Tag: LO4

LO4: After 7 months of work, our planning has finally come to fruition. While we had initially contacted the Juara Turtle Project as the focus of our trip, we later found out that the school had already given another group their contact. Since we were both not allowed to work with the same group, we had to redo our plan. We were able to organize diving in Tioman through a company called ecofieldtrips, with whom we were also able to organize a beach clean-up project which linked in with our diving well. Bookings beyond that were fairly easy; however, booking the ferry into Tioman island was problematic. In what I believe was an attempt to accelerate the booking process, the ferry agency repeatedly claimed the booking was canceled until I messaged them again, but at this point, the booking has been confirmed and paid for.

LO3: Transportation was my primary responsibility, but as a group, we put together various documents to communicate our progress on all fronts(Visas, medical records, local contacts, e.t.c) to our school which I have linked here as evidence of our planning.

 

LO4-Preparing for this show required a lot of dedication, as we often met for 6 hours a week as the performance grew nearer. This was something we all enjoyed doing but grew increasingly hectic in the few weeks before the play. Two of the three cast members, myself included, fell sick with a fever a week before our first performance. This meant that we missed three of the last seven practices, but we managed because of the work we had put in beforehand.

LO5-Working as a group has been a pivotal part of this experience, as this is not a one-man play. Working in a small group (5 people) was fun as we all got to give our input into blocking and costume, but the lines have been difficult to memorize. We were only able to get them for the first time when we had to confirm our performance with the drama teachers. We also had to work together to understand the play, which had a lot of physics and history references. Our director understood and explained the physics material, and we all contributed what was needed to understand the historical context as well as the Danish pronunciations.

 

LO1- I was initially quite anxious about performing, which is something I normally do while pretending to be someone else. Juggling was a skill I am less confident in, particularly since you can make up a forgotten line, but its harder to recover from a dropped ball. I have partially overcome this just by repeatedly performing and dropping balls. There’s nothing to do but keep going. If I were to keep pursuing this, one point of improvement would be to actually perform a little more instead of simply juggling, but that would take more confidence building.

LO3-We also started our service component, which has required advance planning. Thankfully we have all learned the circus skills, so we had to adapt them to our various service activities. The most frequent was working with groups of children to teach them circus skills. We planned to divide into groups and have the children rotate between different stations for each skill. We have since lowered the time between rotations to suit the age of the kids and divided games that match their skill level. The kids range from ages 5-7, so starting with juggling was a stretch. We kept the original activities for the kids that progressed that far but starting teaching more basic skills like throwing and catching. We also had to plan for our performances, choosing gear that we could transport to the performances we did at retirement homes and coordinating to put together a coherent performance.

LO4-By working on this for the past year we have gained the skills necessary to make this activity possible and an understanding of each other’s strengths and weaknesses that make a good performance. By spending a season learning the circus skills we taught and performed with, we had something of value to provide instead of bumbling our way through our later service sessions. By learning together we also knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses allowing us to divide up teaching and performing effectively. We also met during lunches to get ready to perform.