 'Oh, pssh, yea! I know, right? Those crazy maths.'
In acting we worked on something called... uh... 'Comedia-somethinginItalian.' It was the original slap-stick. So that was fun! We started reading through a more recent play, done in the same basic style. Tomorrow we'll be reading through it some more, and blocking it for fun.

After school in one-act rehearsal, the acting teacher watched us. She gave us some good feedback, and we have costumes now! Woo!

Day Fifty

Fivers! Dude.
Today I woke up at 6 AM by fluke, and the power was out. So thankfully I was able to set my phone alarm for seven, or else I would have not woken up. At seven the lights were still off, so I walked around with my phone as a guide (it's hard to walk around in a new house in the dark that may or may not have boxes in inconvenient places). Eating breakfast in the dark was really hard: the darkness pressing on my face gave me that feeling you get when somebody is leaning right up close to your face and grinning stupidly or something - that, and I kept almost missing my darn mouth with the spoon. Showering in the dark was actually really good. It was like I was still asleep under my warm covers, just dreaming about being awake and showering. When I got to school, everybody was on the deck (cafeteria) waiting to be told by teachers we could go home. There were so many kids, and it was too hot because everybody was breathing. The staff said they were delaying first block until the lights came on (because there isn't any lights in our hallways. It would have been perilous). The vice principle was standing on the stairs, with the megaphone in hand, and we could all tell she was just itching to tell us we could go, but then the lights came on and there was a collective 'Awwwww.'

In art, since half the kids weren't there, and it was almost a half hour late in starting anyway, the teacher just let us drink iced tea out of the cups we made. Mine is functional, and actually looks good! We also did some other stuff, but those things might actually be fit for cute little stocking stuffers, so I'm not gonna talk about them.
In English we started watching The Dead Poet Society. Oh my goodness, it's flipping amazing.
In math it was difficult, and I was sleepy and hungry. Not a happy camper.
During lunch I ate some food and bummed around, and then in spare I read my book!
In acting we saw the other monologues, and gave feedback. Then she had us start writing our actors journal for the monologue. We also got to hear a commercial done by the technical students, and it was funny. The end.

Day Forty-Nine

In art we painted some stuff on our cups that will make them shiny - I don't think she told us what it was called. Two coats, then she'll fire them today.
In English we looked at houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Very cool, very cool. I love Falling Water. I want to live there. I will reclaim it from the tourists as a house of my own. I will wake up every morning and hear the steam outside, then go down my steps and wade in it, then go over the glass barrier and into the deeper pool underneath my house, where I will sit and relax and listen to the stream right beside me.
In math we did our normal stuff, and me and Karter got both of our homework pages done, whee!
During lunch I ate a samosa. Spare passed in kind of a blur. I read The Fountainhead for a while, and sat in the deck with Margo for a while.
In acting we watched performances and dress rehearsals of the people who hadn't done theirs yet. We didn't get through all of them today, but tomorrow we're going to give feedback to the people who performed today, then watch the other people who hadn't gotten a chance on stage yet.

The weekend!

I forgot to post yesterday, but that's because I went to a friend's house and we played Zelda. Yes, we did. I'll admit it. Moving on!

On Saturday I stayed in my pyjamas all day; however, I did dishes, a HEAP of laundry (multiple loads, even!), and cleaned my entire room - which still had a lot of boxes in it! It took a good three hours but I got it done! On Sunday I did homework, again, staying in my pyjamas until I went to my friend's house in the evening (before I left for her house, I just switched pyjamas - no clothes. Gotta be fresh!). We played until 2:30 AM. So that was fun! Four hours of sleep then school, wahoo!
That was a fun weekend.

Day Forty-Eight

In art we watched a documentary on some Mexican artist who's name I forget at the present time. The reason I forget is because everybody was tweaking their cups, so the teacher said to those of us who were done that we should tweak as well. So I was fiddling with the silly cup instead of paying attention to the documentary. Ahh well - there were pretty pictures that I saw every once and a while.
In English we talked about the first 200 pages of the book: which, by the way, I finished! It was my first big 'read this on time,' assignment. I stayed up till 11:30 last night reading, then woke up at about 5:50 this morning to keep reading - but I got it all done! We have just under another 200 to read by Tuesday - that's like fifty pages a day. No big deal.
In math we finished the notes page, and that took most of the class time because there was a lot of explaining to do, and stuff like that. My math buddy Karter, who sits beside me, came back from Vegas yesterday (or sometime)! So it was good to see him again too.
During lunch I ate a tasty PB and J.
In spare I did some math homework, then remembered I needed a costume for my big acting final, so I ran home and grabbed that.
In acting I... did my big final! I felt really confident, woohoo!
We had rehearsal after school, it went well.
And FYI, I got an 88 of 100 on my acting final! That's an A and I don't care who knows it.
The new Twilight movie came out today. I'm going to see it tonight, and I don't care who knows that either!

