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today is was confirmed that i DO NOT want to be a drama teacher! i somehow let ben convince me to help him with the state finals of the shakespeare youth festival. he asked me to run warm-ups and distract the kiddies with theatre sports while the adjudicators decided on winners. ben told me to expect 20 or 30 people. there were 60 fucken kids! as if that wasn't daunting enough, we had to be out in the bush (ok, outer suburbs - zone two!) by 9am! and ben got us lost walking from the station. and what is it about a large group of 15-18 year-olds that gives them the ability to intimidate a grown woman? i think i'm pretty together and sure of myself (you might know otherwise) but these kids had me panicking. i thought, "ah, they'll all be drama geeks. they'll be into it. i'll be fine." they might be the weird drama geeks at school but when you get a whole bunch of social outcasts together you'd think a big geek improvisational orgie would ensue. but NO! it's outside of school grounds a whole different heirachy develops. no-one wants to appear too eager, no one wants to appear friendly to the poor soul who's been roped in to babysitting while the important people do important things. i don't know when it happened, but somehow, by the end of the day, they seemed to actually like me. and they were completing activites with enthusiasm. they were even volunteering to participate. maybe there's a career in teaching for me after all. or not...
i'm so tired and seedy right how though. i woke up at 6.30am and didn't sleep very well last night because i spent the night thinking "i have to go to sleep, i have to get up early, i have to be hip, fun and engaging alllll day looooong." i'm planning to go to bed now, with my vegan broccoli pizza from Mr Natural, brought to my door by Grantly (beloved friend of
theobold) and watch a billy connolly DVD. hmmm, being single seems like a pretty sweet deal right now.