Birthday weekend and a little cootie!

Some of you may not know, but I love Orca's! Well, at the beginning of every semester I have my beginning drama students bring 3 items that describe themselves and I always demonstrate with 3 of my favorite. One is always an orca. This means that all my students know I love orca's. This year they made me a cake and brought it to me! It's pretty cool!My other friends also decided to make an orca cake for my birthday party! They are a little more experienced in making them. Pretty cool, huh?!
This year for my birthday we decided to do something different. For those of you in my family you know we have lots of cootie parties. Well we pulled a birthday cootie party. Needless to say people were a little skeptical about the whole concept but it turned out to be a total success! Thanks to Nathan for the picture of the Cootie "under the sea" even though he sarcastically commented to me that Cooties are land animals!
We had to do it a little different since we can't fit a whole lot of card tables in our place so we just got some hard cover books and we rolled the dice there. It was SO much fun. People actually came up and thanked me for having a birthday! It was great!
Here's some of the group in action!

Mock Disaster

Last week the teacher in our school who teaches the emergency medical training classes contacted me to see if my classes would help her classes with their mock disaster final. I was hesitant at first and then thought it could be a really great experience. It was awesome!! I didn't tell me classes what we were doing before the day of since the other class couldn't know that they were being tested. Anyway, we headed down to our "disaster location" and put on artificial wounds, blood and bruises and then the students were given certain symptoms that they had to tell the emergency team. They then called the emergency class to come down and the acting began! It was so much fun!! My kids really got into it. They were yelling for help, crying, in shock and some were actually dead on arrival (that gave me the creeps a little). The first class that did this was my tech class and so not all of them are actors, but they really got into it. After awhile of saving the head of the disaster would go through and observe who was being helped and if they hadn't received enough attention she'd stick a dummy next to them for the emergency class to use to show that they needed to do recessitations (no idea how that is spelled). They did a pretty good job, but some of my students did end up "dying", which they actually thought was kind of fun anyway. Overall it was an amazing experience! I'll be doing this every semester from now on!!! Here's pictures of the gore!

They had to put some of them on body boards to get them out. Check out the acting on that face!!
Here's one of my student's who died. There's the mannequin for one of the EMT's to use to try and rescue him, but they didn't get there in enough time and so they killed him. So they put a piece of paper over him. So dramatic!

Here's just more of the injuries!

My job is so cool!

Theatre Games

I know I'm not as good as most of you are at posting blogs, but here's a little video to show how awesome my job is. Every class period we start out with theatre games as warm ups. I love them!! We discovered a new one today and since I had my camera at work (because we are doing final performances in my advanced drama classes) we documented the fun! Here it is!