Today was a day of blocking.
Blocking with little kids is hard because they don't always understand what you are telling them to do at first. But after a while, an hour in this case, we get the show blocked and then are able to run it one more time before going home. I just really hope that they have their lines down by tomorrow.
Blocking with middle schoolers is hard because they have attitudes and short attention spans. We have one kid who kept telling the other kids when they needed to talk. I had to put a stop to that, it was getting on my nerves so that I know it had to be annoying the other kids. But just like with the other show, we got the show blocked and here is hoping that they know their lines tomorrow.
I also had my midterm review today. Charles told me that I am doing a good job and to keep it up. Of course there was some room for improvement but besides that it was nothing to bad. Some of the things are just who I am. I am quiet and it is sometimes hard to tell if I am having a good time or not. I'm sorry, this is just who I am. I do my job and I get the work done. What more do you want?
Tonight was my first really night with someone to hang out with since Tressa is not on crew for Perfect Wedding. So we went to Target and bought some movies. We are right now watching Penelope. Its been a good day. This week is dragging on but I know that is only because I only have 8 more days to wait.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Day Thirty
Oh Mondays.
Two new groups of kids.
The morning group is a little older this week. I have one girl who I have had for the past three. so thats ... fun. The other kids seem great. We have one 5 year old who is one big ball of energy but is so cute!
I went and bought lunch today, because they don't feed us on Mondays. Except for every third Monday when we have change over. Guess what today is. Oh well at least I have a pizza in the fridge now.
The afternoon class is going to be my lest favorite this week. They are just so, I don't know strange is the only word that I can think to describe them. I am being hopeful that once we give them a script things will be better. But we have one girl who doesn't talk.... but wants to be in the play..... ok.
I went for my longest run since I have been up here today. It felt great! I just have to keep this up, because everyday I don't want to go running and then I am glad that I did. Oh what a love hate relationship I have with working out.
Two new groups of kids.
The morning group is a little older this week. I have one girl who I have had for the past three. so thats ... fun. The other kids seem great. We have one 5 year old who is one big ball of energy but is so cute!
I went and bought lunch today, because they don't feed us on Mondays. Except for every third Monday when we have change over. Guess what today is. Oh well at least I have a pizza in the fridge now.
The afternoon class is going to be my lest favorite this week. They are just so, I don't know strange is the only word that I can think to describe them. I am being hopeful that once we give them a script things will be better. But we have one girl who doesn't talk.... but wants to be in the play..... ok.
I went for my longest run since I have been up here today. It felt great! I just have to keep this up, because everyday I don't want to go running and then I am glad that I did. Oh what a love hate relationship I have with working out.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Day Twenty-Nine
Today has been a great day.
I slept in as long as I could, which granted was only till 11 but its better than nothing. Then it was time to get up and get ready to go to lunch. I found out the hard way that Sunday lunch is ALWAYS grits. I don't eat grits. I hate grits. So this meant that it was time to go off lot to get some food. I knew I should have gotten something healthy to eat, but I got Pizza Hut instead.
When I got back it was so sunny and beautiful that I wanted to spend sometime outside. SO I took a towel and a book and read outside behind the paint deck. I finished reading Slumdog Millionaire, which I must say is a really good book, and started reading A Million Little Pieces. So far its a good book. Then it was time for a run. I was going great at first. But I forgot to drink water when I came inside so I could run for very long since I was very dehydrated. Its ok though. Since it was the first time I had run in a few days it was nice to take it easy and just walk the trail a bit. I will finish working out later tonight.
Today was just the relaxing day that i needed. Tomorrow it is back to work, back to kids. But at least its a new group of kids. And its back to my normal schedule of 9-3. Only 10 more days till Josh gets here. And thats about it.
I slept in as long as I could, which granted was only till 11 but its better than nothing. Then it was time to get up and get ready to go to lunch. I found out the hard way that Sunday lunch is ALWAYS grits. I don't eat grits. I hate grits. So this meant that it was time to go off lot to get some food. I knew I should have gotten something healthy to eat, but I got Pizza Hut instead.
When I got back it was so sunny and beautiful that I wanted to spend sometime outside. SO I took a towel and a book and read outside behind the paint deck. I finished reading Slumdog Millionaire, which I must say is a really good book, and started reading A Million Little Pieces. So far its a good book. Then it was time for a run. I was going great at first. But I forgot to drink water when I came inside so I could run for very long since I was very dehydrated. Its ok though. Since it was the first time I had run in a few days it was nice to take it easy and just walk the trail a bit. I will finish working out later tonight.
