Interview With Great Grandma!

This past week, I have been PILED with homework for a literature class I’m taking. I have to give a presentation, pretending to be my great grandmother talking about The Great Depression. I interviewed my great grandma on the Depression a couple weeks ago. She is 96 and being that old, she couldn’t remember much.

My Mom: “How old do you think you were when the Depression started?”

Great Grandma: “Well…um…what?”

(She has bad hearing too.)

Mom: “Do you remember how old you were when the Depression started?”

GG: “The Depression? I don’t remember what that is.”

I exchange a look with my mom. If she can’t even remember what the Depression is (bless her heart) than there’s no way I’m going to get useful information for my presentation!

I would’ve asked her myself, considering it’s my report, but when I tried to talk to her, she freaked out because she couldn’t understand how there were two different voices on the other end of the phone. Not to mention, she couldn’t remember who I was either.

Me: “Hi Grandma, do you remember me?”

GG: “Yeah…”

Me: “Okay, good. I have some questions about the Great Depression.”

GG: “…Who’s this? Do you have grandchildren?”

(That’s where my mom and I couldn’t help but start laughing!)

My mom: “No, that’s MY daughter. She’s 15.”

GG: “Oh…well, do YOU have grandchildren?”

My mom: “No, my oldest is 17. And he isn’t married yet.”

GG: “Ohh…”

Now, I’m a very impatient person. I don’t pride myself in that, and I am trying to work on that. And I love my dear great grandmother. But when I have to get homework done, I am not a patient person at all.

My mom did the rest of the talking, so as not to confuse my grandma. And in the end we did get a lot of information from her. A lot of the time she would drift off to lovey-dovey land when we brought up her husband, my great grandpa.

GG: “Oh, George and I were always just so happy. Every day was a pleasure because I was so happily married…”

Isn't that cute? I hope when I'm 96, I'll be able to say the same thing. :)

We didn’t exactly follow the interviewee sheet because she couldn’t remember anything about those questions. So we made up our own, and my teacher was fine with it. (That’s the nice thing about being home-schooling teachers. You don’t have to do the assignment perfectly and you still can get an A+ if they enjoyed it.)

So, now that I’ve finished my report and written my note cards, I have to do my presentation tomorrow, pretending to be a little old lady who can’t remember who she’s talking to. ;)

Wish me luck!

Return of the Drama Ditz

WELL.


It's been a while. Five MONTHS in fact. What have I been DOING one might wonder? I really don't know where to start!

If you have read my mom's blog lately, you'll see that I was in a whole other show since I last posted something. That would be Godspell. And NOW, I'm currently playing a milkmaid/dancer in Oliver. I'll tell you about Oliver first!

If you've seen the movie, there's a song called "Who Will Buy?" which is like a round between a bunch of merchants trying to sell their products. It begins with the two rose sellers singing, "Who will buy my sweet red roses?" And then two other girls and I come in as milkmaids singing, "Any milk today mistress?" Then there's the strawberry seller, knife grinder, etc. It's a really cool number!

We learned the big dance number "Consider Yourself" last weekend. The directors say this is the number that the audience is going to walk away, still in AWE from. :P We have a hundred and two kids in our cast. That is the biggest cast we've ever had. So I think the audience probably WILL be in awe when they see so many kids on stage, singing at the top of their lungs and doing an energetic dance at the same time!

The dancers have also learned the dance to "It's A Fine Life". (A song the role Nancy sings in a bar.) As of right now, it's my favorite number. At the beginning, Nancy is singing to Bill Sykes and is serving him gin and food, and in the backround, all of us dancers are supposed to be getting nice and "drunk". We have assigned dance partners, and I was put with one of my best friends, Jo-Jo. Now, the funny thing is, we are assigned to think up our own characters and write a character biography for our directors, and Jo-Jo already decided he was going to be the town drunk. SO not only is he going to be really drunk at the beginning of the song, before we dance, but he's ALSO going to be staggering around while we're dancing. The directors approved that he is the only one who is allowed to act OVERLY drunk. And since he is one of my best friends, I'm going to have a blast trying to dance with him. ;)

Now, I'm sure you've also read about our current status in moving in my mom's blog. We've been looking at dozens of houses. I've picked out the one I want, but the rest of my siblings aren't too sure about it.

I decided that I wanted to have the basement bedroom in our new house. Since it looks like no matter what house we choose, we'll have to put an extra room in the basement. That way I'll get my own bathroom and a lot of space. The house that I picked out not only has a huge, GORGEOUS bathroom, but it also has a cute little kitchen space! So basically, I'd have my own little apartment. :)

On the other hand, that means that the three oldest boys in my family would have to share a room upstairs. BUT IT'S A BIG ROOM. It's 36'x14'. And my parents are talking about adding walls in the room so all three of them would have their own little space.

So anyway, it's all still up in the air. And we're going to look at some more this Sunday.

I plan to keep up with my blogging now. I was behind in school for a while, so I had to catch up with myself. I also had a lot of theater stuff to work on and we were painting/cleaning the house. Spring break gave me a week to get caught up in my life, and I hope it can stay that way and I can blog more regularly!

I apologize to my hundreds of readers two or three readers for the long AGONIZING wait to see what the exciting Drama Ditz is up to. ;)