International Night
I don’t really need to say much more about this as other’s have written about it. All I can say is that it is really annoying to explain to someone the safety risks etc. for that request (or demand to be more accurate) to be blatantly ignored.
Perhaps I should be slightly less cryptic. So maybe I will talk about my view of what happened
I’ve been crewing International Night, which could be said to have been badly organized (it seemed it from our point of view as we didn’t get anything in time and we had to keep pushing for anything to happen – IC Conferences agreed and came quite close to canceling themselves). Anyway I’ve been helping with the lighting and being a general runner on the night
During the Technical rehearsal the Cypriot Society had a drum (much like the Irish bodhran a wooden hoop with skin stretched over) in which they placed a glass (or two as the case may be) and spun it around their heads – very impressive. That is until the glass dropped and smashed onto the stage. We cleared the glass up and explained to the act organizer in the control room that it couldn’t happen again and they would have to find something that wouldn’t break. After protesting (along the lines of “he’s never dropped it before”) it seemed and agreement was reached. In the Dress Rehearsal the next night a plastic ‘glass’ was produced. On the night they produced something disturbingly reflective. We were going to get Rich Jordan (who was stage managing at the time) to check them after the act and give them a massive telling-off (to put it politely) if they were glass. This wasn’t necessary however as once they act had finished they took their bows and the glass fell and smashed on stage. I’m not impressed – neither were IC Dance Company who were a little uncertain about dancing (barefoot) on-stage after-wards, all we could say was ‘we’ve tried as hard as we can to clear it up – it’s your call’.
I shouldn’t go on too much about it as it was – other than that a good night. We didn’t make any massive mistakes. The only thing that people appeared to notice wasn’t even our fault it was a case of ‘that’s was tech rehearsals are there for guys’ it’s just a bit annoying when people then think it was our mistake
Some of the dances were cool though. There were quite a few topical and even funny skecthes too. JapSoc managed to produce something the seemed very Japanese -that is to say a bit wierd but good all the same. Both the Arabic society and Bangladeshi Soc managed to have funny sketches with topical references (Kilroy-Silk, Head-scarves in french schools etc).
Other Things
I have surprisingly been doing other things too – although I really need to do some more final project work.
I went to Newcastle to see Andrea (it was 14th Feb) and had a nice relaxing weekend, a good Chinese and a nice bottle of wine. I also saw her flatmate for the first time in ages. According to one of her lecturers the definition of family has changed over the years making me part of hers. Scarey – it isnt’ just one person claiming I’m nearly married
I did however get some work done on the train. I’ve got an algorithm designed for one of my functions and I’ve sorted out my data-structures and signatures (think public declarations in C++ classes)for my files.
Can’t think what else has happened – ’till later
