Combat Audition

So somehow I got talked into going to combat auditions for TRF. It will be fun, they said. It's not that hard, they said. I forgot that I happen to be a little bit uncoordinated lol. But no it really was fun. I may have been a little ( a lot) hopeless at it in the beginning, but once you started to figure it out it was really quite fun. No, I'm not the best in the world, but it reassures me it isn't as hard as I thought. Maybe that dance class I have to take this fall won't be that hard either....well we can all dream right lol. I found out about a week later that that I will be doing the Kata (a dance with swords) and unarmed combat this year. I'm not completely hopeless! Lol. This should be lots of fun, and I can't wait to start rehearsals this Saturday. Hopefully, I'll remember to come home and blog about it.

Yay! Orientation is here!

So I am a little behind in adding to my blog. I have been crazy busy this last few weeks, and it's only getting more hectic as time for school to start rolls around, but I thought I would take today to add a couple of entries to my blog. We had orientation a few weeks ago and it was so much fun! We had orientation in the morning and new character workshop in the afternoon. Orientation was...well orientation. It's got your what you can do and what you can't do all thrown into 4 crazy hours, and I'm sure it's not enough to cover it all. They hammered in our head what I already knew from Civil War reenacting drink tons of water. If you don't you will dehydrate...been there, done that. Sooo not fun. They also had a costuming session where we talked about all the pretty costumes we get to where. As an amateur seamstress I spend the whole time ohhing and awwing lol. For the most part the orientation part of the day was uneventful.

The new character workshop was more fun. Mainly because I found out who (if nothing changes) I'll be playing this year out at TRF. I will be the Lady (or Mistress, I haven't quite decided which title to go with yet) Jane Seymour.Yep, this year in England it's a bunch of Boleyn's.....and me. That might influence me to change characters if possible, maybe not. Who knows yet. We did several improve exercises to help get everyone out of their shell, and then at the end we did greeting, parting, and reverences. That was intimidating. A greeting, parting, and reverence and is basically a nice big speech about yourself...mine is...in progress. I'm trying to figure out how to make a quiet, demure character noticeable. But there was clearly something there, if she caught the eye of Henry VIII. Any comment of advice you want to make would be very helpful!