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.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Monday, 7 November 2011
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.'
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.
Friday, 4 November 2011
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?
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?
Thursday, 3 November 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
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)
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)
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
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!
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!
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