More Miscellaneous in my Life

Hiya Peoples! Ok I klnow that that is bad grammar but it is soo much fun to say! ANyway, I went to auditions to join the PCA choir, and to my great relief, I was accepted! I am soo happy!! On the downside, they want me to sing alto, and I prefer soprano, but I am just happy that I am in! Afterwards I decided to give all my closets and draws( or drawers call it what you want) and found this articel that I meant to put up on my blog months ago when we arrived in the states. Remember when I told you I went out to a seafood restuarant, I found this funny article on how to eat a lobster on the menu. I found the article and now I am putting it up for your reading pleasure. BTW, I don't eat lobster, i think pulling the shell off a dead animal is disgusting!!!!

HOW TO EAT LOBSTER
Having lobster for the first time? Want to impress your date with your impeccable table manners? Or, just want to save that nice shirt form getting water splattered? Here at the __________ ( I won't tell you the name of the restuarant. I only do publicity for people that I know!) we aim to make you look good during and after eating lobster! Read On!!
1. Put on the Bib.
Water can squirt when you least expect it. Plus, you'll look and feel like a kid again!
2. Twist off the claws.
Hint: the claws are those big sharp pointy things.
3. Crack open each claw and knuckle(the lobster's not yours)
Use the provided nutcracker or pliers, not a rock or your shoes, and especially not any nail clippers you might have in your purse(if you are a woman)
4. Separate the tail for the body and break off the tail flippers
You'll find a tasty morsel of meat in each flipper
5. Insert your fork into the tail and push the tail meat out in one piece
Be sure to remove the black vein that runs through thte length of the tqil meat before eating(G.B. note: EWWWWWWW!!!)
6. Separate the shell 9of the body form the underside by pulling them apart.
Discard the green substance called the tomalley.(G.B.note: EWWWWWW!!!!!!)
7. Crack the body in half.
Grab the underside of the body in both hands with the small walking legs on either sid. Lobster meat lies in the four pockets or joints where the small walking legs attach to the body. The walking legs also contain excellent meat you can remove by biting theleg and sqeezing the meat out with your teeth(G.B. note: How brutal!)
8. Use the wet napkins to clean up. (Clean yourself up, not the table.
Busers clean the tables, so you don't have to!).
9. Savor
Throughout the meal, take the time to appreciate. You'll be expirencing one of life's finest dining pleasures. ( G.B.And causing the brutal death and disection of a crustacean.)

I couldn't believe it!!!

I was soo happy! Remeber when I told you that the play that I wrote with my friend Emily was chosen for our team to perform, well there is more! We won an honorable mention for it too. I was soo thrilled! It really encouraged me for my future career(journalism), that I can write something that won an honorable mention!! I was really really happy!!!!

Our Teachers

One night, all of the teacher, except Miss Rogers, who was at a wedding, put on a cool play for us!

Mr. Burke

Miss Rogers

Miss Bates

Miss Autry
Without our teahcers all of the really cool things that we learned would not have been possible!

Making our set

Everyone who worked on the set except for Mike and Kat who helped us do the pillars!Without Kats help, they would have been all different sizes!

Tada!!!

Putting up the curtains for th final touch!

It is finally finished!!!!

Mr. Stautz and Mr.Holler were our teachers for scenic design and they helped us make our set.
As a scenic desiner, we had to come up with a set for our team play. Heather, Mike, and I were the scenic designer for our team. It was a lot of work. When we originally fot the flat, I thought that it was konda small. That was before we had to paint the whole thing! Talk about a mess! It was a lot of fun though! I don't think that I will be paintintg for fyun for a long time though! Those stupid pillars, which seemed so coolwhen on paper, were a real pain in the bu, I mean neck to get all the shadow effects on!!!

Chillin'

We crammed 32 or 33 people into an elevator in the Mac Kenzie building. ti was a tight sqeeze, but the elevator did go up even though it said that it would only take 16 passengers. who woulda guessed! Of course, I still recommend that you follow the rules and only put 16 people in a 16 people elevator.

Playing mini golf with Elizabeth!

Tristen made me a really cute Plankton(you know, form Spoge bob). She also made a baloon of me as a mermaid.Which I still have!

Gabe and Tasha playing air hockey.

Trying to look smart at the planatarium.
We were really busy all day long so when we had a break, we went a little, well, nuts. But you can't say that we didn't have lots of fun! One Saterday, they said that we had to stay in our dorms to let the councelors rest, so Tristen made everyone baloon swords(she twists baloons for a hobby), and we ran through all nine floors screaming and waking people up. It was loads of fun. Oh, if you live in Pen state, you can call Tristen to come twist Baloons for your next birthday party. She will twist for and Hour for only $35! Don't quote me in case I got some info wrong! See Tristen, I put in a plug for your business!

Costumes!

Me and my "slave" in our lovely costumes! We lost the regular sheet for me so I was wearing a fitted sheet, which is why my costume looks lumpy!

Naaman in his bandages with his servant.

The whole cast of Ruth in our "gorgeous" Bible costumes.

Ruth, Boaz, and Aarad, Boaz's servant! Aren't they the happy couple!

I know that this was a strange choice of picture, but it was the only close up that shows my whole dress! Besides Mike is my brother!
TO me, being a girl of cours, half the fun of Drama is the awesome costumes that you get to wear. SOme of the other theartical productions that I was in had costumes that were a total flop like the foam spice cake ones that I am trying really hard to forget! In our team plays we had to make our own costimes out of bedsheets. Joel and Emily were our COstume and makeup designers, and to everyone's surprise, especially their's , the costume that they made won first prize in the awards ceremony!

Rehearsals

ME and Mike going through our first scene where we are having a rather heated discusion!

All of the cast minus Joel. I was told that I look like I am a hobbit in this picture, but I hope that that is not true!

Naaman yelling at his family!

Me with my dad and bro. I always wanted a big brother so that worked out great!

I felt that I should put up at least one picture of the reader's theatre so here it is. I hope that it si not one of the blurry ones!
While we were at camp, we put on two big plays; a team play and Ruth( or reader's theatre for some). We put in hours and hours of rehearsals. It was actually a lot of fun, even though some of us were really tired of Ruth by the time that it was over(be honest,you know that you were!). I personally like the team plays the best. During the first week of camp, we had to write a play. Our team was assigned the story of Naaman, the man in the Bible who had leprosy. Anyway, Emily and I teamed up and we wrote our play and to my surprise (and delight) our play was chosen by Mr. Burke (who taught ua how to write scripts). Thank you Mr. Burke!!! In the play, we each had several jobs. In my case I was the "head scenic designer" and I wass an actor as well. I got to be Naaman's daughter, Jasmine. Jake was Naaman. It was really weird cuz I had to hug him in the play and we just couldn't get the hug right. By the way, when I originally wrote the play there was NO hugging.Heather was my Mom. And Mike was my brother. Joel and Emily were our servants. That part was fun,lol. EMily was not thrilled with her part, but she was able to put that behind her and she made a great slave!!!

My Speech and Drama Pals!!

Molly and Amber

Jake, Jonathan, and Joel

A lot of us girl with our favorite counselor, Jess. She is the one in Pink! We love you Jess!!!

Lucas, Ian, and Ben

This is the team that I was on. We are the Weepers! We even had this really great cheer(which I have no intention of ever doing again for any one in person!)

I am putting up lots of Pics of all the great people that I meet at camp! If you are not in these pictures,please don't be offended! Keep in mind that there were a lot of people there and that I can't get a picture of every single person up on my blog! Of course, I did try to get as many people as possible up here. I will never forget all the fun that we had together!