Summer's Flying By

                 It's been a crazy last few weeks here at the Playhouse full of Hogwarts' Professors, TV stars, detectives, spies, and a play in four days. The character weeks were my particular favorites, I got to dress up as Harriet the Spy one week and I also got to pose as Grubbly-Planks. That one was particularly interesting considering I had never read any of the books or seen any of the movies when the summer began. Fortunately for me my fellow interns hosted a movie night for me to watch the first two Harry Potter movies since the camp covers the first three. During the camp the children all come and the Playhouse is Hogwarts and the children are the young witch and wizard students. The Harry Potter books are referred to as history books and the children take a variety of classes with the teachers such as care of magical creatures and potions. It's a lot of fun especially for the teachers because we have Lupin turn into a werewolf by the end of the weak and attack the children.
                    When I wasn't saving children at the Playhouse from a werewolf I was directing scenes for a four day play as well as filming commercials and TV shows. It was a lot of fun to do film with the children because it left a lot of free time for them to play games so me and the other intern Jenna were extremely busy that week teaching more games then we have ever taught a single class. My favorite part of the Daytime TV camp though was getting to see the excitement the children had when creating their show segments. They each got to do exactly what they wanted and write the scripts themselves, it ended up being extremely humorous. The play in four days was also demanding but that was because I was busy trying to cram something that would normally take at least four weeks into one. I was running around making props, pressuring kids to memorize lines by Wednesday and blocking scenes as well as cramming in backstage etiquette classes with the little time we had. The kids pulled it off though and their skills as performers have grown tremendously because of it. They are ahead of most of their peers when it comes to putting on a play and all the skills and dedication that go into it.
                  Despite the fun I had watching all the triumphs  these children had through their performance camps, my favorite camp was most certainly getting to play Harriet the Spy for a week. The Mystery week is my favorite because all the teachers are in character but also we have the children solve a real mystery. We coordinate it so the current shows lead goes missing and then she shows up at the end of the week because the children found her and saved her. It's so much fun and some of the children truly think it is real. I had the special treat of getting to take the kids on a playhouse tour which was actually a secret clue hunt so we crawled and somersaulted around the playhouse trying to avoid being seen. The children ate it up and kept asking to do it again throughout the entire week referring to it as "Mission Impossible".
                  Overall it has been an exciting fun-filled summer that has taught me I most certainly do not want to be a teacher.