Cheers as tagger tagged

I know not everyone will agree with the bar manager’s attitude, but I certainly do!

Tagging is a HUGE problem here in NZ. There are just so many morons who do it solely because they can, and regardless of what the police try to do, there are always idiots who insist upon defacing things that do not belong to them!

This is why I think this guy did the right thing.

The tagger completely deserved what he got, and as he admits himself, he will never do it again! As for the 100 cheering patrons, I bet that won’t do it either, even if they did get what was probably the best laugh they’d ever had! Pity nobody videoed it for Youtube!

I just think it’s so sad that people who are slightly older than me, still act like 5 year olds and scribble over anything they can get their hands on! If I ever met this guy, I don’t know what I’d do first – shake his hand or apologise for the stupidity of my generation!

Film opening tonight! I’m not really sure what to expect, but it should be good! Expect a rather long post tomorrow (or really late tonight) with some photos etc. :)

I’m guessing some/most of you visited this blog yesterday, saw the "closed" message and wondered what had happened, right?

I don’t want to make a huge issue out of this and say too much, but basically, the *the group* I visited in the weekend Googled themselves, found this site, didn’t like what they saw, and contacted my lecturer to request that I remove it.

Obviously I’ve done so, it was never my intention to offend anybody, and I was not aware that *the group* would even care that I had written about them, let along object to the extent to tell me to get rid of it, but I suppose stranger things have happened!

Apparently they don’t like media attention, which they consider this to be. *shrug*

Although I THINK the only site they visited (and objected to) was mine, I was also aware that some visitors have made comments on those posts too, and this was why I took the site offline for a day, to prevent other people whose links appeared here from getting dragged in too.

ANYWAY! Hopefully this is the end of the incident. :)

Last night I had a meeting with the tutor of the drama school I’d been emailing. I think it went really well.

I’ve had quite a lot of experience with theatre and with children, so I kind of knew what to expect, but at the same time, I still felt a little like I’d been thrown in the deep end!

I guess a bit of this was down to the fact that yesterday was the first day back after the school holidays and there were a couple of new kids in both the classes I watched. Some of the kids fitted in fine and had the time of their lives, but some of the kids were a bit shy, which I guess was understandable – I would have been like that if I were them!

Most of the kids who were shy at the beginning came out of their shells after a few minutes, but there was one boy, who came as a trial, and ended up sitting with his mother (who stayed, but probably shouldn’t have) and just kind of watching. It was interesting, because the tutor said to me "I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and I still can’t get him [to engage]!"

Of course, me being me, I decided to try my luck. When I got a minute, at the end of the class, I went up to him and asked him whether it was his first time here, whether he knew anyone else in the class, and whether he thought it would be fun. Surprisingly, he said yes, he did think he would enjoy it once he got to know some kids, and once the tutor assured him he would never be made to do anything he didn’t want to do. HOPEFULLY he comes back. :)

Speaking of not making kids do things they don’t want to do, that’s something I really admired about this tutor. I’ve always thought that it’s really important to create the right kind of atmosphere for something like this, especially when you have kids who might be worried about looking or feeling stupid, or being judged by the other kids in the class. I know from personal experience that ONE instance of being laughed at or made fun of for forgetting your lines, tripping over, singing out of tune, or doing something else wrong can stay with you for a long time and give you an "I fail at acting" mentality.

I was pleased to see that when a child in one of the classes was showing people something she had learned in a kapa haka class at school, and another child laughed at her, she made him apologise to her straight away. :) My respect for this woman went through the roof in that moment.

Anyway! I got on very well with the tutor (whose name I am not going to post at the moment, since she is quite well known in NZ and WILL show up on Google, lmao!) and she said she’d ring me about my taking up the job of being her production assistant for the drama school’s annual show which begins rehearsals in a few weeks. Yay! :)