Day 38

I talked to Ed right when I got into my internship today about Honk! next week. We now seem to be on the same page about my objectives for working with him on this show. Yay!

First class was a little rough. The teacher did some activities that were really boring and not very active for the whole class. Only a few students were acting at a time and the rest were in the audience sitting, watching, and waiting. Not easy things for k-3rd graders to do. I even had trouble. It was more than a half an hour of doing this same activity. I left once for a coffee break and then whenever a student asked to go to the bathroom, I said "thank God" and went with them. This is something I NEED to remember for this age group. If I do this sort of activity again ALL students need to be involved, they cannot and should not sit still for that long. Or the class needs to be broken up into two or more groups to do that sort of activity. That was torture.

We wore name tags again for the 3rd day in a row. But instead of putting our real names on the name tags we put our Superhero names on them. So I had to create a name, and I have to say I am not very pleased with my name. Rainbow Queen. I have rainbow powers. Yeah, I know, a little lame. I had one boy come up to me and tell me it was a horrible name. :) I asked him if he could think of a better one, I would definitely love to hear it and use it. He could not. Boo. There were some great names in the group: Sea Swallower, Jackster, Super Flower Lily, Super Strong, Nature Saver, and so many more.


My second class was much better. I LOVE the way Anna (the teacher) had the students create their story. She picked out 3 songs that the students will dance and sing to, that kind of structure the story. The songs she picked out: "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis, "Hard Knock Life" from Annie, and "Monkey Around" from Seussical the Musical. She wanted the characters to somehow be in jail ("Jailhouse Rock"), then get on a pirate ship ("Hard Knock Life"), and then end up in a jungle ("Monkey Around"). She split the class into 3 groups. The first group had to make up the story from the beginning and how they got into jail. The second group had to make up the story from the jail until the pirate ship. The third group had to make up the story from the pirate ship until they were in the jungle. This method gave us a really interesting, original, and fun script that all the students contributed to. And it only took about 15 minutes to write the whole thing. Brilliant.

After work went out with Logan to get iced chai teas at a coffee place close by to CTC called Spyhouse. It was nice having some girl talk.Thank God, she is at this internship.

Sad news: probably will not be going to tomorrow night's midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. So so so sad. But it all makes sense. I am most likely be going to Friday night instead to that midnight showing. I just need to keep reminding myself that it is STILL opening day...even if I am not seeing it the first chance available. Oh well, at all I will see it. Still breaks my heart a little bit.