Show Offs and Ons.

Pure excitement. Several times now I have declared my undying love for this year's show family and folks, guys, dolls... this year is gonna be amazing.

Day, or rather, evening one. - Wednesday

The above photo represents every possible feeling of excitement and enjoyment in the world. Thank you for that Miss Harris and Miss Woolley. I was amazed at the speed and dexterity Miss. Woolley had in securing the best cabin of Peter Snell Youth Village - Partay Central. Although this cabin suffers from dampness in the afternoon, it has a most excellent side effect of crankin' times.

Straight into rehearsal *squeee*. As soon as we entered the hall the smell of plastic chair heaven encroached upon us. Ah bliss! I will miss the segregation - I mean, seperation - I mean... sorting of the vocal ranges. Sops, altos, tenors, basses... love you all despite how far away we tend to move from the sops... Ha! Took us a solid half hour to get the papers - thanks Nellie. First song we sang. The 'Some Enchanted Evening' of our show - 'Guys and Dolls'. This song is usually sung by Nicely and Benny but the entire cast is singing it due to lack of chorus-ness. It was... interesting. It will be amazing.

Dinner was the classic nacho, wedges mix. Why blog that? Really need to remember these details peeps. Food is life. *pause* what? It is!

Day Two, the actual day time of day. - Thursday

Good thing I took a gazillion photos because my memory is already beginning to fail. Woke up early, specifically to enjoy an early morning hot chocolate. Bless! Anyway, where were we? Ah! Ninja games. The rival to the Islander boys' fighting game. Comparison:

Ninja's

vs.

Islanders

Yes, Unknown what this behavior has to do with show but fun nonetheless.

Thursday was the day I had my lacrosse game. Dale vs. Westlake Girls. We won 11 -0 which was nice but I had to miss out a solid rehearsing of the song 'Bushel and a Peck', 'Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat' and I missed out on hearing the boys' 'Fugue for the Tinhorns'. Good thing Guys and Dolls is my favourite musical and I at least know the rhythm of the songs. Very nice.

Thursday Night

Dinner was a vege and chicken curry and ice cream and jelly for desert. Overall, good combo.

After this most chicken-y meal, Mrs. Weeks joined us! YAY! Love! Incomprehensible! We sang/serenaded her the songs we had learnt and she began devising 'Guys and Dolls' - ish. Last year we stayed up until 10pm, I swear, working on 'Wash that Man..." this year, we didn't stay up... Aw...

Day and Night Three. - Friday (the last full day!)

Must have had about four cups of hot choc by now. That stuff is the shizz. Gotta know where to get the good cups too by the way. Jess knows:

The day, I recall was a-pretty-mazing. We had our first dance warm-up led by Mrs. Weeks, leaps, bounds and superman dive type moves were enjoyed by all. Then straight into the choreography of 'Guys and Dolls'. It would tell you what we've done but nah... Imma keep it on the DL. It'll be crazy cool is all I'm saying.

By the afternoon, we had reached the stage of separating the sexes. The girls got to practice with good ol' Uncle Bell *bless* while the boys spent time with the Dev. Again, would tell you our secrets but it would be a botz call. However, we did get 'Follow the Fold' and 'Take Back Your Mink' added to our repertoire of rehearsal.

Dinner was braised sausages, potatoes and veges or else known as... SAUSSIE WASSIES!!! Desert was... brace yourself... SELF SAUCING CARAMEL PUDDING. With copious amounts of cream. They always save the best for last.

Tonight we also performed the Nelson, Dev, Weeks, Bell tribute song which is available on facebook to all friends of Dan Liu. *plug*

One of the best things about the last night of show camp is that nobody cares! I love that we had good ol' DMCs with Nellie and Uncle Bell. Unkie Bell wants to sing but is too much of a genius at the piano; and see back in Nellie's day, kids were the same. Y'know, they still danced the same way *Sexy Bitch plays in the background*. Missed the deck conga line but then again, chillin' and chattin' was really nice this year.

Day Four. - goodbye!

FAT CRY! Woke up in my own bed this time (thanks Georgia). Had a shower and popped over to the last breakfast. My combo of porridge with fruit and three pieces of marmite and butter toast never fails. I'm gonna miss it - it never tastes as good when you're eating it alone at home...

We had the usual schedule - physical warm-up, without Mrs. Weeks, followed by a full revision of all songs. Loving Mr. Gino Pimentel as my super, super dance partner. He is brave for lifting me times like... ten throughout our practices.

Since we didn't have dinner I'm gonna have to mention the famous soup and roll combo on the last day of every show camp. I am really going to miss eating every scrap of my food (sorry Nugget!). I'll miss the cookies and fruit that show up every few hours, the cake and muffins... Oh food! I love you!

This is my second year of show and although this part's over, the best part is yet to begin. See you at either rehearsal or on opening night my friend.