Sohams personal Diary

Soham's weekly diary! 30September'22

07 September 2022, Wednesday

459pm-618pm

Dear future Soham,

Amazing.

There are always a lot of things going on in life. Sometimes what you can control sometimes things you cannot. And when you are in a pool of both...that's life.

Let me start with my grades, then we'll move on to my drama school, something drama related from my actual school and finally today.

My Mid-Term Examinations ended last Wednesday. A few of the papers have already been corrected. Some will be given once vacations end. I scored 56 on 80 in SST, and 71 in Science, but in Maths I scored a whopping 78. I am so happy with my Math marks, they're helping me live because otherwise, I would've been really sad about my SST marks. I am fine with getting that much in SST, It's a shit subject with a shit ton of course. I don't know what else the outcome would've been. Matter of fact I cheated the most in SST. On god, I didn't cheat on any questions in Science or Maths, those were a 100% me...but SST was like 60% me. Lol

Next drama school,

We have a performance about 3 months from now, but we've already started to prepare. Our first task is to make a script and send it to the school so that they can validate it and also make corrections. It's been a tedious task to write. Our task for the performance is a little different this time compared to our usual things. We've been writing every single day of this week, and we haven't borne any fruit. We've written some things but everyone in the team knows that it's not as good as it could have been. A major reason for that is that they're is no team bonding yet. We haven't met in person and online meetings just don't cut the deal. That's why everyone is a man for themselves. I think I am a major liability because I don't see eye to eye with the other members most of the time. But when I realised that I tried to change my attitude and it's been a little better since then. We plan to meet tomorrow for a few hours, but the whole 7 people core team will not be there. That will be a loss of some important team bonding but can't fight circumstances you know. Hopefully, we are all good tomorrow.

Something drama related in my school,

Our school is hosting a festival. A lot of other schools will be invited for showcasing talent and it's always a fun event. Earlier I wasn't allowed as I was in lower grades but being in the 10th grade, I am now a part of it. As my school is one of the biggest in Bangalore, with about 800 students every grade...I registered as soon as I got the chance. They wanted some audition but my dad said not to take part in random time pass. So I didn't send an audition. It just so happens that I read every single document my class teacher posted on the class group and I learned that my Hindi teacher was heading some sort of event for the same fest. So I just casually asked her in class and she sent me with another student of her class to tell all 10th graders that auditions for the fest would be hosted in the 4th and 5th period and they could do either mime or perform a monologue. I was confused about what to do as I got to know that we had to do a monologue that very day...after asking my friends I asked my Hindi teacher itself, and she instructed me to say the infamous "Gabbar Singh" dialogue. It's from the movie "Sholay" which is a worldwide hit in the 70s or 80s. The dialogue starts with "Kitne aadmi the..." meaning "How many men were there". So I looked up the whole paragraph of his on my class teacher's phone. I wrote it in my notebook and practised it 2-3 times. I performed it for some of my classmates and they said that it was awesome. So then I went to the auditions and I did it. And I swear to god that everyone was clapping for me. I was so loud that children came out of their classes to see what was going on. Then I did it again because another Hindi Teacher wanted to see it. Claps again. Then no joke, my whole class pulled up. The auditions were in the open and my classes are like the closes ones to it. So they all came and said they could hear me and I aced it. I was so happy.