In my Destination Imagination Regionals blog post, I talk about regionals for DI (destination imagination). Now I will talk about provincials, and the process leading up to it.

After regionals

When we found out that imagination of 5 (my group for DI) was in third place we were ecstatic! We couldn’t believe that even though our vanishing act didn’t work, we came in third. We were happy to say the least, to be going to regionals alongside all of our classmates.

Prepairing for Provincials

Even though we didn’t get our scores at regionals, we did get feedback on our performance. Once we got back, on Monday we reread the notes and decided what to work on. We had to prioritize, because we only had ____ classes to prepare for provincials. We decided to change one of our team choice elements, from live music (singing with the ukulele) to a lightning bolt rainbow staff, because we got a very low score on it. We kept our other team choice element (costumes) but we decided that we would get a higher mark on it if we sewed them. Some of the fabric was difficult to work with because it was so fine. Luckily we didn’t have to change much when Sofia came back, all we did was give her the narrator part so Luca wouldn’t have to change in and out of her costume. We made some edits to the script (which I partly regret) to enhance our storyline.

The lightning bolt rainbow staff took a while to make, because; first we had to find a stick the right size for Syrah, then I  whittled it, then over spring break, Alivia created the lightning bolt to go on top of the staff, after spring break, we covered the lightning bolt in white tissue paper and put a light inside, we wrapped rainbow tissue paper around the top of the stick, glued it all together, and we were done!

We also added a few props, and by a few I mean two. We added a sun amulet for citrine (me), and a wand for emerald.

During and after Provincials

We definitely did  better job at Provincials. This could’ve been because we had more time to practice and improve. It also could’ve been the fact that we had one more person helping out “backstage”. Maybe it was just because we were more comfortable performing the second time around. Whatever the reason was, I know I’m very proud of my group and I for coming in second place in Provincials. Even though destination imagination was a fun experience, I think everyone (in my group at least) was glad once it was over.

Coming in second place means we could go to global stage, but we aren’t going, for multiple reasons, money being one of them.

If you’re wanting to check out my teammates’ blogs’ here they are;

Alivia

Luca

Sofia

Syrah

A video of our performance will be up soon.