Sleepless Nights
Once in a blue moon there comes a completely action-packed weekend when all your prior engagements get lined up right after each other, leaving you flitting from one to another with barely any time to breathe. This past weekend was one such example.
Thursday brought our school’s first student-organized Performing Arts Night, which comprised of displays of musical talent by several students and the first ever play staged by the Drama Club (of which I am a member).
Friday’s main event was the annual Cultural Day, where students from various countries set up stalls in the basketball court and perform dances on stage. As a member of the grade 11 dance troupe, I spent the greater part of my day rehearsing our dance and performing it on stage.
And on Saturday, I had to take the last level of the DELF exam (the French equivalent of the TOEFL), which proved to be extremely difficult and energy-draining.
Of course, in between I had to squeeze in O Level Art prepwork for the final exam, past paper practice for the upcoming externals and a few hours of study for two exams on Sunday.
Needless to say, it was all incredibly fun.
Lights, Camera…Action!
Meet Prin, the arrogant, insensitive principle (Prin the principle – how original) of a teachers’ college in London. Her noble ideas are somewhat marred by the fact that she believes everyone is underneath her and that no one is good enough to be admitted into her school.
The character appears in a 1989 play by Andrew Davies, which begins with a scathing, extremely hilarious monologue by Prin herself, addressing ‘prospective students’ at the school’s Open Day.
Today, I delivered this monologue to an audience consisting of the most part of my grade and quite a few teachers, including the real Principal of the school. I had the rare opportunity of calling them ‘illiterate’, ‘mediocre’, and to top it off, accusing them of existing in the ‘benighted state’, without getting into trouble.
My take from my first acting experience?
Drama is Unbelievably fun.
Hello!
As blogs are the latest accepted form of expression, I’ve decided to ‘jump on the bandwagon’ and create one of my own.
The name might require a little explanation. While casting my eye about for an appropriate title, I came across M-W’s ‘Word of the Day’ sitting in my inbox. The word was symbiosis; 1 : the living together in close association of two dissimilar organisms especially when mutually beneficial, or 2 : a cooperative relationship.
The second part of the definition is the perfect description of what I want to make this blog about; the harmony of forces within someone that makes them so diverse and multi-talented.
From my high-school record, I appear to be a predominantly left-brained person. I like math (shocker!), physics, and just generally, all the Science-y subjects.
However, step into my room and you feel like you’re in a makeshift art studio with paintings, sketches, and pictures stuck up everywhere (along with piles and piles of mess!); an image that, to most people, completely contrasts with the one depicted in the previous paragraph.
This blog is for people like Da Vinci, who can be engineers, artists, writers, mathematicians, and whatever else they want to be. To symbiosis of the half-brains!
