Macbeth

I feel like this play is coming up SO FAST, less than a month! I'm quite confident though and i think it's going to be a good show. It's really really challenging to make Shakespeare approachable and not unimaginably boring especially for a mostly teenage audience, but using lots of audience interaction and building in really strong characterization will, I hope, help the audience to feel more involved in something they might not understand fully. I'm also really excited about the costumes and sets and how they're coming together. The lines is my other issue, I'm confident with them up until the end of Act 2, so I still have a lot of work and it's so daunting but i won't give up! I know i can do it! But honestly, the 20th of November, when this is over couldn't come any sooner, it's been fun but very stressful and I can't wait to be reminiscing and looking back on this as a very positive experience :)

Tennis

I've been practicing with the German School Tennis Team every Saturday and I am so happy with the amount of improvement that I've made. While it was hard for me to even get the ball over the net and into the court at the beginning of the year, I now feel much more confident and have even won a few matches. The coach as really helped me improve on my swing, I never realized that i was just doing wrong! It took sometime to adjust to a new grip because the movement felt a little awkward at first, but I'm really getting into the feel of it now and I must say i really love Tennis. The coach is trying to organize for us to start playing matches against other schools soon so I'm excited about that, as long as we don't have to face ISK!

Organizing the Inter School Talent Show

This year it is Artsco's responsibility to organize the annual ISK Inter school talent show. This has been a really stressful job, especially since we had so many people come to the 3 auditions we held. It was really hard because in order to keep the show around 2 hours we had to cut a lot of good people, and it was even harder when they were my friends, but i think this has taught me a lot about taking charge and standing firm by your decisions even when your friends beg you to reconsider after you had to cut them. We narrowed it down to 20 acts, which is already quite a lot but I think we're going to have an excellent show! We're having a dress rehearsal on Wednesday the 26th and on Thursday we will meet up as a group to do decorations before the actual show is on Friday the 28th. I'm really happy with how much Artsco has been able to accomplish over the year and after this I'm hoping to organize another service opportunity before the December break.

Swim Galla

I had my first swimming Galla of the year on the 15th and 16th of October, NASA's AAA Galla. Despite feeling really sick on Saturday i still went in to swim the 200 IM (Individual Medley) and actually ended winning it despite feeling terrible so i felt really good about that! I did feel horrible afterwards though, was dizzy and almost threw up. Sunday i felt much better and came in to swim the 100 IM, 50 Breast and 50 Free and ended up winning the 100 IM and placing third in the 50 Breast. Again, good results :). Due to Macbeth taking up so much of my schedule, I haven't been at nearly as many Gallas this year as last, but it was exciting to compete again and I'm hoping to be able to participate in more after Nov. 19th when Macbeth goes up. Until then, its just lots of practice!