This is going to be a pretty quick post today. I was working at Junior Theatre from 8am to 7pm today, and will be doing the exact same thing tomorrow. This is following another long day this past Saturday.
There was an event in Davenport called Juneteenth that Junior Theatre went to all day Saturday. We set up a table to do facepainting which is what Junior Theatre does usually at these kinds of outreach events. Morgan and I also tried to play games for 15 minutes every hour, however that didn't work too well. Everyone was moving around a lot and didn't stay in the same place long enough for us to start a game. We did get to lead some games to a group of 5 or 6 kids that happened to come to get their faces painted at the same time as we were getting ready to start games. It was a very long, interesting day, filled with literally thousands of mayflies. I've gotten very good at face painting and still have nightmares of mayflies crawling all over my body and swarming around my face.
In other news, camp started on Monday and it has been quite the adventure. I started all by myself on Monday because Morgan was at a dentist appointment. Our group of kids are a little bit of a handful. We have 9 9 year olds and 1 10 year old. None of them really ever sit still or stop talking. But they have calmed down some since the first day. Some of this I think is because they're getting used to each other and over the novelty. Part of it is also how I've learned to handle it. If the kids are talking Morgan and I just sit and stare at them. They realize pretty quick what's going on and we remind them that they're wasting their own time and they get quiet pretty quick.
The first day was a lot of playing theatre games and introducing them to theatre terms and basics. Yesterday we started talking about what they wanted to write their play about. Every group is focusing on or incorporating the weeks theme of Greece somehow, and our group has decided to have the gods and goddesses of Greece competing in their own version of the olympics. But when they don't invite Persephone, Hades' wife, she tries to ruin all their fun because she's tired of being left out. Morgan and I finished writing it based off their ideas today and we got to read through it a couple times and begin blocking. We have a couple kids that have complained that they don't have enough lines, but it hasn't become a major issue yet. Tomorrow we get to tour the props and costumes cottage and begin to pick out things to use for our show on Friday. Well I'm off to bed. Those kids wore me out and it's going to be another early and long day tomorrow. More to come.
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