Week 4: Finally! Some Excitement!

So, this week in Flagship was just us girls. We had 2 new girls and a girl who is a regular. Today's discussion was warm-ups and character (trying to fit 2 weeks of stuff into 1 because of last week's mishap.) We talked about why warmups are important: responses from girls were..."gets you into character," "warms up voice so you don't get tired," etc. We did some body isolations and relaxation, then we warmed up our bodies. Even as a 22, almost 23 year old, I still love to pretend to walk through honey, or mashed potatoes, or clouds. Brings out the little kid in me I guess! Then, we warmed up our voices with tongue twisters such as "Unique New York, Unique New York, New York is Unique" and others. One girl even remembered "To sit in solemn silence..." from the Mikado. However, the biggest breakthrough came from when we played the party host game. This game, a frequent on Who's Line is It Anyways, was an instant success. Every girl wanted to go out into the hall to be the host, even multiple times. Plus, after the first round we didn't have to come up with many suggestions for quirks. Sarah and I got to play ourselves, which was very exciting. Overall the creativity of the quirks coming from the students was amazing! We had: vampires, grandmas, one girl was lactose intolerant, it was great! At five, the girls were sad to go and wanted to play some more. Next week, however, is students' choice of game...so I told them we could definitely revisit that in the future. Next week we are also making masks...which will be super fun! Until next time!