So it's the end of week 2 of term 3, and I'm really tired. I think it's because we've been doing animals for two weeks now, and animals are really energetic! Especially ones like mice and spiders. Phew...
Oh, I suppose I should explain what I mean by "doing" animals. We've been exploring how animals move, not in a superficial, or what the teachers call "Disney" way, but looking at how animals actually move and seeing what that brings out in us. For the first week we simply moved like the animals, but in the second week we've been putting them in human situations, which is really fun. Some examples:
-A chicken daughter introduces her parents to her new boyfriend, who happens to be a vulture.
-A bad-techno club is inhabited by a gecko DJ, a spider bartender, a Komodo dragon bouncer, and lots of partying ants.
-Two walruses dance together at a high-school party.
Needless to say, there's a lot of hilarity that ensues. It's also been fun finding out what "our" animals are: my current theory is that I'm a mix of giraffe, ant, and red panda. Thoughts?
And then we move on to masks! I don't know yet exactly what we're doing, but it sounds like we'll be using our animal work to create characters, which should be awesome. And so life at LISPA continues, as awesome as ever!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Highlights of break
Back to school tomorrow! But first, some of the high points of break:
-Watched all 8 episodes of "Oz and James Drink to Britain", the most amazing BBC show of all time: basically, two guys drive around the UK getting drunk and making fun of each other. Awesome. But seriously, it's educational too: did you know that whiskey is basically distilled beer? I sure didn't.
-Went to a football match, learned that the proper way to cheer West Ham United is "Uuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm auuuhhhhhhh oooooooooaaaaaiiiiiiehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" and that their official song is about bubbles. I love England.
-Read Watchmen and saw the film: infinitely preferred the ending of the film because it was elegant and actually made sense. I also spent fully a third of the movie hiding in Roger's armpit from the violence. The violence in the comic was also plenty graphic, so it's not like I didn't have any warning, but pictures in a book don't spurt and they don't make squelching noises. Blech.
-Visited Oxford Street, Trafalger Square, the Tate Modern, Covent Garden, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye (actually went on it too! pretty awesome view), and the Prime Meridian in Greenwich!
-Got my woodsy fix at Hampstead Heath, watched dozens of gulls, coots, and ducks vying for bread being throw by people standing ten feet away from a sign that said "Please do not feed the birds".
-Went to Cambridge and tried my hand at punting... after learning to do it in class! Much harder in real life.
-Was introduced to Guinness for the first time, and loved it! Definitely one of my favorite beers so far.
And that was about it! So much fun, went by much too quickly. And now back to our regularly scheduled program, which sounds like it will involve imitating animals, making and wearing masks, and of course all the other acrobatic, funny noise making, ridiculous shenanigans we get up to over at LISPA. I can't wait! :)
-Watched all 8 episodes of "Oz and James Drink to Britain", the most amazing BBC show of all time: basically, two guys drive around the UK getting drunk and making fun of each other. Awesome. But seriously, it's educational too: did you know that whiskey is basically distilled beer? I sure didn't.
-Went to a football match, learned that the proper way to cheer West Ham United is "Uuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm auuuhhhhhhh oooooooooaaaaaiiiiiiehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" and that their official song is about bubbles. I love England.
-Read Watchmen and saw the film: infinitely preferred the ending of the film because it was elegant and actually made sense. I also spent fully a third of the movie hiding in Roger's armpit from the violence. The violence in the comic was also plenty graphic, so it's not like I didn't have any warning, but pictures in a book don't spurt and they don't make squelching noises. Blech.
-Visited Oxford Street, Trafalger Square, the Tate Modern, Covent Garden, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye (actually went on it too! pretty awesome view), and the Prime Meridian in Greenwich!
-Got my woodsy fix at Hampstead Heath, watched dozens of gulls, coots, and ducks vying for bread being throw by people standing ten feet away from a sign that said "Please do not feed the birds".
-Went to Cambridge and tried my hand at punting... after learning to do it in class! Much harder in real life.
-Was introduced to Guinness for the first time, and loved it! Definitely one of my favorite beers so far.
And that was about it! So much fun, went by much too quickly. And now back to our regularly scheduled program, which sounds like it will involve imitating animals, making and wearing masks, and of course all the other acrobatic, funny noise making, ridiculous shenanigans we get up to over at LISPA. I can't wait! :)
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