Soccer Mom

Well I have been feeling like a bit of a soccer mom.  Mind you it wasn’t soccer and last time I checked, I was the Dad .  It was the Canadian Improv Games, which DS took part in last week.  They came in 6th place out of 11.  Not bad for a first year team.

They’ll be back, most likeky with a very similar team next year.  The teacher, a real enthusiastic about theatre and drama made a goal of being in the top ranking.  The top ranking  schools participating this year have 2 or 3 teams.  So team number 1 is made from the cream of the crop.

According to her calculations, the team received over 240 hours of training for this competition.  Not school time, this is an after school activity. 

We started Wednesday night, by the end of the first night, we were in second place out of 3.  In the end it was also the winning team that came in first for the provincial finalists.  We missed the second night showed up on the third night and attended the finals.   We were there three out of four.

The winners went onto Ottawa for the finals.

I made a little web page which explains our participation in our competing evening.  Not my best work, but I threw it together over night, so kids would have something to look at on Monday morning. 

Very functional.  Check it out!  Click on the picture on the right.

So for those 3 nights, the drill was to come home from work, grab a quick bite, pick up the friends and drive some 30 kilometres (18 miles) out of town.  Get through the 2 1/2 hour evening and drop everyone off after.  So leave the house at 7.00pm and come home shortly before midnight.  Now you know why I felt like a soccer mom!

What fun!  I’ll certainly do it again next year given the involvement I see from DS.  Theatre Arts appear to be in his lign of forte…Career maybe?  We’ll see.