Moving house

We're moving! 2 Henniker Road has finally worn us down with its dampness, mold, broken radiators, peeling wallpaper, leaks in the roof, broken appliances, rats and mice in the kitchen, and condoms (yes, condoms) in the backyard (no, we don't know how they got there). We're also getting sick of walking to and from school passing myriads of nasty-smelling fried chicken shops, a brothel, and several construction sites on the way. Thankfully, we're doing well as a household and most of us want to stay for the summer, so our current plan is to find a nice 5 or 6 bedroom house in Plaistow, which is a nice area near the school, and move in ASAP. I'm sure there'll be lots of stories coming out of this, so I'll be sure to keep y'all posted.

In other news, school is becoming more and more demanding. We had to make our own masks and use them this past week, which was a bit of a trial for all of us. We've moved out of the realm of animals and into masks, so we've been working with our own masks, larval masks (which are somewhere between human and animal), and this week we'll be using expressive masks, which is quite exciting. Mask work is quite difficult: it requires a very high level of focus, since our bodies need to be on the same "level" as the masks, and we need to be in absolute control of every movement, or the mask doesn't play. Needless to say, it gets frustrating, and that frustration is added to by the fact that we're all getting more and more fed up with each other, having worked together for around 6 months now in really really really close quarters every day. Our next creation theme is "the brawl," which is quite well timed, I think, and should be a lot of fun, especially since in acrobatics class we're learning a martial art called Hap-kido (sp?) and we're encouraged to use those moves in our creation. So we get to beat each other up, and have fun doing it! :D

So yeah, I'm struggling ahead, watching the time go by really really quickly (the year is nearly three quarters over!). Life as usual at LISPA!