After school today was the audition for the Stage Challenge. Unlike last year, there will be a group of about ten core dancers, which everyone auditioned for. If you don’t get in, you just get much smaller parts, not kicked out of the whole thing ( Read more... )

Gwen and I turned up for the heats of the speech competition at lunchtime today. If we got through this, we'd be representing the school for the reginals. We were completely nervous, thinking we'd be up against the best speakers in KKC in years 12 and 13. We'd been panicking and going over our speeches again, and again ( Read more... )

So, my veteran school skirt (that I'm rather attached to) of four and a bit years, just busted it's zip ( Read more... )

Whilst doing some studying for my drama lessons, I came across a very... interesting passage in the book I was taking an extract from. I thought I simply had to post it because it seemed so wrong‘...after another and longer interregnum of shouts, yells, ejaculations, frantic cries, agonized groans, seemed to cap the climax of noise and zeal ( Read more... )

Out of guilt, I decided that today would be official Poppi Being Nice To The Year Sevens At School day ( Read more... )

Now that I know Aimz is also entering this speech thing, I've got more inspiration. Well, more inspiration to START writing the speech, not actually for the content ( Read more... )

There seems to have been a bit of an orgy of birthdays lately ( Read more... )

Another week has gone by, and tomorrow is the party! **dances happy dance ( Read more... )

You know it is too hot when your mascara on your lower lashes has migrated to become eyeliner ( Read more... )

I got an invite to a friend’s birthday party this Saturday night:

Friend: The theme is ‘bad taste’!
Gwen: What would your parents say if I turned up in a, let’s say... French-Maid’s costume?
Poppi: What would your parents say if I turned up in a corset, a tartan mini, fishnets and some spiky boots?
A Pause...
Poppi: With lots of eyeliner-
Gwen: ( Read more... )