Today was just the relaxing day that i needed. Tomorrow it is back to work, back to kids. But at least its a new group of kids. And its back to my normal schedule of 9-3. Only 10 more days till Josh gets here. And thats about it.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Day Twenty-Eight
Weekends lose pretty much all sense of fun when you have to spend them by yourself. Never the less I had a good day. Last night was a once again amazing Midnight Studio. The theme: Alabama Jones and the quest for the Hijab. So funny! I then came home and talked on the phone for a little while before hearing some commotion going on, on my front porch. It turns out a very drunk Chris and Micha where trying to tie us into our room but Teressa caught them. So we all hung out on the porch and talked for a while. Basically it was a fun way to end the night. I had been so tired all day but could not force myself to got to sleep for some reason but I did end up finally falling asleep around 4. I forced myself to sleep until 11 because for some reason my body really wanted to wake up at 8:30 this morning.
After lunch I decided to go and check out this pool that I had heard about earlier in the week. I think you might have had to go into the office and get a scan card thing and I just didn't really feel like doing that so I decided to find something else to do. I ended up driving up the mountain a bit and going to Jump Off Rock. I was thinking there would be water involved and since I was in a swim suite I figured what the hell. There was no water. But there was a very pretty view and some fun hiking trails. So I walked around there for a little bit and climbed on some rocks, which proved to be much easier said than done since I was in a skirt. After getting lost on my way back down the mountain I thought like ice cream sounded like a wonderful idea. I realized that I had never really walked around the strip downtown so I parked my car and started to walk around on the way to the ice cream place. It was packed so I ended up walking out. But I had seen another place to get ice cream down by my car so I headed down there. They were also packed. So I walked back to my car defeated. No ice cream for me. But on the way home I saw a McDonalds. I mean a McFlurry is better than nothing right?
Once back on lot I enjoyed my ice cream then decided it was time for a movie and a nap since everyone else was still in the show for at least another hour. I started watching Rachel Getting Married and got about 45 minutes in before I feel asleep. What I saw was pretty good. The camera work was getting on my nerves but that was about it.Then it was time for dinner. Leftover night, not the best night ever but since most people have family in town tonight there was plenty to choose from. I finally sat down and read a few chapters of my book after dinner and am now sitting on my porch just sitting around.
Like I said weekends aren't as much fun by yourself but I am still finding ways to entertain myself while everyone is busy. But some good news! Teressa is not on crew for the next show. So after tomorrow I will actually have someone to hang out with at night and on the weekends. Should be fun. Plus Josh gets here in two weeks. I think I will now go inside and watch some movies while I wait on a phone call/wait for people to get out of the show.
After lunch I decided to go and check out this pool that I had heard about earlier in the week. I think you might have had to go into the office and get a scan card thing and I just didn't really feel like doing that so I decided to find something else to do. I ended up driving up the mountain a bit and going to Jump Off Rock. I was thinking there would be water involved and since I was in a swim suite I figured what the hell. There was no water. But there was a very pretty view and some fun hiking trails. So I walked around there for a little bit and climbed on some rocks, which proved to be much easier said than done since I was in a skirt. After getting lost on my way back down the mountain I thought like ice cream sounded like a wonderful idea. I realized that I had never really walked around the strip downtown so I parked my car and started to walk around on the way to the ice cream place. It was packed so I ended up walking out. But I had seen another place to get ice cream down by my car so I headed down there. They were also packed. So I walked back to my car defeated. No ice cream for me. But on the way home I saw a McDonalds. I mean a McFlurry is better than nothing right?
Once back on lot I enjoyed my ice cream then decided it was time for a movie and a nap since everyone else was still in the show for at least another hour. I started watching Rachel Getting Married and got about 45 minutes in before I feel asleep. What I saw was pretty good. The camera work was getting on my nerves but that was about it.Then it was time for dinner. Leftover night, not the best night ever but since most people have family in town tonight there was plenty to choose from. I finally sat down and read a few chapters of my book after dinner and am now sitting on my porch just sitting around.
Like I said weekends aren't as much fun by yourself but I am still finding ways to entertain myself while everyone is busy. But some good news! Teressa is not on crew for the next show. So after tomorrow I will actually have someone to hang out with at night and on the weekends. Should be fun. Plus Josh gets here in two weeks. I think I will now go inside and watch some movies while I wait on a phone call/wait for people to get out of the show.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Day Twenty-Seven
I really do think that Friday's are my favorite day of camp, and not just because it means that the camp is over for the week.
Our morning camp was actually excited about being there today! I guess all it takes to get them to want to rehearse is to know that mom and dad are coming to watch them. Its really cute. They didn't need to feed any lines which was a first and everyone really seemed to love it. I even got a few hugs from some of the kids and was asked to take pictures with them. It made my morning. I was sad that my camera's batteries died before I could get pictures of them though. I was however able to run to CVS before my second camp to pick some new ones up. Office work wasn't so bad today. Charles showed up an hour after me so I basically got to do things at a very laid back pace. Then once he was back in the office there wasn't really a whole lot for me to do. Mainly we talked about what I wanted to do once I graduated, and CSU. Then at 3 he told me to just take a break until the kids showed up. yay for 45 minute breaks! I've really been slacking on reading Slum Dog Millionaire this week so it was nice to have a chance to catch up on that. The second camp was full of even more energy than yesterday. This is something I did not think was possible. We ended up taking all the kids upstairs to look at one of our little boys websites. Yes this week we had a little boy from LA who was been in movies and on some tv shows. He drove me up the wall but really was a great kid. Go look at his site he is one of the cutest things ever! joshuarush.net Once again the parents loved the show and the kids did a great job. Its a very proud moment I must say when everything turns out well. Especially after a week like this one where everything seemed to be going to hell.