(actually, I care a bit about that last one)

Day Forty-seven

Cheese and crackers and water! So delish.

In art she had those of us who were done our cups do this 'negative space' exercise: we got a strip of black paper, drew something on it, then cut out all the pieces, then glued the cut outs and the black paper onto two separate pieces of white paper. It actually was very cool. She said 'no objects,' and, 'no geometric shapes.' That's all she said for guide lines. I drew a butterfly and made it's wings look really cool with the different elements of negative space, then I glued the cut out lines of the butterfly to the other paper, etc. I showed it to her and she said, 'Nope! No objects.' I hadn't thought a living thing was an object and wished she had been more clear, but I'm not the teacher. She also said, 'You're supposed to stick the cut out pieces in a different design on the other piece of paper. Do it again.' I hadn't recalled that part, apparently, but nevertheless I did it again. I drew some random, differently sized blobs, and stuck them haphazardly to the other piece of paper (which is what she intended, I guess, but the butterfly was much cooler and more negative).
In English we watched clips from a movie that is renowned as the 'best film on earth,' by lots of movie critics and stuff. It's a Japanese take on Macbeth, filmed on Mount Fuji. The faces of the actors were always way over the top, but that's because the director was giving homage to Noh (Japanese theatre in which the actors wear very expressive masks). It was made in the fifties, which wasn't all that long ago, yet it was very repetitive. It was good, but with very long scenes of the same stuff (for example: two characters rode horses around in fog, with no dialect, for about five minutes). Good for it's time. We also talked about the novel we're reading. I have 100 pages left to read by tomorrow. I plan to stay up till they're done. Our teacher told us today that after these pages, we will have to read 300 more by Tuesday. Oh my, reading,
In math we did some notes and a quiz and stuff. It was mathalicious.
During lunch I came home and read.
During spare I read.
In acting we really went deeper in our monologue scripts and figured out some better blocking ideas, and things like that.

Day Forty-Six

I-I-I I work out.

In art I finished scratching my cup. We also did a minute-long sketch. We usually do those on Monday, but our teacher wasn't there yesterday. I went to the opening at the museum, and by the way, our teacher wasn't even there! Booo...
In English we finished the movie. I actually really liked it! It was a BBC movie, and English humor always makes me laugh (especially dark English humor). I started reading the big long book yesterday, too. Today I read more! I'm so studious. I really like it so far- ... and it's about architecture.
In math we just finished up our notes from yesterday and worked on homework, which I need to finish up now.
During lunch I ate a delicious wrap. My wrap consisted of refried beans and other tasty things. Numm.
In spare I came home and did some stuff on the computer (I meant to work, but I got stuck on Youtube for a second), then I went back to school and met some of Margo's friends. They're really funny and I like them, the end.
In acting all of a sudden our teacher kept getting me to do stage manager type stuff. I was in charge of getting people in the dress rehearsal line-up to set up their stage, and making sure they knew it was their turn. I also was the prompter with scripts, and she asked me to find props for whoever needed them. But I guess I had nothing else to do anyway, so it was good! I got a flashlight during performances to follow the scripts, so it was all worth it, obviously.
Today we didn't have one-act practice, because I'm the only actor in the country right now.

Day Forty-Five

I bought new songs on iTunes, and I bought some songs from Tarzan. They always make me tear up: sometimes I listen to them when nobody's home so I can cry. True story.

In art today we had a sub, so we just scratched more stuff onto our cups. Our art is on display for a month at a museum, but the artists get a special showing tonight, with snacks.
In English we started watching a modern take on Macbeth. It's set in a kitchen / restaurant, and the main guy is named Joe Macbeth, he's a chef. His best friend is Billy Banquo, he's a chef too, and so on. It's good so far! We also got the novel we are to read, 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand! I always think of 'Anne Landers' from a Simpsons episode when I hear the name. But, are you ready for this? We have to read to page 200 by Friday, and it's written in 12 pt. font. Oh.
In math we started  did a lesson, and so on and so fourth.
In spare I read.
In acting we did our dress rehearsals, and I was first. I only forgot one bit, but I got it eventually. I basically need to basically redesign my whole set according to the feedback, as well as find a bunch of props to make it seem 'darker.' No big.

