Last Day of...

Today was the last day of musical theater summer camp. We just watched our performance, and ate snacks that everyone had brought in. Before he movie we had recess, and we also watched people perform songs to music. The student would pick whatever song they would want to sing and the teacher would play the song on her phone, and she also filmed the person singing with her iPad.  It was really fun, but sadly today was the last day of summer camp. I'm keeping this blog post short because the device I'm using to write this is glitching and is making it hard for me to type. I mainly can't tap anything, I am using an iPad.

Performance Time!

Today was the second to last day of summer camp. Since I did musical theater, as I had explained in my previous blog, we performed today in front of a lot of kids and parents, also some teachers. When I first arrived at summer camp we ran through the entire show once and with remaining time practiced other parts. But after recess we practiced for a small amount of time and then, it was time for the performance. The first time we ran through the entire show fully, it took us 58 minutes because the teacher had to tell us to correct and also taking a long time to change the sets. On the day of the performance when we practiced it was only 47 minutes, we narrowed it down by over 10 minutes! For the real show it was a bit longer because of clapping. In the beginning everyone was super nervous, but since Belle had an opening song after the narrators, she was most nervous (also because she's the main character, the Beast is a main character too). The teacher gave us all a pep talk, and we did a circle squeeze to calm us down. The show was around 50 minutes but it felt like 10. It was incredibly fun. In the beginning of musical theater, it wasn't really fun because we didn't do the entire thing together with props and costumes. But because of us being able to change the sets, wear costumes, and use props, it was much more fun. After the performance, we all took pictures and cleaned up. Tomorrow, we're going to have a class party to celebrate our success! This musical theater summer camp has been super fun.

Summer Camp

For summer camp I decided to do musical theater. The show that we did for musical theater was Beauty and the Beast. We had to audition for roles, including narrator, for some reason. You could audition for five at most. First, we were given audition packets to practice. Then, we got a packet full of all the songs. Lastly, an email with a ten page script was sent to us and we printed it out. I got the role of Mrs. Potts, which is a teapot that is very round and is the mother to the cup named Chip. For my costume I got this huge puffy skirt that goes down to my shins. I also wear a cute teapot hat and an apron, plus a little thing around my neck. Chip, which is the tiny cup also wears the hat and the thing around the neck. The costumes are all really nice. The person who plays the Beast has to wear a fake beast beard and two gloves with creepy fingers. In other words, the beautiful costumes are well beautiful. We've worked really hard for over two weeks and we're performing on Monday. It'll be so fun!

First Day of Summer Camp

Today was the first day of summer camp, and the thing that was funny was that summer camp started on a Thursday (which is today) and ends on a Tuesday. It's only 14 days of summer camp. Last year it was 15 days, which was 3 weeks, except on July 4th there was no summer camp, so now that I think about it, summer camp lasts for 14 days. I did musical theater, and my sister did this movie making camp. We're doing Beauty and the Beast this time, and tomorrow, which is Friday is when we're auditioning. So far the musical itself seems nice. We're probably going to play games, and perform the musical. It started at 8:30 and ended at noon. After camp was over, I went to pick up my brother from basketball camp with my mom after she had picked up my sister and me. I'm not sure what to audition for, there's Belle and the Beast and other characters, but the teacher says that everyone has to audition no matter what role you want. In other words the teacher says that even though you want the ensemble/chorus you still have to sing in front of everyone as the audition. The teacher says that everyone will sing the song in front of others, and your classmates will rate you and star the best person that they think would do the best as that role.

The 2nd Day of Summer

Today is the third day of summer vacation, it was so boring. I didn't do anything, mainly because I didn't have classes while my other siblings did. First off, I woke up at 8:00 A.M. literally at that exact time. Then I read a book and ate breakfast. I felt sick, so I went to sleep for around an hour. Then, my siblings went to camp, and I stayed at home watching youtube. Yes, I know. Watching youtube, so fun... After that, I ate lunch at around 1 P.M., then I just read for an entire 2 hours. Then I went to the pool, got home showered, then ate dinner. After dinner, my family and I went to play basketball. Then we went home, and here I am writing this blog. It was such a boring and short day that I literally summarized it in around 5 sentences. Okay, maybe more than that, but you get the idea.

Family Outing

Today, my family and I went to Irvine Regional Park. We went there because for boy scouts, my brother had to do volunteer hours. He was supposed to work there for 3 hours. First, we dropped my brother off. Then, we went onto the little train ride, that was like a small and short 10 minute tour. After the train ride was over, my sister went on a horse and I didn't because I was too tall. After her 3 minute ride, we went over to ride a single surrey. It's where two people peddle and two children can fit in the front. We managed to fit one more person in the back but not peddling. We went places, and we peddled a lot for an entire hour. It was so fun, but I'm not going to describe it now. After that, we drove to In-N-Out for lunch, then we went home.

Testing

At school, we had to do around 3 week of testing. Because of testing, our teacher didn't give us as much homework. Which was nice, and we only had around one to two things, and if we had more it was short, or we didn't finish it in class. Now that testing is over, school's almost out! The sad part is that we have way more homework and it's back to 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes of homework. During testing times, we only would do around 45 minutes of homework at max. Well, that was me. But I think other people who take the time to check their math homework took longer. I don't usually check my math homework. Now that I think about it, no matter what we always have math homework. Math homework has always been the easiest, but since we finally finished the 11 lessons of math, we now have to go onto math that is for the next grade. None of it's particularly hard. It's really easy. Testing was not hard, but we didn't even learn the science part. Testing was easy, that was the good part. Also, we had fewer other tests, and less homework! That's much nicer. Now, we have to go back to schedule and kind of wrap up the year.