Showing posts with label play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label play. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2011

Operation Christmas Child

I'm still worn out from the weekend.  I was at the school enough for the play that it doesn't even really feel like I had a weekend.

I got to start off my Monday with an AP U.S. history test.  Luckily, it wasn't bad.  As far as AP U.S. history tests go, it was fairly average.

I was looking forward to actually going home after school today, but I ended up staying after for about fifteen minutes with Ji.  She was calling this college for information and wanted someone there for moral support.  After she was done with the call, she asked if I was interested in going to the Dollar Store with her to get things for Operation Christmas Child.  We're supposed to have everything for that turned in to school tomorrow.  We stopped at my house, so I could get some money, and my brother and sister ended up coming with us.  We looked around the Dollar Store for a while and found some stuff.  We got a pretty good mix of hygiene items and small toys.  We even saw Randall (who I've known since 4th grade) while we were there.

Once we were done shopping, I just headed home to sit around the house for the rest of the day.  I'm very happy to say that I had no homework today.  It was nice to have a day with no play practice and no homework.  I was even able to watch episodes of both Naruto and How I Met Your Mother.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Barefoot in the Park: Opening Night

Today's been a long day, so I'm going to try and keep this short.  Things were pretty uneventful during school today.  The most noteworthy things were that we got our Key Club shirts (which look so awesome), and some of us got free ice cream during lunch.  Other than that, nothing that happened during school really sticks out.

After school, however, is a different story.  Tonight was the first performance of our fall play: Barefoot in the Park.  In case you didn't know already, I'm on stage crew.  I wasn't nervous at all at school today.  I didn't really start getting nervous until I showed up at the school at five o'clock.  I was so scared I was going to screw something up and ruin the play.  Luckily, nothing like that happened.  Before the play and all during the first act, I was in one of those moods where I was laughing at absolutely everything because I was so nervous.  I finally calmed down by the time it was intermission.

Everyone in the audience seemed to enjoy it.  Haley and Jordan seemed really excited about it when I saw them afterward, and they've even posted great comments on facebook.  Ji also told me it was good although she wasn't as hyper about it, and everyone else seemed to have enjoyed it.  I think everyone did a great job.  I know a lot of the actors were nervous in the beginning, but they were great.  I just hope tomorrow and Sunday's performances go just as well as tonight's.