Our morning camp was actually excited about being there today! I guess all it takes to get them to want to rehearse is to know that mom and dad are coming to watch them. Its really cute. They didn't need to feed any lines which was a first and everyone really seemed to love it. I even got a few hugs from some of the kids and was asked to take pictures with them. It made my morning. I was sad that my camera's batteries died before I could get pictures of them though. I was however able to run to CVS before my second camp to pick some new ones up. Office work wasn't so bad today. Charles showed up an hour after me so I basically got to do things at a very laid back pace. Then once he was back in the office there wasn't really a whole lot for me to do. Mainly we talked about what I wanted to do once I graduated, and CSU. Then at 3 he told me to just take a break until the kids showed up. yay for 45 minute breaks! I've really been slacking on reading Slum Dog Millionaire this week so it was nice to have a chance to catch up on that. The second camp was full of even more energy than yesterday. This is something I did not think was possible. We ended up taking all the kids upstairs to look at one of our little boys websites. Yes this week we had a little boy from LA who was been in movies and on some tv shows. He drove me up the wall but really was a great kid. Go look at his site he is one of the cutest things ever! joshuarush.net Once again the parents loved the show and the kids did a great job. Its a very proud moment I must say when everything turns out well. Especially after a week like this one where everything seemed to be going to hell.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Day Twenty-Six
Today was a much better day all around.
We took the AM camp to see Rutabaga! stories which is always a lot of fun. The hike is the most amusing part of my day actually. Between the fact that the kids are really short and therefore it takes them a really long time to get anywhere, especially this one little girl that we have that is the cutest thing I have ever seen b.c she barely comes up to my knee. And the fact that they are not used to physical activity and so hiking up a hill is a lot of work, it just makes my day. There are two kids in my morning group that really test my patients. They don't take instruction and have horrible attitudes. Its very hard to work with that but luckily the majority of the kids are great and love being there. The afternoon camp was amazing this afternoon! The kids have been doing so much better than Tania and I ever thought they would! So we spent the first hour or so of the time warming up and playing games. Its a lot of fun to just run around and act like your six every once and a while. And to see just how much it really does involve theatre it makes it even better. I then had a nice long talk with one of my roommates. I love days that end like that. Its so picturesque just sitting on the front porch talking.
We took the AM camp to see Rutabaga! stories which is always a lot of fun. The hike is the most amusing part of my day actually. Between the fact that the kids are really short and therefore it takes them a really long time to get anywhere, especially this one little girl that we have that is the cutest thing I have ever seen b.c she barely comes up to my knee. And the fact that they are not used to physical activity and so hiking up a hill is a lot of work, it just makes my day. There are two kids in my morning group that really test my patients. They don't take instruction and have horrible attitudes. Its very hard to work with that but luckily the majority of the kids are great and love being there. The afternoon camp was amazing this afternoon! The kids have been doing so much better than Tania and I ever thought they would! So we spent the first hour or so of the time warming up and playing games. Its a lot of fun to just run around and act like your six every once and a while. And to see just how much it really does involve theatre it makes it even better. I then had a nice long talk with one of my roommates. I love days that end like that. Its so picturesque just sitting on the front porch talking.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Day Twenty-Five
Today has been possibly the worse day of camp that I have thus far. I woke up this morning and had a horrible sinus headache. Note to self always take your medication. Then it was off to work. The little kids don't really want to be there this week. It makes it really hard to want to go to work. But I thought that the day would get better, I was wrong. Something went wrong at work. Some money got put on the wrong desk. Everything worked out just fine, but it all got blamed on me. It kind of put a downer on my whole afternoon. Luckily the afternoon camp went very smoothly today. The kids had their lines memorized and knew their blocking. It seems like everyone kinda had a slow/ down day today though. Both dinner and lunch where very quiet. It was ok though. After dinner I drove around for a little while and then I went for a run. I just needed to clear my head. I need to finish out this week with a good outlook. Because when it comes down to it, I really love my job and I don't want to start looking at it in a bad light.
I started writing today, just writing. It was about happiness. About how people deal with losing it. How I dealt with losing it. How I found it again. It was nice to write again. Something that wasn't depressing, something that wasn't a blog. Just to let stream of consciousness run its course and put to paper how I felt.
14 Days
I started writing today, just writing. It was about happiness. About how people deal with losing it. How I dealt with losing it. How I found it again. It was nice to write again. Something that wasn't depressing, something that wasn't a blog. Just to let stream of consciousness run its course and put to paper how I felt.
14 Days
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