Half Way Through a Four Day Weekend

me.

Day Forty-five

Four day weekend, om nomnomnom.

In art we actually started scratching our stuff onto our cups. I think mine is working. Well, maybe... We'll see! Time will tell. It's gonna be funny when I'm done - just that ugly/scary seascape cup in the cupboard that nobody uses, no big deal, haha!
We had our Remembrance Day assembly today. Do I have a family member serving over seas? No. A friend? No. A family member in the military at all? No. Have I cried at every single Remembrance Day service I've ever been to? Yes.
In English we had our big exam for Macbeth - no sweat there, I think I did pretty well.
In math we're about to start a new module, so we were revising some prior techniques and stuff (yea - I spelled techniques first try).
During lunch I had crackers and fake-meat sausage, cheese, and veggies! Oh it was so good. I was very full, but it was so grand.
In spare we decorated my locker even more. I have surf pictures up on the door - it makes me glad to open it! My locker buddy was all, 'Dude, decorate the whole door, not just your half. Put the shirtless boys on my half,' so that was funny.
In acting we had our tech rehearsal for our monologues! Mine was over in about four minutes. Then our teacher asked me to go into the back and help the other kids with theirs, so I got them working without a script. The teacher also got busy at one point, so I kept the rehearsals going, giving everybody their turn and so on.
Yea. I get stuff done.

Day Forty-four

When I left school at 5 it was dark: that is not a fun thing.

In art today we painted the slip onto our clay cups. I chose blue for mine. It's sort of pastel blue right now, but once it's fired it will get darker. On Tuesday I guess we'll start scratching our designs in!
In English we saw the final act of Macbeth performed by a group - there was a sword fight on a table, it was pretty fantastic.
In math we had a test, and it was really fun (not even being sarcastic).
During lunch we watched some dodgeball - we basically do that everyday! I never knew it could be played as an actual 'sport.' I always thought it was more of a 'still time left in gym class' sort of thing, but the guys playing make it intense and scary (scary because you could get pelted in the face).
In spare I went home and did some stuff, including practicing my lines. I'm such a good kid.
In acting we got assigned to techs and worked out our lights. Mine are pretty straight forward (as are most monologue lights). We also did our memory tests for the lines! I got 17 out of 20. The girl marking me (just another student) said I forgot a whole sentence, and messed up some words here and there. When I asked her what sentence (for study's sake) I missed, she took a while to find it. I pointed out one that I knew that I said and asked if that was the one I forgot, and she said it was. So... I dunno about THAT particular nonsense.

After school we had one act rehearsal. Ours is coming along nicely, hooray!

Day Forty-three

In art we had a sub so all we did was draw thumbnails.
In English we watched another presentation, and had some good discussion time about the various issues they brought to our attention!
In math we corrected the pre-test, then there was a half hour of homework / missing work time, but I had none so I sat there and chilled.
In spare I momentarily helped my friend with his project, but all I had to do was colour something in - sort of silly, haha!
In acting we worked on our monologues and got our blocking down to what we want, and started deciding what we wanted to do with tech. Tomorrow we have to have it memorized.
We have a four day week this week AND next week. We have a four day weekend, hooray!
After school I did physio. It was very hard and I was all sweaty. But Kyle said I only have to do probably one more appointment! Oh. Boy.

Day Forty-two

In art we got clay, then we rolled out the clay and cut it to fit around a paint container, which is the right size for the cup we'll be making. I was going to make my cup with a design of space for my mum, but the teacher said that design wasn't very good for what we were doing, so now I'm making it a sea-cope thing. I have a big tentacle going across it, I think it'll end up being cool.
In English we watched the second group's act. They decided to do a movie for it. They worked super hard, and the teacher really liked it, but my picky home-movie nerd side came out and I could barely enjoy it. Ahh well, it was fine. We all had a good discussion about corruption afterwards though, so that was sweet.
In math we started a pretest. The guy beside me showed me a weird design that I couldn't make sense of until he flipped it upside down, then it turned out to be the type of drawing that I would expect from a boy (but I still laughed).
During lunch I floated around, and got invited to a party! I may be busy on the night of it, but who knows, because I don't write anything down ever (good, strong character trait, I know).
In spare I did some homework then drank orange juice. Margo (my 'spare friend') technically is on lock-down by her parents, but if she gets all her work done, she's chill to hang out for the rest of spare, so that's fun.
In acting we worked on blocking our monologues. Mine went from one thing to the other but I think we've got it figured. If I had read my monologue more carefully before choosing it, I would have never chose it. The grammar is flippin' terrible, and it annoys me. It's really awkward to read because a lot of the sentences are tiny and have way too many commas, or a period where there should be a comma. Yea, I know, they may have done it on purpose, but oh my goodness, they've never heard of the word 'and.'
One of the many examples: 'She turned the TV on, turned the volume up loud, very loud.'

