Day 45

3 weeks today and I will be making my way back home. This internship has really gone fast.

Not too much to report about HONK! Just learning songs and dances, and blocking scenes. The biggest thing I did today was work with the cats by splitting up their lines (the cat is usually played by one person, but in our show we are having two) and then reading through it with them. This was really fun and exactly what I want to be doing. Helping the actors with their parts. These actors had a great idea about their cats...they want one to be smart and one to be dumb. So we were discussing how to make these lines fit those descriptions. I loved it. I told Ed at the end of class that I really enjoyed this and would love to do more of that kind of work. Ed said he would try but that their wouldn't be that many opportunities for it....grrrrr. I am getting sick of turning music on and off, making copies, watching him teach the cast how to act and dance, and etc. I know it comes with the intern territory....but it can get kind of boring sometimes. BUT I do really love watching the students work though, that is very entertaining and Ed is very good at what he does. I just hate having to shush the students that are not onstage. That is not fun at all. Oh well, there are always going to be ups and downs to being an intern.

Lunch went better today...but not very much. We started off playing Wax Museum, which is a stupid game in my opinion but the kids really enjoy it. But it's a game where people get out and then can't play anymore. So the kids that weren't playing anymore were running and screaming around the room. So I switched the game to a game called People, Trees, Storms that I learned at Grand Valley. It was much more successful. It didn't exclude any students and it had the students running....the goal was to try to get some of the energy out. I think we are going to play this game tomorrow as well since it was so successful. Yay! Even though we had so much success with the game, there were still students that didn't want to play but instead wanted to run around the room...it was very distracting. Oh well, can't win them all.

After the internship I went out for coffee with Melanie who is a new intern from Memphis. It was very nice chatting with her. And I had been craving an iced chai ALL FRICKIN' DAY!

Mostly likely tomorrow, a group of interns and I are going to see the musical Little Shop of Horrors. I have never seen this show but I have always wanted to. Anna, who was a teacher I worked with last week, is the director of this show. I am really excited to have an "intern outing" and to see another show.