"Why, how impolite of him!"

"Why, how impolite of him. I asked him a civil question, and he pretended not to listen to me. That's not at all nice." 

Yes, for performance we are doing monologues. We had a whole lot to choose from and when Nicola asked us which one we wanted to do I had no idea. They all sounded amazing so Nicola said to me to choose between two amazing monologues but I knew exactly which one I wanted to do after I read the first line. Alice in Wonderland. Nicola said that it would suit me. Phew, that's one thing off my mind! 

We had an hour to practise and know it off by heart as much as we could. The week after next we will be presenting them to the group so I am extremely nervous because doing anything in front of a group is terrifying for me. But I am going to face my fears and do the best I can to get over stage fright. I am going to practise, practise, prcatise to make it perfect. "Be Alice" I kept telling myself not Clara! Alice, Alice, Alice. 

As we all went away on our own to practise I didn't know where to practise because I didn't want anyone to hear me or look at me. Nicola gave each of the performance girls skirts and dresses to wear so we could feel comfortable wearing something that we could sway and swish around. Nicola gave me a long white skirt which was one of my favourites. First I went to the bag area to practise but as soon as Alex walked in while I was rehearsing I knew I wanted to move, desperately! So I asked Nicola where I should go and then she put me in front of a chess leaderboard. I didn't feel that comfortable there because it was quite public so then I asked Nicola again if she could move me so she made me swap with Pearl in the kitchen.

The kitchen was alright but then Reina was doing Alice in Wonderland as well right in the next room without doors so that was annoying. Nicola came up to me and said that I should go in the girls toilets because it was private and no one was in there. Yay! The girls toilets was like a palace because it was so quiet and no one could really hear me. A lovely glass palace with just germs and I. How fantastic!

I thought I was pretty good at my expression and voice and was very proud of myself. Here is one more quick snapshot of Alice in Wonderland that follows on from the first sentence.

"I say, Mr. White Rabbit, where are you going? Hmmmm. He won't answer me. And I do so want to know what he is late for." 

Mission Complete!

"Yes, Yes, Yes I won!" I can't believe it, actually I can believe it because I knew I was going to fight back and I did. I now think that tigers are SOMETIMES deadly, not always. That tiger was defeated in wait for it, wait for it.......VICTORY! I am the tiger now, Jemmimah is just the little jaguar growing up, and when she has finished growing she will fight back. But she won't fight back yet, it will be in a few weeks after I keep beating her. I will still remain in the flame of fame and she will be right behind me being my servant. This is just perfect! My day has come and HALF gone but not fully.  The reason why I said half full is because after I bet her she wanted another game so I couldn't refuse as it was still chess time. We are only just after halfway in our game but I will stay strong and keep fighting like she did last week. I don't know why I even said that because I should be getting that game behind me because I don't want to think about that, that, that well that fame that she took away from me. How embarrassing!  But no back to the game, I think I am beating her but I don't know as it is so close. But close isn't enough it has to be heaps! I WILL WIN!

Tigers Are Deadly!

Yes that's right I'm going to FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT to get back up at the top of the chess leader board. That Jemmimah is like a tiger, if she see's her prey she gets her prey! Yes that's right you have probably guessed, Jemmimah bet me in a game of chess today. We both wanted to play Darryn but when Katie said Darryn was going to be taking the advanced chess lessons, well Jemmimah sprang over to me with her tiger paws and quickly said before I could even stop her. 

"I CHALLENGE YOU!"

I knew that I couldn't back down so I said yes and was feeling very anxious because when Jemmimah gets her paws out she really gets them out, so I was very afraid that she would take my fame at the top of the leader board. Five minutes into the game, she got my most precious player. THE QUEEN! I was thinking "Noooooooooooooooooooo!" but I didn't show it one bit. I knew I could still win but after another five minutes she let out her secret trap out and there I was, my lonely king stuck in the corner of the board. No one there to save me. No one at all. Then suddenly the music went off. All I had to say was, "You won." Even though it was my turn and I wasn't in check or stalemate I let her win and take my spot. Even if I did feel very disappointed in myself I felt good for her. Then as soon as Jemmimah told Darryn he said that you have still got four and a half weeks to stay on the top to go the chess tournament. I had a good feeling in me because I knew I have heaps of time to practise at home and next time it's chess time, I will defeat her. No more fame anymore tiger! You better watch out!

Clara

You!

Yes that's right, two whole hours of fun filled performance with Nicola. Lets get straight to it as Nicola would say. "Now we'll start with our warm ups. I have got some new ones today for you to learn."
Warm up #1:
"Now this is a new warm up and it is called "you!" "Now what you have to do is point to someone and say 'you'."
I was thinking that was a pretty simple warm up and how it would help our voices warm up. But then I found out after we finished the WHOLE 'you' warm up.
After we finished pointing to people and saying "you" Nicola added her secret twist. This time we had to do the same thing, point to someone and say "you" but instead of doing it in a normal voice, we had to whisper and then get louder each time we said it. I found that a fun warm up. But no, just when I thought the 'you' warm up had finished, Nicola added ANOTHER secret twist to the warm up. We had to the exact same thing (point to someone saying you) but whisper then get louder and go back down into a whisper. Some of us kept going louder than the loudest you can get and then forgot to go back down again! But that didn't stop us from continuing where we left off. And then just as I thought we were done the warm up. Nicola added her next special twist and guess what it was? "Now onto the next warm up!" Nicola said. Did I trick you? I thought I did.
To round up what we did at performance I have added a LITTLE paragraph to tell you.

We did some warm up's as usual. We sang" Don't stop me now" by Queen again, and "Oh my" by Gin Wigmore. We also got a new song called "Life on Mars". It was a completely different song to "Don't stop me now" and "Oh my" because" Oh my" and "Don't stop me now" are fun songs and "Life on Mars" is a serious song. I didn't mind the song "Life on Mars", but I don't really like that type of music.

Ta da, TINY paragraph complete. Oh and before I end this blog I wanted to tell you that Nicola said I had improved on my expression. Which is spectacular! Now I am going to ask her what my next goal is for next week. I better not drag on too much longer so I will go now.
Bye bye