Drama Club - 4/28/08

Today was the first day back after a nice, week-long vacation. I have to say that I was not looking forward to returning. It's not even a matter of the kids. It's just that working, in general, pretty much sucks. Let's face it. If I had a choice between working and not working, I would take the latter. The other news was that I agreed to take an acting gig for the Summer which means that I will be leaving the clubs a little earlier that I had originally planned. So there was a sense of calm as I entered the club today. It started off very nicely. I was in good spirits. I joked with the kids. I learned to laugh at their little idiosyncrasies. It was quite liberating. Then I had them learn a new speech for the Spring show. The best way for them to do this is in the form of a game. They toss around a beanbag while saying one word at a time. If they drop the beanbag or miss a word, then they lose a turn. They actually like this game and I think that we'll just do this everyday until the end. After a few rounds of this, we started rehearsing the scene. This is always a problem. The way that I have it staged is that half the kids will enter from one side and the other half enters from the other. Since I can't be in two places at once, it means complete lawlessness for the side I'm not watching at that moment. Let's just say, after a few minutes, I couldn't just laugh it off. But we managed to get through it. Again, it's going to be a really scene. They just have to commit to it. Hopefully they will.