THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!( i swear I didn't write this?)

Once again, this week has been filled with lots and lots of drama and performances!!

Monday, the year 7 and 8's had their arts and creativity day at school, along with the 5eme students from Victor Hugo. Two actresses and one writer was there with them the whole day, and they came from London. I of course wanted to meet the actors and have a little career chat with them SO MUCH, which I did at the end of the day. I was really excited to get to know how an actor's life would be. I got to talk to one of them, and before talking I already knew what she was going to tell me; that the pay wouldn't be that great, all actors don't get to be famous, it's very hard to get into business and to find an agent, you have to be a 100% sure you want to do this... Well, that's what I expected her to tell me; she did tell me all of that, but she also focused on all of the positive things I should do; just go for it, go and watch as many plays/movies/performances you can, London is an incredible place to get contacts... So I was a little bit surprised, so far what everyone keeps telling me when I say I want to be an actress is :" Oh well, goo luck, by the way did you know that 99% of actors are unemployed?!" Surely I know this is true and so boring to hear each time I talk about my future with someone, but you know I'm prepared for it and just like the actress told me "you've got to do what you like to do in life". I was really pleased to hear that, and pleased to know I could contact her if I had any further questions. At the end of the Arts and Creativity day, right after their performance, a woman came up to me congratulating me on our show. At first I thought she though I had just performed, so I told her"Oh, I wasn't in it" and I got a bit confused. But then she told me she was talking about the Talent Show, our Bloody mIST performance! It's pretty weird to have a performance and you get feedback about 4 days afterwards. She said that it was a really interesting and original performance, and that it got her think. "I've been thinking about it for 3 days now, it's incredible, I really do get your show/message now".We were pretty successful in this performance I think,most of our audience pretty got the message and what it was about.

Tuesday, we went to Victor Hugo  and we got to meet a director from the Shakespeare Royal Company who was also an acting teacher in the acting school in London, East 15. She was there for the Terminales L and S (which is year 13) who had their English exam on the play Anthony and Cleopatra, next week or something.

Wednesday, we worked on our individual design project. I think it's good to finally get to do some individual work, where you're not working as an ensemble all the time, it gets annoying at a point. I need to work a lot on it, we only have ONE WEEK LEFT!! So long, I'm in between step 3 and 4 from the action plan, which isn't so bad, but I feel I haven't really done anything, and I need to start making and building it.

Friday, we performed our Bloody mIST piece to the Victor Hugo students, the première class this time. Personally, I thought this was our worst one we've ever done (for bloody mist). We definitely didn't get any reactions at all from our audience, and I can tell, because I was staring into their eyes the whole time( héhé, I can do this now) and I kept the eye contact. Of course they looked away when I looked at them (good), but they all looked like freaking zombies to me. They looked so miserable and moody, it didn't somehow seem they enjoyed our performance? So I got a little scared.

Anyways, we had a couple of issues before starting. I was the only one setting everything up since everyone (NERALY) had their self-review appointments. First, One of our group members came very late and he had said that he would have come earlier, which he didn't. So we discussed how we were going to do the performance whiteout him, and last minute, he walked through the door. Still, I think we should have done the relaxation exercise before, to relieve all of our stress and frustration. Secondly, my whip broke (AGAIN) so I couldn't use it at all, which was a shame. Oh, and thirdly, I was very ill. I have performed ill several times before so it wasn't an issue for me, but my energy level was down to zero. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't bring out my dynamic and energetic side (perhaps I did, but I faked it all). I looked around my self and it seemed that nobody else was really energetic and full of enthusiasm in our piece, and, unfortunately, we were filmed this time. So now every time I will look back at this, I will be disappointed into seeing my poor performance on stage, where I know I could have done better if I wasn't ill.

That's it for this week!