DDF Meet

Hello all! As you probably know, Marina has been involved in DDF this year - Drama, Debate and Forensics. This weekend she sealed her spot on the State team by placing first in her DI (dramatic interpretation) presentation - she has placed in the top three around the state 4 times doing three different Edgar Allan Poe poems but this time she did a monologue from "V is for Vendetta" (Valeries monologue) and WON! She has qualified also for the Solo category by placing around the state prior to this weekend ('Spirits of the Dead' by Edgar Allan Poe). This weekend her solo presentation didn't place so she's thinking about changing that piece. There's a poem called something like 'I am meth' - we will be looking for that published somewhere so she can consider it. She is ecstatic!!! I couldn't believe it when I saw my quiet girl get up and do what she did and do it SO well :) Nearly brought me to tears. The 'Spirits of the Dead' is seriously good too but we think she just can't make it long enough to win. The solo presentation can be anything - humorous, dramatic - and they can move around during the presentation for this one. They can have a desk, a chair and a small prop but no costumes and it must be less than 8 minutes. Any ideas Clans? She's really good at kind of scary, spooky stuff but no teenage angst stuff because everyone is doing that - any ideas? Marina is open to classic works too. So State is in March at UAA but we don't have specifics yet. She will be competing again in Anchorage in February (another qualifying event but for Marina it'll just be more practice for state) but this last weekend was the first time she let any of us see her perform, so not sure she's ready for the whole clan to be there yet - maybe by State. So that's our news for this weekend - I never would've thought a child of mine would be such an incredible public speaker - I am so proud! Mama Bear.