Ash’s blog

Well long time no speak eh?! My computer skills (and visitation) are becoming less and less frequent. However, on my way to breakfast I stopped and saw my old friend, covered in dust. Then i heard it… the sound of a small violin. As i stared into the screen of my once beloved computer i thought - ‘for old time’s sake.’ So I jumped on and came here to make a special effort to blog… of course now I’m hungry :P.

Yesterday we travelled up to Trafalga for a ’show and tell’ of our ensembles to the school… to pass the time, we started going through our ensemble - thats right ON THE MINIBUS!!! going down Princess freeway, boy we must have looked hilarious… a small bunch of kids on a bus with soft looking blocks making faces and talking rubbish while our driver tries hard not to have a mental breakdown over the directions

Overall i felt the trip was worthwhile (once we got there) Performing the entire ensemble all together for the first time infront of an audience was a challenge and we certainly know as a group where our strengths and weakneses lie within the ensemble, and what we have to do to alter the performance, to make it just that much better. I enjoyed watching the other school perfom and to see their perspective on the prescribed structure.

So with a week till performance night couldn’t be happier with where we are at - I know what i have to do to contribute to the group and the others the same. I’m ready for a fresh start Monday and I am starting to get excited about perofrming it to an audience!

Peace out, Ash xoxo

(Puff Daddies for 2007)

Masking tape. Oh yes we went there! The super ensemble is no more!! Seems without Clarry here the other group can’t cope and decide to take it out on our group. I’ll tell you the REAL story seeing as though Kara can’t…
There we were minding our own business when suddenly BANG! The enemy sprang on us like guerilla warfare and attacked us with their briefcases… so we fought back. What choice did we have? They stepped on our turf first - only the masking tape could stop them now… Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!
So - at this present time the drama room of Norwood Secondary College has been divided… by the dreaded masking tape! *dun dun dun* half of the rooms ours… and we graciously gave them the other half.

On a more dramatic note, the progress of our group this week has been outstanding! Since Monday, we have rehearsed and scripted at least 50%… we started the week with only one scene done, and now we have 5 and are currently working on the remaining 3 scenes left to script. I am really really really pleased with how far our group has come along this week and i think that’s partly because we knew we had to really get our bums into gear as we didn’t have a teacher to guide us for a week. We have weekly, no correction, daily plans of what we are going to do and where we are headed and i can confidently say that i am feeling a lot less stressed about having the work done on time… because it’s becoming more and more likely every lesson that we will.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Cheers! Ash xo

P.S. it won’t let me do my secret message but it’s no secret when i say the other group smell funny!!! Oh yes thats right… i went there… ya face.