Learning Log 7

Awesome!After toiling for a period of three months we finally manged to put together a very entertaining play which lived up to our expectations.It was an occasion of rejoice when our performance went about smoothly and it was flawless.All this dates back to the time when Mrs Woo used the number selector to indicate which groups we will be in.It was a tense and terse moment for us.I would be working with the same members until the final performance and I was crossing my fingers hoping that I would be put into a good group.Finally the moment I had been eagerly waiting for arrived.I was put into group 1.We had Phania,Sanjna,Jing Ying,Fatimah,Dewi,Justin,Clarence and Kai Leong.We knew that we had a great group of individuals and we had the potential to do well.We hereby chose Phania as our director.We knew Phania had good leadership skills and had the potential to lead us.Now we had to choose our roles.Before this play I wanted to be either Capulet or Tybalt but in the end decided to be Romeo instead because of the limited choice.I was elated to be in one of the main leading role and was ready to give in all my efforts.The following week we began our practices for the play.It all went really well and everyone were really good in their respective roles.Phania was amazed to see my airs and graces.It all went really well as we finished the play with ease.We were instructed by Phania to memorize our lines by heart.The sooner the better,so that we could practice more.This was a arduous task as memorizing old English was no easy feat but I managed and succeeded in doing so.Then we had to sort out the props,backdrops and costumes.Since the Romeo and Juliet of the play were Indians we decided to follow the theme bollywood.We gave the job of finding the costumes to Fatimah.We were all doing really well.We thought of making a curtain as our backdrop.Also we decided to have a dance before the actual play.Mui Siew came up with the moves.We took around three weeks to master the dance.Justin was the laughing mock of everyone as his body was too stiff.Next we had to master the kissing part which was the limelight of the whole play.It was really tough performing the fake kiss.It was no easy task.We were going to have two different types of kiss.For the first kiss I used my hands to cup her face and then kiss my own palm.The second kiss was a bit harder,I had to twist my whole head so as to cover her head and then had to hug Sanjna.This was the most difficult part as I had to twist all the way so as to cover Sanjna's mouth.We did this over and over again to master it.We took around three weeks to truly master this and we could perform it really well only two days before the actual performance.My group members were escatic when we mastered it.We had some last minute changes the last day also.We managed  to get our costumes for free.Each of us had their own costume and Lord Capulet was to have a huge belly.We managed to make quite a good table and curtain.That's how the event occurred.I felt that I gave in all my efforts.We have developed good friendship and learnt how to work together as a team.Phania had this rule whereby if you forget any lines or fail to make up for any of the practices we would have to pay.I feel that was a quite a good way to prevent any of us from being playful or ignorant.I have no suggestions to make and would think that this is a very good activity.