1/ 11-17 /09
Recovering from jet lag I found myself in an unreal situation, rehearsing with 30 English speaking performers from across the English speaking lands, hailing from Scotland to South Africa, Idaho to Australia, and England to Virginia. We walked every day from our quant hotel with very little hot water to a beautiful villa with a view of the sea were we spent each day rehearsing children’s fairytales and skits all with the theme of teaching English through theater, and the crazy thing is this was all real, exaggerated to barest minimum and I am a person who likes to tell a story, this is pretty much as basic as I can describe.
The first week of training looked something like this:
Day Night
Mon Rehearsal Wine and Food
Tues Rehearsal Wine and Food
Wed Rehearsal Wine and Food
Thurs Rehearsal Wine and Food
Fri Rehearsal To much Wine and Food
Sat Rehearsal Far to much Wine
Sun Recovery and Lines
At this point I had went from awe, to horror and complete fear of the amount of work we had to learn when we finally found out the groups we would be touring in on the first Saturday. Meaning we had about a week to learn 6 fairy tales and 8 skits, yikes, before we were tossed out on our own to hit the ground running and see how bad we crashed and burned. I ping ponged back and forth between excitement for the amazing experience I was embarking on and utter fear bordering on the easiest plan of escape. I chose to stay with the adventure, and the group I ended up with only made me more excited for such an adventure. I could have ended up with any of 29 lovely wonderful international folk, and been quite happy, as over two weeks we bonded so much. I have made friends with a collection of English, some Scots, Aussies and others ranging from South Africa to Chicago, Virginia and New York. Tour Roma Next Entry.
(and yes im about three weeks behind, ill catch up I promise., ps- my myblogger is being a punk and not uploading photos so im working on it because this blog is much better with pictures)
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