My European Adventure

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Y-M-C-A

You know the moves, you know the words, so stand up and join in!

For the American performance we did the YMCA. Because it was a last minute thing, (like the British one) we had Americans and British people in it. Lizzy, her sister Katy, Ashlynn and I.

We had started off wanting to do something from the film Grease, then Wicked the musical. In the end we had 1 week till the dress rehearsal and Ashlynn said, "Why don't we do the YMCA?"

So we got Mr. Lowe to teach Lizzy and I the dance moves after Frisbee one Friday. We had 2 chances to practice before the dress rehearsal.

The performance was a major hit........

Katy and Ashlynn - dressed up as what I think are DJ's

I was dressed up as an Indian from the original song the Village People.

Lizzy was a cowboy also from the Village People.

While at dinner at Lizzy's house, we came up with the entire dance and we made big cardboard signs that had the letters on for us to hold up.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Consider yourself....

International Festival Time!

I was performing in 2 countries performances. The English one and the American one.

For the English one Kelly and I sang 'Consider yourself' from the well known musical Oliver.

We had to sing in cockney accents!

2 days before the performance, I was off school with a soar throat! I couldn't talk, which would be bad for Kelly if she had to sing it all herself. At the dress rehearsal I sounded really bad, but by the real performance I was feeling okay.

To watch it go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_2Atdv6m0s

Before the show, Kelly and I went outside, got hand fulls of dirt, and smeared it all over our faces, necks, arms and legs!

This was the first time that I've ever used a microphone to sing in front of a large audience!

Consider yourself our mate
We do't want to have no fuss,
For after some consideration, we can state
Consider yourself
One of us!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Happy Birthday Ellie-phant

We had lots of fun that night. We bought pizza from a nearby restaurant and ice cream as well. Adelina had made Ellie cupcakes that looked like the alien from Toy Story, they were very yummy.

We didn't have any real candles so we used someone's iPhone!

After eating cake and opening presents, we watched the movie - The Hole. It was awesome / scary at the same time.

I fell asleep sometime after the movie, but woke up multiple times because Adelina was SOOOO loud! She was screaming and jumping onto the air mattress!

I had to get up and leave before everyone else because we were off to see Cinderella with David and Andrew in Amsterdam. It was a ballet of Cinderella that took place during the blitz. Very well done. The sets were amazing too!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Awesome Epic Frisbee Photos

On that Saturday - Sunday I went round with 6 of my other friends to Ellie's Birthday party. We spent the whole time that it was light outside, playing frisbee. Then we got into setting up me with a camera and getting Fiona to throw the Frisbee and everyone else trying to catch it. Amelia was the one that caught it most of the time.