"Free Write."

          Yesterday, we participated in the first weekend of our district Individual Events competition. Although I did not perform (I will be performing all of my events next weekend), I had so much fun watching my friends and other schools compete. I thought all of the events that we took did extremely well, and two of our events even received a "Critics' Choice" (the highest possible rating; only one event per room is chosen). Not only am I inexplicably proud of my troupemates, but I also had a great time watching other scenes and pondering what types of techniques they might have used to prepare. As I've said before, my friends and I did use some of Meisner's techniques while preparing our mime for competition, so I wonder if any other students in our district did the same. I hope that all the hard work we did will pay off next weekend; I can already tell it did yesterday!