Thursday 11th october

We started off with some focus games-

• We all had to lay on the floor and either close our eyes or look up to the ceiling, the aim of the game was to count to ten but only one person can speak at a time, so if somebody says one you have to think about when you can say two because if more than one person says a number you have to go back to the start. This was suprisingly hard and I never got a number right even though I was trying really hard to focus.
• We then did some eye contact exercises, which involved standing in a circle and if you made eye contact with somebone else you had to walk towards them and they would then have to quickly make eye contact with someone else and move before you reached them, this was hard as sometimes you didn't make eye contact with someone and they would walk towards you anyway, and then people would look away from you so you couldn't move fast enough! but this did mean you had to be focused.
• We played a similar game but this time if you made eye contact with someone else you had run towards them and one person would jump and the other would roll, but you don't know whos going to jump or roll so you have to judge what the other person is planning by body language very quickly so sometimes you end up doing the same thing, I went in the middle a fair amount and managed to chose correctly each time but once I went down to roll and somehow forgot to actually roll! so I nearly got squished but I didnt so it was all good :-).
• The final game we played involved walked around the room, two people were given wooden sticks and if they made eye conact with somebody they had to throw the stick to them while still walking, then the person who gained the stick would then do the same thing and so on. You had to be focused as you had to catch it carefully and make sure you throw it at the right time to the right person.

After this we went to the dance studio to show back monologues. We didn't get a choice about performing infront of everybody this time so I had to show mine back, but to be honest I am happy about this as I havn't pushed myself enough to do this yet and I sort of wished I had, so this forced me out of my comfort zone which is what I needed. It actually went quite well and it wasn't that bad, I got positive feedback about my vocals and I feel relieved that Ive got past the barrier of performing infront of the first years for the first time.
Finaly we (second years) were sent to another room to work on a devised piece of our choice, we decided after some debate to base it on a tube crash, we actually worked really well together and we all seemed to listen to each other and share ideas. We performed what we had back to everyone at the end but as it was still a work in progress it was all improvised and didn't work to well, we will have more time to work on this next week so we can improve it further then.