CAS 14: Reflection - Footloose

Chelsey Hadeed
CAS
May 9^th 2011

Footloose Musical  - CAS Reflection

            It had been almost 5 years since I had participated in a school play, and I therefore felt I was not going to miss this opportunity. The Footloose Musical, was a production performed by the secondary students at Island Academy. It was an amazing final performance but took a lot of effort. The musical contained a great story line, accompanied by singing and dancing of all kind.
            Practice the first day was rather nerve racking, I don’t sing, I don’t act and I don’t dance to perform. I thought this would be an interesting one, but I decided to have fun, hold my head high and try. It did turn out to be all fun, I sung as loud as I could and danced with excitement every practice and performance. It became a little hard remembering all the dance moves and all the lines to the songs but after 3 months I had it all down packed.
            As well as the singing and dancing, I had a speaking part in the play, which I actually learnt a week before the performance. At times I felt Footloose was taking over my life and didn’t always want to go to practice and felt it was too much. But after our last performance I was beyond sad to see it come and go so quickly – I really miss it.
            On both nights of the play, I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest! I was so nervous and so scared to mess up on a dance move or a line, as I had to speak in the first scene. However, I held myself together very well and didn’t make any mistakes. Having not been on a stage in approximately 5 years, nerves were more then normal and seeing that huge audience in front of my eyes was rather blinding.
            Overall, the play was a huge success, we constantly got positive feedback and everything went as well as we could have. Everyone tried there best and put there all into it. The stage was constantly full of energy and excitement and we expressed our freedom. I really enjoyed it overall and would do it again, anytime. 

CAS 13: Reflection Yearbook

Chelsey Hadeed
CAS Reflection
April 7^th 2011

Yearbook

            In order to keep those priceless school memories, myself and three other IB students, along with our teacher Miss. Irving put together, created and designed our school yearbook for 2010/2011. The yearbook captures each child in the school, with a class photo, individual photos, candid’s, club photos etc and allows everyone to look back on the memories we all experienced throughout this school year.
            Creating the yearbook was not always an easy task, we had deadlines to meet and at times it became very nerve racking as to whether or not we would finish in time. It was an enjoyable experience, cropping and uploading photos as well as begging students to smile for the camera. Having never used the yearbook software before, I was able to learn something new and improve my technological skills.
            As a group, we started designing and creating the yearbook in September 2010, when the school year began and finished with a tight deadline of April 2^nd 2011. Most of this project was fun and creative but at times it became tedious, cropping and playing around with photos and trying hard to get a good contrast with colors and layouts. There really was not any part I disliked; it was all enjoyable in its own way. I really enjoyed working on the yearbook and am very pleased with the finished product. We worked so well as a team and helped to critique each others work, overall producing a well done yearbook for the whole school to look back on.