Yet another week has flown by, and it seems like I have done nothing. Again. I suppose it’s just stress making time go faster and my accomplishments seem smaller. Just yesterday, I gave a presentation about World War II to my English/History class. It was a major assignment, and I’ve been working on it for three weeks. It went well, but there is so much I have to do this week, that it doesn’t make much of a difference. I just have a bit more time to work on everything else.
Opening Night for the play is this Thursday, and some characters still don’t have their lines memorized. “The Winter’s Tale” is a great play, and I’m overjoyed to be a part of it, but it’s causing too much stress to be healthy. My boyfriend says I’m going to have gray hair by the time I’m 25. I don’t doubt it.
The play opens at 7 p.m. There is another performance on Friday at the same time. At 10 a.m. on Saturday, I have to give a speech to the Lions Club. The same day, the last performance for the play is at 2 p.m. It’s going to be hilarious if I start reciting Shakespeare at the speech contest, or start talking about water during the play. I don’t think that will happen, but it would be funny if it did.
So, Saturday at 5 p.m. is when it’s all over. And I get to celebrate the end of both with a big cast party! Considering I don’t have school for another week afterwards helps, too. I want to hug whoever came up with the idea of Spring Break.
Mary Kelman is a senior at Anderson New Tech High School in Anderson, Calif., and an intern at anewscafe.com. She is documenting her last few weeks of high school.