The Weekend!

Yup! The weekend was fun! On Saturday I did basically nothing... I watched some Aussie show on TV, then Iron Man! Then, even though they were showing Fast and Furious next, I somehow managed to get myself outside for a nice long walk. In the evening I watched Soul Surfer with a bunch of people! Such a good movie! I literally couldn't focus on anything the next morning, because all I could think about was surfing and longboarding (I actually found it kind of funny how preoccupied my mind was)! Then in the afternoon yesterday my parents and I went out for my Gran's (dad's mum) surprise birthday party! It was great! So much fun. We got her various things, including lamb chops. Ha! She loves lamb chops, and the only store that she could get to to buy them closed. My cousins are coming over for a sleepover on Friday! That'll be interesting AND fun.

Day Forty-One

I'm gonna go backwards today, just to mess people up.
In acting we got into our monologue characters, and had to stay in them the whole class as we were asked questions, and we were getting marked on it so it was really hard! I managed to sit still almost the whole time; however, I had the major jitters when we were done (my character is thirty-four. I figured she wouldn't fidget too much).
During spare I worked on homework and various other fun things like that. I also went to one of my friends classes where their teacher doesn't care about visitors, so I chilled there and ate their food. During lunch I sat and watched while some of my friends took pictures of the grads and their siblings.
In math there was no evacuation necessary! For once. We got a load of stuff done, including all today's stuff, as well as yesterday's!
In English my group and I did our project! Hooray! It was good, I think we got something like 88 of 100, so we were pretty thrilled with that. We had a sociogram of our act, a summary, an act, costumes, props, a game of flippin' Jeopardy, and prizes. We even gave the losers some chocolate. But we ate most of it after they had all gotten theirs. I ate a bunch of peanut M&M's, and I really really hurt my jaw. It was just really tired - so that sucked.
In art I sat around for about twenty minutes, then she gave us pieces of paper to draw on and measure out the length of our cup and so on, then draw what we want onto it. I had a good idea, then she came and teacher'd at me, so I had to think of something to 'tie it all together,' but I totally thought of something incredible, and I'm pumped.

Now I'm at home.
As I went for a snack, I thought to myself, 'Something healthy to eat!' But alas, the cinnamon buns were right next to the unripe bananas. What would YOU have done?

Day Forty!

Tada!

I can't really recall what we did in art today. I drew some more thumbnails for stuff we may be doing, and I watched the teacher finish my project for me by taping the handles onto the collage to show everybody how to do it (which is awesome, cause I didn't want to do it).
In English we figured everything out with jeopardy, and we blocked out the acting part. Oh boy, it's going to be fantabulous (I say that because it's probably not, but I'm excited because we have fun with it)!
In math half-way through the daily quiz the smoke alarm went off. The teacher asked the TA if there was a drill today and she's all, 'Uhh, no,' So the teacher was like, 'Alrighty then! Everybody go out the backdoor and meet me in the middle of the back field!' And it was scary! I thought we were all gonna watch the school burn. As we left the classroom the halls just REEKED with smoke. We all left and met in the soaking wet back field, thinking about our lunches that were still in the classroom. After about half an hour of getting our shoes wet, we all went back in because it had just been a smoke bomb. Apparently my school had a reputation with smoke bombs, but nothing had happened in a long time and today cost over $1000 in fireman charges or something (that's just what I heard). So all the kids with asthma were coughing and stuff, and the teachers were all really annoyed. There was an announcement urging anybody with info to speak up and stuff, and I think the kids who did it'll be caught, because the school is decked out with cameras.
In spare there were hall monitors walking around, and so many teachers patrolling - and now we can't leave our classes until the bell rings.
During acting our teacher told us that the special needs kids in wheelchairs and stuff can't actually be evacuated until the firemen get there (can't use an elevator during a fire), so they have to stay in a 'safe zone' being terrified until the firemen come, so it was very uncool for them today.

Day Thirty-Nine

Almost to fourzies. It feels like I've been going to school for a lot longer than just 39 days!

