Hello! I’m Hazel and welcome to my blog! Today, I will be telling you about a project that we wrapped up just last week; Swipe Right For Tragedy. This project revolved around modernizing the classic “Romeo and Juliet” play, written by Shakespeare.

We started off this project, or rather; 80% of this project was based around learning the play. Romeo and Juliet, being as complex as it is; was given to us in a original and translated version so that we could understand what we were reading all the while learning what all these big confusing words meant.

After learning the original play, we got to writing our own modernized version. Now, you could probably imagine how that turned out, with 15 year olds writing this; although it was funny in the end nonetheless.

Last section of this project was actually preforming the play that we wrote. This was probably the easiest part of the play for me; because as soon as it came, it finished. I really like it when projects are like that; quick and without any time to just think about what you’re saying. As I said, this part was pretty quick; and people got a kick out of it (for the most part). Oh yeah, did I tell you that we presented in front of 3 different classes plus some? It was pretty awesome…

Now, onto the reflection.

What did I do well? Well, I’d say I did pretty good on the acting parts. I don’t know about you, but I went home with two bruises on my shins that day…. Because my acting was so believable. I also feel as if I contributed to editing the script after it was written pretty well, making things funnier (at times) and making things sound a little less stiff.

As for the things I could’ve done better.. contributing to the script initially. Now I did say that I helped out with the script, but that was after most of the parts were already written. I feel as if I didn’t have any part in the written portion of the script at all (which is totally on me), which left my group members with a bit more work than they bargained for.

Thank you for coming back to my blog to read my catastrophes, and I’ll see you next time!