This past week has been incredibly crazy but also incredibly fun.
We started off this week with an awesome CT time that was Les Mis themed and although being a huge fan of Les Mis, I kind of hate it when people try to spoof it (which is very selfish on my half but I can't help myself). However, I must admit that this assembly was really fun and smart and funny.
After CT we started our 3 hour long session with Mark.
We started the class by talking about using the face as a mask. He taught us to exaggerate emotions on our face and take them to the extremes. The product of these ended up looking ridiculous and funny but after some practice of opening up our faces, feeling comfortable around others and not laughing, the effect of using the face as a mask was very effective. I found myself being able to do all happiness, fear and crazy, but I found myself having a huge difficulty doing sadness. He mentioned that some people just don't wanna go there sometimes and I think that this was a major reason why I just couldn't do it (especially considering that mood I has been in that day).
After school finished and we started our afterschool session with the IB yr2 and the APAC kids
(still haven't finished writing this part, thought I would go on and finish the part about how much I learned and loved APAC before I went on explaining what I did)
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APAC itself was an incredible experience and honestly, I'm sort of glad that I didn't get on the actual team and was able to help out behind the scenes. I still learnt a lot of the stuff that the others got to learn, went out and did all the activities, met tons of new amazing people and got to hang out with them. I also was responsible for a lot of the things that happened behind the scenes and I just enjoyed running all the errands and sorting and organising things so much. I think I might've discovered a new love for backstage production elements :D. There's a sort of satisfaction that comes with 1) knowing that you're making someone's life a lot easier (in my case Mrs Moon and Mrs Hamm's) and 2) seeing something being used in a performance or just in one of the workshops and knowing that you were responsible for that (even if nobody else acknowledged it).
I also got to talk to Ms Kelly a bit about her life and her experiences with Khatakali theatre and her life as a teacher and as an IB examiner. She also got to know a bit about me and my experience with IB theatre right now. She seemed genuinely interested in the theatre department here at SFS.
Another thing that I was super proud of myself for was the moment on the saturday when the translators weren't here for the tech meeting so I had to step up with my little knowledge in korean to explain Mr Jung's tech ideas. It ended up not being as difficult as I expected it to be and I think I impressed Mr Hill and Ms Kelly with my knowledge of theatrical terms ;) (go IBTA woot woot!!).
The BIGGEST impact that this weekend has had on my, however, was finding out more about korean theatre and culture and art. I don't know why but even though I had done those outings with my family thousands of times throughout my life, going with a group of artists and theatre people and Mrs Moon (who knows so much about korean culture) made me appreciate that AMAZINGNESS that is korea art. Watching Miso I got so many inspirations as to what to do with potential future productions, possible our next IBTA performance and even considering a future in studying korea art and culture (something I have already talked about with my father 2 days after I saw Miso)
I have so much more to say about what I learned about theatre, about myself and just general life things over this weekend that it would take me about 7 hours to write about (which although I am willing, I don't think would be a good idea considering how much work I have yet to do).
I'm just incredibly thankful for this opportunity I had to be a part of APAC in such an impactful was and also so thankful to all the apac kids for including me in things even though I technically shouldn't have been.
Thank you Mrs Moon and Mrs Hamm :)
Emma xx
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