It’s time for yet another blog post (distant gasping). It’s almost like it’s part of our work.

So, we went on a school trip the first week of school. You know, that’s normal, going on a trip after one day of school. But it was fun, we went to a place of magic and mystery. Called Camp Capilano.

We started off by packing the night before. I packed light, managing to fit all of my things into about 3/4 of my backpack. I even managed to use one of those inflatable pillows that are the size of my hand until you blow it up.

Really uncomfortable, I’m never using it again.

Then the day came. We had a class beforehand where Hughes showed us a bunch of reality Tv show intros. Then we had to pick one character from each and write a brief write up on them.

We then got on the bus, and drove for like 20 minutes, until we got to the Cleveland Dam. Where I took this wonderful photo:

Thats when we had to make our own reality TV show character. It had to have ten characters, each with distinguishable traits, background music, and it had to be under 45 seconds.

In my group was Adam, Aiden, Sofia and Isobel

We wound up making the intro for a show called ‘The Broseph Bunch’. Here it is:

It was really fun to make, I got to do all the editing while the others acted and filmed

Then we had to hike (ew). We walked through a trail until we got to the actual camp site (see first image). It was very nice, the kitchen and dining hall was the main room, the girls off to the left and boys to the right. Behind the kitchen there was a common room, with a bunch of nice couches and stuff.

In that common room, after eating lunch and choosing beds (I got a top bunk), we all sat down and watched everyone’s videos. Then Hughes and Willemes announced the next project: We had to do around the same thing,.. with no video. This meant introducing ten characters with only audio, and a blank screen, with the same group. This one had to be a minute long, and we rose to the challenge.

We made a show called ‘The Baker Bunch’ (why are we so obsessed with the letter B? Who knows. So B it). It was sort of like the Kardiashians. Anyways, here’s the podcast(?)

That was only the second project of the trip. The third one was… a bit longer.

We had to make a podcast that was 4 minutes long. Not 4:05, not 3:50. 4:00 Exactly. I worked with the ever wonderful Willa to make the best podcast. We had to make a four minute podcast based around the idea of ‘identity’. It had to be a personal story that helped identity in some way. We debated through a lot of ideas, until we found ‘The One’.

Our plan was to talk about my experience in musical theatre. If anyone knows me, they know I love musicals. From Hamilton, to Be More Chill. So we decided to talk about my first musical… and how it was so terrible it made me never want to do musical theatre ever again. It’s a great story, really.

First we had to write a script. This actually took the longest. Because writing something that looks like an essay is great. But then you read it out and it’s two minutes… not so great. We kept on having to add on things, until we got it perfectly to four minutes. The end result:

I’m quite proud of it, despite the fact that I dislike the sound of my voice on tape

Well, that’s all for this blog post

Read Ya Later

Sincerely, Me