The class residental weekend was pretty interesting. It was quite fun actually. We stayed at a two floor house which was booked for us. The house had about five, six, or seven rooms. I had brought my getter blaster so we could have some music to listen with and use it for our rehearsals. We had to think about what we were going to do for our performance. We had split up in to three groups, then it was up to us to present our work to the Instructor by Sunday.
The first night there at the house we all went out to this jazzy bar and had a nice atmosphere. The bar was an open stage where anybody could be able to go up and play with the guitar. Eddie, a classmate in his mid-twenties, went on up and played the song and sang to "Its probably me - Sting".
I think it was that next morning that we were awakened by one of our classmates, Mary, at 5.30am or 6am in the morning playing loud culture music playing her tamberines. I went downstairs and I saw her in the livingroom jumping up and down. I couldn't believe she was wide awake and full of energy. I wasn't pissed off but it was interesting how Mary was full of life that time of the morning.
I remember Mary who was in her late fortys who was a nice woman and nice to talk to. She expressed very well with her that some of the women in the group said something and it offended Mary and became very hostel and it made her feel uncomfortable. Lizzy, who was a blond butch woman. I think she was a lesbian because never discussed about boyfriends or that she was married or anything. For some reason I had my doubts about Lizzy, and I knew she was going to start up something and she did with Mary. Mary felt left out from the class and I thought it was wrong for them to do that. I don't blame Mary for leaving the class completely during the residential weekend.
As for our group, we didn't start working on our piece until that Sunday and we had to present to the Instructor with something. The five of us sat down in a room and started to put our minds together what to do. We decided a comedy act. I had such a buzz with our production C'mere. I was very nervous about performing on stage but at the same time it was fun. C'mere was such a great skit that we had created.
The show was completed and our drama class was finished. It was kind of sad after the production because it meant we all had to depart and go on our own ways. It was interesting how we have so much fun with something and suddenly have to finish it up. Saying goodbye was really sad for me. I really enjoyed the performance of C'mere and I wish we had performed several times before finishing off with our class.
To wrap it up, as a closure we each had to have a chance to say something, kind of like our final words and what we thought about the classes. I thought that was a nice way to close up the class before we all went to our separate ways.
Today, I keep in touch with two of the performers who worked with me on C'mere. Bernadette and Arny. They were such great performers.
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