exhausting week

Last week was phenomenal and this week I am back to getting my butt kicked.  We have three extra workshops, which isn't all that bad, but they were in a different town and we had an awkward amount of time between them where we just stayed down there and got some food at a bizarre Chinese restaurant in a place called "The Wander-Inn".  It's about the only building in town that isn't a trailer.

The town we are staying in is really nice though.  SMALL for sure.  It's a village with a population of under 2,000.  Yup.  But the adult here are super cool and we're a blast hanging out with them.

I am having a REALLY hard time with the high school kids this week.  All I can keep thinking about is how fabulous all of my little grade seven girls were last week.  How much more mature, how much more they cared, what better role models they were.  Yesterday in rehearsal the kid playing the king cursed in front of all the little elementary school kids who were in my rehearsal.  Twice.  I was so angry I didn't even know what to do except give him a "time out" more or less.  In retrospect I wish that I had made him write me a list of five other adjectives he could have used to express the same feeling.

I have been bad about blogging because I am exhausted.  And usually frustrated after rehearsal.  I don't understand how this town that has such fun and charming adults produces all of these repressed, reluctant children.  Granted they are not the children of any of the people we've been hanging out with.

The good news is, those cool people who we've been hanging out with have planned not one, but two big adult bashes for this weekend- one on Friday for Halloween and one on Saturday for our and the former contact's going away party.  The best part?  There is a workshop attached to the Saturday party- so we're getting paid for it!

One cute story:  Today during a creative dramatics workshop when we were asking the kids what sort of things I had found in my mime ice cream cone, they couldn't stop talking about all of the animals I had potentially found.  Truthfully I do find a butterfly and the kids usually get it.  But today they suggested everything from eagles to bees.  Both of those things would be quite painful to have in one's mouth....