I will always remember going to the RSAMD (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) 2004 summer school. Although I had been to summer school each time it is a new experience. It almost gives you the feeling you get when you are going up the 1st slope on a roller coaster, your looking forward to it but you are also scared, that’s the only way to describe how summer school feels.
It ran from the 12th of July to the 16th of July 2004, and it was from 10 am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. During the day we got a morning break at 11am and it lasted 15 minutes, we also had an afternoon break at 3.30pm and it also lasted 15 minutes. We also got an hour at lunch (from 1pm - 2pm) where we could either go into town and buy our lunch as long as we had brought in our permission slips to say that we were aloud to go out for lunch. Sadly I had forgotten my slip the first day so I had to ask people to go and get me some lunch and bring it back to me, but luckily almost everyone at summer school is very nice and only to happy to help.
On the first day we all had to gather in a huge auditorium and have the register called, which was a good way to find out peoples names. I was, as usual late but I still just got there. I went and sat with some people I knew and I was so excited to see other people that I knew from either my Saturday morning classes, or from the previous summer schools. Something inside me told me that this year was going to be great. It may have been looking at all the happy excited faces, the friendly chatter, people that are all different but brought together with a shared joy in drama. It was just something in the air and everyone could feel it. After the register had been taken by Deborah Richardson-Webb, the head of Performance and Educational Drama (this is the department that runs the junior academy). She asked questions about how far some people had travelled to be here, and surprisingly we had people from as far as the United Arab Emerities! After she had a laugh with us we were told what groups we would be in, and who our leaders were. I was put in the yellow group and my groups leaders and mentors for the week were Laura and Tashi. I was glad to get them as our mentor for they are kind and have a great sense of humour and if you need help they will give it.
