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My apologies, but my internet has been wonky.  Here's a recap: Our leads ROCK.  I mean they are awesome and perfectly cast.  Both Celia and Gil can SING.  Gil especially, who, for the first time this tour, is being played by a girl and MAN is she good.  She sang through "Pick Me" off book with the piano yesterday and I was just blown away.  They are all so much fun to act with and are making my job easy.

The seasiders are getting there!  They were downright boring, albeit very well behaved on Tuesday, but yesterday they more or less remembered their lines and they started showing some signs of life.  One of them is brilliant and another one of them has a very loud voice that she occasionally choses to use.  Town criers are a mess and half- we originally had four and one of the two loud ones quit. Not sure why, since she didn't talk to me about it and I just heard it from a friend.  So glad we gave that commitment speech...granted I am night positive that this was mom and dad's doing.

Most of the scouts are excellent- one of them is playing the royal marriage broker because, much as we wanted to cast her as a mermaid, she just can't sing.  She's doing a great job with it and I am grateful for the break.  The prince doesn't know his lines and I am very irritated, but I have a feeling he may show up knowing them today, since ALL of the other leads know their lines- and blocking!  The mermaids motored through all of their scenes yesterday.

The seahorses are crazy.  And really low energy.  I tell ya, next week the seahorses better be brilliant.  I've had two weeks of crazies and I am over it.

Other fun things: My homestay has all of the Tom Baker "Dr. Who" episodes on DVD, so I've been watching that.  I went cross country skiing for the first time in my life on Monday and I only fell four times, so I figure, that's pretty good for someone who is horribly klutzy and duck-footed.  Our truck wouldn't start yesterday, because we haven't driven it all week (we haven't needed to since this town is TINY) and something was left on that drained the battery.  And the population of this town is two hundred and fifty, probably.  We have forty kids because this town, and the two just south of it comprise one school district- between here (pop. 250) place super close to here (pop. 170- it's really just a trailer park) and place a little further (pop. 999) we're looking at about a whopping 1,450 people!

But they do put something in the water here; during Creative Dramatics the kids came up with "imagination" as being one of the two things you have with you all the time, yet were completely baffled by "body".

I also have a really awful (albeit, funny) story that isn't quite publishable material.  No idea who might be reading this- so ask me about it sometime and you will understand.