engrish camp
ok, so at the beginning of august piee sent me a letter of invitation to one of 2 english camps. one of them was free, and the other was about $150. presented with such a mind-numbingly difficult choice, it took hours of intense thought before i finally decided on choosing the free one. the camps were open to all exchange students in the area, so nikolai tagged along aswell, alongside about 7 others.
the point of the camp was to give about 50 japanese high school students the chance to speak and learn as much english as possible in 3 days. also to be able to converse with foreigners, and promote international understanding and good friendship blahblah etcetc.
nothing overly exciting or strange happened on the camp, apart from 1 thing. on the third and final day, we were separated into groups, about 1 foreigner in each of them. our task was to create a very short film with a language theme. there was a malaysian girl in my group too, so we did an english-malaysian hero story. the acting capacity of every single person on the camp was exceptionally low. this really pissed nikolai off, because he's the biggest movie buff i know and wants to be a director.
anyway, our fantastic story was centered around Ice-Cream Man. a brave and bold hero who, when your ice cream is going to be stolen (don't ask), comes to the rescue. one one condition - you have to shout 'help me' in malaysian (shuay duay) otherwise he won't appear. how's that for a box office hit?
the characters in this story were as follows:
the point of the camp was to give about 50 japanese high school students the chance to speak and learn as much english as possible in 3 days. also to be able to converse with foreigners, and promote international understanding and good friendship blahblah etcetc.
nothing overly exciting or strange happened on the camp, apart from 1 thing. on the third and final day, we were separated into groups, about 1 foreigner in each of them. our task was to create a very short film with a language theme. there was a malaysian girl in my group too, so we did an english-malaysian hero story. the acting capacity of every single person on the camp was exceptionally low. this really pissed nikolai off, because he's the biggest movie buff i know and wants to be a director.
anyway, our fantastic story was centered around Ice-Cream Man. a brave and bold hero who, when your ice cream is going to be stolen (don't ask), comes to the rescue. one one condition - you have to shout 'help me' in malaysian (shuay duay) otherwise he won't appear. how's that for a box office hit?
the characters in this story were as follows:
- ice cream man (played by yuya, a 15 year old japanese boy)
- the malaysian narrator (played by sora the malaysian girl)
- 3 ice cream bandits (played by 3 japanese girls)
- 3 ice cream damsels in distress (played by 1 japanese girl, 1 japanese boy, and me)
yes, since hiro (the other guy) and i were playing female roles, we had to have proper costumes. wan na (a malaysian exchange student) kindly lent me one of her skirts and tops, and they actually fit. sort of. hiro was soft and wore his shorts and a girl's jacket. then our make up was done by one of the japanese girls. really, we looked amazingly attractive. no, i won't show you the photos.
posted by pauly at 3:44 PM
2 Comments:
You HAVE to let us see a photo!!
i got it on film...ill send a dvd next year, dont worry
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