Just plain fun!

So this week, this weekend in particular, has been so much fun! A wonderful, well deserved (I think) break from all of the end of term work that's been going on. So, you may be wondering just what on earth this first picture is. Well, allow me to introduce you to one of my best friends, Kelly, who just seems to have a knack for creating animal shapes out of just about anything. It all started in Meal Hall one day at lunch when she starting playing around with rice crispy squares. She made a giraffe, hippo, cobra and a few other very cool shapes. Now, with Easter just around the corner, she treats us by bringing those little chocolate eggs to Economics class and she made these animals out of the wrappers. Now the four in the back (left to right) are a tiger, with me riding it, a lama, with Fraser riding it, a bird and a giraffe. The two in the front are a crocodile and and elephant. Now this may seem really really stupid and lame, but you try making animal shapes out of Easter egg tinfoil wrappers. No small feat, let me tell you. Anyway, I just thought that this was pretty damn hilarious, and well, Kelly was feeling rather hurt that she hadn't been in my blog yet. So Kelly, if you're reading this (which you should be), here's your moment of glory, enjoy it! Feel free to e-mail me if you'd like to place an order for your very own tinfoil animals. They make great gifts. Ha.

Ahh, Urinetown! For any of you theater junkies out there, you've perhaps heard of this fantastically hilarious Broadway musical, but if not, well you'd best go see it if you can, haha! The story line behind the musical is just great, and involves a town falling victim to a great water shortage, and a private corporation taking over the water works and charging people to use the private washrooms they control. As always, there is the hero of the story who rebels against the evil corporation and spurs a revolution for freedom. The picture above is of Bobby Strong, the hero of the story, played by my good friend Brett, a first year student, and Hope Cladwell, the daughter of the man who runs the evil corporation who falls in love with Bobby, played by another friend of mine, Sarah, also a first year student.

This is a shot of the entire cast during the finale, bringing an end to this fantastic musical by Black Tie Productions. The show ran from Wednesday to Saturday, where they put on both a matinee and evening show. The cast was composed of 16 great students and community members with a production team of almost the same size. So, as you can see, it was a fantastic team effort by both Mount Allison and Sackville, with a final product that had me laughing and smiling the whole way through!

Swing dancing!!! And so many other kinds of dancing that have been going on this week, all in preparation for next weekend's end of the year dance recital! So, so, so exciting :0 These few pictures are of some members of the MTA Swing Society, practicing this year's great routine. Unfortunately, I'm not dancing in the show this year as my partner, Fraser, is performing in a play that is being performed the same weekend as the show. But, I helped choreograph some of the routine with my friend Aldous, seen in the picture above doing a Cherry Drop with a wonderful dancer, Mandy :) Aldous did most of the choreographing for this number, and it's set to a song from The Mask Soundtrack, Hey Pachuco, for those of you into Jazz music :P It's a really fast number, and just tons of fun to do :) The Salsa Society, which I'm also a part of, has been practicing really hard as well, and Aldous and I will be dancing in that number, set to Mya's Do You Only Wanna Dance from the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack. Very, very hot, let's just say that, haha.

Casey and Lindsay in an Uber Dip.

Many and Jerrod freestyling because they don't know their solo yet, with Meaghan in the background, joining in on the fun, haha.

So there's a taste of some of the fun things I've been up to this weekend! I also went to a concert on Friday night at George's Roadhouse, a really great bar that brings in tons of great music. The concert featured Jenn Grant, a fabulous singer/songwriter from Halifax, and In Flight Safety, a band that formed at MTA and has gone on to win several East Coast Music awards. They have a great sound, sort of like Coldplay, and put on a great live performance. My friend has some pictures from the night, so I'll try and get them up on here as soon as I get a hold of them :) Until then, keep smiling!

Much love,

Sue

sjhumphrey@mta.ca