Like acting club tradition, the core didn't finish the script/ spoken word until a week before the performance. They punctuated parts of the lines by a stomp while shouting our nationality (keeping this ambiguous for obvious reasons... henceforth this action will now be known as the scream ). They'd keep making us repeat the scream because "it wasn't loud enough". We were arranged into 2 lines, one of the English lines and the other for the native language lines. Turns out everyone who didn't have a solo line, would position themselves like a choir behind us and back us up for the scream. The solo lines we were supposed to say are about patriotism and stereotypical things people would say about the country. The problem was the "dramatic effect" of having people say the same line but in different languages. It probably sounded better in the core's head but when executed, it sounds like a garbled mess. I couldn't distinguish between words unless I knew the script and you couldn't understand anything because 2 messages are overlapping.
They kept having us practice over and over again. So much that our feet hurt from stomping and our throats became sore from the scream. Pretty much no one believed what they were saying and they didn't care about the message. We just wanted this performance to be over with. The thing I found interesting and funny was because Kate was in the performance with me in the English group but her line had names of groups of people in the country. I had no idea that when she said those words she sounded Italian for some reason. She's never been really good with the language so I guess I could excuse it.
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Teen FictionThe 3rd entry so far in the Crossroads Prep series (in terms of real life time and it's not chronological in the books). Time to pick school clubs. Where will Megan go? Will she settle for the club she had in the past or will she transfer this year...