I got super stressed out last night - but I think that was because of my new pillow. It's one of those fancy-smancy posture ones and I'm not used to it yet, so all I could think about was the acting project that was happening today and how un-ready we were.
In art I just wasted time pretending to work on my project, but it's actually done (I technically didn't have to pretend, considering the teacher didn't have anything for those of us who were done to do). I also ranted to the people at my table about how much stuff I had going on.
In English we got our scripts for each of the acts we're doing - go act 2! We revised and scratched out stuff we didn't want, and assigned everybody characters. The acting isn't a huge part of our project, but it's still required. I'm Lady Macbeth and Malcolm (we had to be imaginative, because there's only five of us, and ten characters. It was hard finding two for each of us that weren't on at the same time), no big deal.
In math I had fun - I like math class. There isn't much to say, because... well, it's math.
During lunch I sort of floated around to groups of friends - which was fantastic, because that's what I did in our old town. I would hang out with some people for a few minutes, then go see my other friends, too, and that's what I did today and yesterday!
In spare Margo was in the library again, as she will be from now on, so I went and did my homework. I'm glad that I got it all done, because I was about to have a melt down. But I got it all done, and feel good.
In acting we did our big projects! One of us was missing yesterday during our major freak-out light planning session, so we didn't have her in our calculations. She was there today, and since I sort of became the director of the whole thing (I tried not being 'in charge,' but nothing got done, literally), I was stressing about fitting her in, or telling her she wasn't in it. Thankfully, two other people were cut out of their group, and they needed an extra person and our girl actually wanted to join their's. We did our performance and it worked great! There were a few things that could have been better, obviously, but our tech did an AMAZING job! It was very complicated and we knew exactly what we wanted, but she pulled it off. The other group still had some hiccups in their tech, but all in all in was pretty good.
We had one act rehearsal today as well, and things are coming along! I did it twice at home without my script with only a few promptings, so I'll be ready soon.

(OH! And we moved)

Day Thirty-Eight

Today was just grand, minus the costumes - but I guess that's pretty average for a not Halloween day.

In art I finished up my project! My background is black, and then I have gray circles going around to 'draw the eye through the picture,' and the reason they're there is because my Grandad smoked a lot (it's why he died, after all!). I have one memory of my Grandad and I - just the one. I was sitting on his lap watching Yogi Bear, and he was smoking a big cigar. I remember the smell, the smoke on the ceiling, and I remember thinking, 'Wow! Gran lets him smoke in the house!' But apparently my Grandad stopped smoking years before I was born - but I don't think so (the only memory I have of the man is probably not about him at all - I'm aloud to be stubborn, haha!)!
In English we kept up work on our project. My group and I are going to do a Jeopardy game for the class, because we're supposed to have a big discussion. We're going to start by acting out a few bits of our act, then ending with the Jeopardy game (we're hoping it won't be finished when class is over, because then we can say, 'Oh! Sorry folks - that's the end of the game for today!' Just like whatshisface does).
In math I had everything done before I got there, so I just chilled. Then we did an activity involving asking a bunch of students questions again, so I hurried the kid beside me (hurrying = helping), and we went out and were back before anybody else had left yet, so we played hangman. That game's making a comeback or something.
During lunch I chilled with kids I hadn't hung out with before and it was good.
My friend Margo can't hang out with me in spare anymore, because apparently she isn't getting good grades and her parents have put her on 'lock-down,' which means being in the library for the whole spare. It'll be good, though, cause she's too smart to be doing badly! I finished up a test that our math teacher wanted us all do redo, then as I was passing by my locker, one of the guys from English patted my back as I went by. Then later one of my friends pulled a sticky-note off my back that said something not nice (but not not-nice enough to be mean, just funny). I couldn't believe it actually worked on me, because I've done it to so many people - ha!
In acting the other group did their voice project, but their techs hadn't had time to plan or program anything, so it was very mixed up. It took about 20 minutes instead of the proper 5, and it was sort of painful. But they get to do it again, and the sub-teacher said he would only count it as a dress rehersal. Hooray! We do ours tomorrow.

There was a crucial part of lunch yesterday that I didn't mention. On the catwalk as everybody was showing off their costumes, one of the very mentally challenged girls wanted to go up, too. She didn't have a costume and has trouble walking - but they said she could. The guy that was sort of MCing the thing made everybody hold the rickety tables as she started walking down them, and everybody cheered. It was fantastic! Each time she stepped off of one table onto the other, a huge bunch of hands would come and hold it steady for her - ahh, beautiful!