Day 43

It's very hot here. Yucky. But thank God my apartment AND CTC are air conditioned. Just walking from the apartment to CTC and later in the day back to the apartment, were enough to really get me sweating.

Today I started the 3 week intensive for middle schoolers. These kids are really talented. Seriously. We sang through some of the songs, and they picked them up really quickly AND sounded good. Then we learned some dances (which I had to participate in) and they picked up on the dances also really quickly...whereas I, did not. :) Dancing is one of my goals this year to work on more...if that means taking a class at GVSU or really listening to Ed when he teaches us these dances, I will do it. Ed is really talented. He went away for about a half a hour to a hour and choreographed a whole dance and then  came back and remembered it enough to teach the kids....plus his dance moves are really impressive. He is so talented and knows what the hell he is doing.

Dancing was really the most I did. Other than making copies, taping the floor (this is when you tape what the real stage is going to be like on the rehearsal floor and what kinds of things will be on stage so the actors will get use to the area they will have), and other intern like things. I also did a lot of watching, which was fun, since these students really know what they are doing. And if they don't know what they are doing, then they still try. It's going to be a really impressive 3 weeks.

Tomorrow afternoon we are holding auditions for their roles. They had auditions to get into the show in April but waited until now to give them their parts. So today, we tried for an ensemble feel which we will have in a lot of the show. This is nice so everyone felt good about getting into the show, but no one felt like shit because they didn't get the part they wanted etc. But now they will know each other a little bit more and know where Ed is going with the show. So hopefully the rejection won't be as hard...but we'll see.


I lead lunch today with Briana. This meant that I had to go all the way to the basement (my class is on the 4th floor again!) and eat lunch with the little kiddies and then take them into the dance studio and entertain them. Today we played a game called Sandman. This game is like Assassins, if you know that game. A sandman is secretly picked by me (students close their eyes, and I tap one of their heads). Then the students go around greeting each other, by shaking each others hands. When the sandman greets someone, she/he needs to wink at them. The person who got winked at then needs to count to 5 and then fall to sleep (lay down on the floor). The players need to try to figure out who is the sandman. If they want to guess who it is, they need to yell out STOP! If they guess wrongly, they "go to sleep". It was kind of a successful day. It really didn't keep their attention for 30 minutes though...so next time (tomorrow) we are going to do two games instead of one.


After the internship I stayed at CTC and helped out Ritchy. Ritchy also is a costume/wardrobe person (he was the education assistant who took over for that sick teacher). He has worked in wardrobe for about 10 years. He is doing costumes for the show Anything Goes at a neighboring theatre. I offered my help a week ago and he took it. Especially since his first dress is tomorrow and he still has a lot to do. So I stay there for about 2 hours and sewed a lot of snaps. Which is a pain in the ass job but I know Ritchy appreciated it. It was my good deed for the day. :)