The SHS drama club started the year off excited about doing a magic show, talk flew about how we would be able to make things disappear and reappear... and then there was a murmur from the corner.
It soon grew to an audible hum.
Then a roar that sung and rang off the walls.
The freshmen have arrived.
Ah, the fight between freshmen and... just about everyone who is older than them.
Don't get me wrong, I know that I was once a freshmen and was probably just as annoying as the 2018 class is... but I just can't bring myself to think that I was.
But we're we actually like this?
While there are a handful of kids working on acts for our next production, there at least two more handfuls of kids that aren't. They sit in the corner or in the lobby and yell and laugh as loud as they can. Maybe they make themselves loud so they seem bigger in size.
Now it's not only freshmen who sit around and do nothing. It's some of the 2016 class as well. I keep wondering as I look around and take notes if the kids just don't want to be here or feel like they have nothing to do, freshmen or not.
Mereu and I along with the stage manager Maddy Brown had a talk about getting kids invloved, yet that's harder than it seems. Mereu tried teaching some of them small tricks that could become something so amazing, yet it ended up flopping and they went back to their respective corners.
To be involved people have to be willing and I'm not so sure these people are.
I don't really agree with this. I think in order to be involved a person has to feel welcome and get the same treatment as the people who are doing the big tricks. The people in the corner may just not want to compete in a unequal race for help with their trick. As part of the drama club, I know that it isn't just freshmen and juniors in their "respective corners" and that many have jobs that the people on stage doing magic rely on.
ReplyDeleteI love the two perspectives represented by your blog and Shannon's response.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that too but not to exactly that degree. They don't do much this is true; however, they aren't that disruptive. Noisy yes but not to the point of where it disrupts practice.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that at first everything is so exciting to the freshman class, but once they get a bit more into it, the excitement wears off and it doesn't appeal to them as much. To me, it seems like the freshmen have dwindled down to the few who actually want to be there, maybe with a few who just hang out. I do agree though, that it's not just the freshmen now, most of drama club is sitting around, not working on anything.
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