thoroughly enjoyed this week, we put on a great event and my group interpretation team placed first at our first competition of the season. The taste went off with hardly a problem, there was a huge rush at first and it was a bit cramped but other than that it was pretty great. At the beginning of this event I thought that the community wouldn’t want to go and the restaurants wouldn’t want to give away free food, but the taste group was able to prove me wrong, and I’m proud of them for it. On another note I’m so tired after this weekend, I haven’t talked about group interp much in my journals but it’s one of the tings that I truly love doing. This weekend was the first of potentially three competitions and if we do well in the next competition next weekend then we might go to state and compete. GI is a form of competitive theater that uses no props, minimal costuming, and the set can’t have anything to do with the plot. We have 30 minutes to perform a piece that can be taken from a book, movie, musical, or anything else that has been published. This year we are performing Dear Evan Hansen, it was originally a musical on Broadway but we decided that it would be a great piece and we were right. We were given first place at the Joliet West Fest Invitational with four of our cast members, including myself, earning individual awards of all cast which just means that the judges liked our character and voted to give us the award. It was definitely a fun weekend but it isn’t even close to the end of it for me, with another competition this weekend my practices are only going to be just as crazy and intense as before. My only problem is figuring out when I’ll have time to write my business plan!

03/11/2018

This last week was really kinda just normal but also good. While it might not have been the most eventful, I was really glad it happened because we got a lot of work done. The dodgeball tournament is going to be a great success, I already know. We don’t have a large group but we have, in my opinion, some of the best kids in the class and we have some amazing ideas. I am worried about the dinner however because it can’t be done in this community. The amount of people and organizations just doesn’t allow an event like this to happen. Plus, like how the dodgeball team has publicity from previous years, the taste of Sauk Valley has left a bit of a bad taste in the mouths of lots of people, especially the businesses they are going to target. I’m just glad that I volunteered for this group because I can guarantee at least one success.

11/12/2017