Insect Explosion!?

So um.... I lost track of summer and just had too much fun... and that is SO not an excuse right now.


Please wait for a few minutes while I go bang my head for even trying to make an excuse.




Okay. All better! Anyways, lately with school starting up I feel like I'm on the verge of my head exploding. First there was the whole get back into the grove of school thing, then my ETSO (French Social Studies) teacher, who is in charge of the France trip, say he needs more money, then there was the IB fees (I'm sorry, but when did it say that I needed to pay about 1000 dollars over 2 years for school when I signed up for this?), then there was Club Day, a fiasco in and of itself. Not to mention the amazing play!


So Club day.... Club day is more like a lunch, and period 3. But what it actually is... how do I say this nicely?.... Club day is the 1 time you can sign up to join all the clubs in school. There's improv, theater tech, The Torch (the school newspaper), Spanish club, Italian club, Saints TV (self-explanatory in my opinion), SALT (Student and Leadership Team), Art club, so on and so forth. But let me explain my version of Club day. Club day to me is just more psycho-babble crap for the elevens and twelves. You signed up for the clubs that you wanted to be a part of in grade ten and then you make sure you're still part of the club in grades eleven and twelve. This all happens in the half-hour (or so) we have for lunch. The grade tens.... The grade tens get period 3. They come in to see the clubs in three separate groups. Each new group gets a presentation of each club. So what the club is, what they do, who's in charge of the club (each club has two student reps. plus a teacher adviser), and when the club meets. Sounds simple right? It's totally not. The club I was representing was the Torch. We were placed in between the Rotary-Interact club (basically volunteer club and not very popular :)  ) and the media club (computer programming, game creation, photo manipulation and video editing. VERY POPULAR!).  So every time some one would be by my table they would ask, this is the media club right? I would respond Nope, but the Torch is way better! Universities love people who write!  Lame I know, but the Torch is strong this year with twelves who want stuff to 'pad' their uni applications.


But on to the best part of September (and quite possibly the best part of this year!), the school play! McCarthy, who is freaking amazing, decided what play she wanted to do the second last week of September (The Insect Play by the Capek Brothers), put together a crew (the tech people) and got an audition schedule together. All before last Tuesday.


Auditions went last Tuesday and Wednesday and the cast list was up Thursday morning. I'll have a full cast list soon, as rehersals just started today with the read-through. But I can give a basic list of people I know now.


My friend Richard is the Tramp (he's the lead :)  ), Heidi is Larva, Liam is the Ichneumon Fly, Paula is Mrs. Cricket, Skylar is Mr. Cricket, Julie is Cleo (nick-named the slutty butterfly by Liam and myself), Adam is the Yellow Ant Commander, Morgan and Sahara are sharing the role of the Chrysalis, Stephanie is the Intellectual Butterfly, Anna and Jean are the two messengers, Blanka is part of the Butterfly chorus and I am a moth and a butterfly.


There is only one thing I dislike so far about the play. As a butterfly I have to dance, but the choreography has been given to a grade 10, who I'm not sure has enough dance knowledge to choreograph. And I'm slightly peeved because I have 14 years of ballet training with some jazz, hip-hop, salsa and ballroom experience. I will for sure talk with McCarthy about this grade ten though and see why she was chosen.


So until a later time....