Examination
My last blog entry was… ages ago. But anyway! ;) It is May now, it’s getting cold over here in Australia and at the moment it is cold enough to have a fire. Today is going to be a long day, I still have to do my Maths homework, and it is a lot and it is due tomorrow… And we got all our Exams back.
English
I am pretty desappointed. I passed, 34 out of 60 points… that is 56%!!! And that is the worst result I ever had here in Australia.
But there is a good excuse for having just 56%... hehe I had my English Exam on Monday, my first school day. I came to school and everyone was excited and everyone asked me if i learned something for the exams. I was just like “What?” Anyway, English was my first exam… I wasn’t prepared at all. But i passed! (at least that…)
Drama
My second Exam and I got one of the best marks in class. 33 our of 40 – 82.5%! And I had just one day to learn this whole pink book by heart. Stanislavski’s, Berthold Brecht’s, Antonin Artaud’s and Growtowsky’s acting techniques and how they taught their actors to act.
Growtowsky for example always tried to include the audience into the play. He wanted them to feel comfortable and involved. Berthold Brecht did the completely opposite thing. He wanted the audience to see the play as a narration of a happening. He tried to alienate the play with his so-called “Verfremdungseffekt”. Brecht used bright stage lighting to seperate the audience and the actors, he hardly used any stage supplies. The actor had to narrate the whole play, hardly any “acting”. Antonin Artaud was one of the first playwrights who thought, that acting with facial expressions and emotions is more important than acting through words. So did Stanislavski. Stanislavski taught his actors to use their “emotional memory” to remember of all the emotions they felt, which would suit their characters, and than to go through the emotions again and again, till they can reinact them.
Maths – Standard
My next exam on Tuesday, after Drama, was the Standard Maths Exam. I passed! Thank god… with 86% and that is pretty good. Got an award. =3
Maths – Extension
Not that good though, but I still passed. 68% – very disappointing… I simply didn’t get some of the examples, didn’t understand some words and that ruined my whole exam, but doesn’t matter…
Anyway… this is my fourth month in Australia and I still love it! I’m not homesick, still not… but who knows, hopefully all my friends and especially my host family won’t get sick of me! hehe
Wish you a pleasant afternoon and evening. Have a nice bath and forget about work, just relax for a few seconds and enjoy life! That’s what it’s all about ;)
best wishes from the other end of the world xoxo ines
