30/05/10

This week has been a veritable nightmare! My parents are on holiday, Tennessee has been off school and I have had my Graded Unit Interview and Presentation and also the deadline for articulation. Thursday night saw me pulling an all-nighter, ironing out my score for articulation, finishing off the Powerpoint presentation for the next morning, and generally stressing about everything. The articulation score has come together well I think. It has ended up being 52 pages long and it was a real challenge to attempt to score the string and brass sections, but the triumph of finally printing it out and putting it in a folder was immense. It was also hard to write about a piece that has so many elements in it. It would have been possible to continue pointing out features and devices for pages. The graphic score part was actually quite fun to do. I ended up making a giant pop-up card. Nearly super-gluing your fingers together at 4am is not so much though. The graded unit presentation was a different kettle of fish altogether. I know that others had produced all-singing, all-dancing presentations but what I really wanted to focus on was the job in hand, namely teaching. All the teaching work I have done over the last year at drama and privately has really focussed my mind on what I want to do but also why I wanted to do it and I felt that it was important to put this across during my presentation. I think the presentation didn’t go too badly. I wait with baited breath for the results!

On a brighter note - The fundraising gig went AMAZINGLY well. All the bands were fabulous and we raised £650 on the night for Pancreatic cancer. This however will be the last time I organise an event like this so close to al the course-work deadlines. Having to confirm all the bands, beg for the P.A, sort-out running times, raffle prizes and basically do everything on top of college commitments has nearly given me an anuerysm. But I am extremely proud of what we managed to do. Arran the sound engineer was truly amazing and did a great job and it was great to see all the college from NQ right up to honours year come-together to support something like this.