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Anyway! Liz and Ashley here :)
So, today was a really relaxing day (minus those who had their competitions: Keith, who did the live report, Ariel and Brian, who did spot feature, the finishing up of PSAs by Katreina, Chanelle, and Andrew, and Tyler and Ren for show-opening for final edit.) We felt bad for those who had to wake up extra early, some of the wakeup calls were 6am! Crazy. Anyway, for the remainder of us, we had breakout sessions to go to. The two that we attended today were excellent, we attended one about storyboarding and the fundamentals of directing. All of us seemed to enjoy and take a lot out of these sessions and it's prettttyyy awesome that we got this opportunity to hear from all these people already working in these industries.
(By the way, oranges and bananas from the hotel grocery store are 85 cents each! WHAT A RIP OFF! But, we have to admit, these oranges were pretty much the best oranges we've ever had in our entire lives. So I suppose it's worth it...)
Aside from that, a lot of us took naps today, sneaking in a couple hours between sessions here and there. As a result of that, we all look a little prettier than we did yesterday :D Let's hope that for the rest of our trip, our sleeping habits will improve so that when we return to Hawaii, we will be the happy little perfect children that you remember us leaving as... right? (;
Tonight was also really exciting because it was the film festival, where the top ten music videos were being presented, along with awards for different short kids submitted from different schools. To our surprise, our video (Liz, Ashley, Justine and Lawrence's) was the first to be shown! WE MADE TOP TEN! We're really really happy because we did work really hard on our video and top 10 out of about 75 is not bad.. Let's just hope we place top 3 tomorrow when the winners get announced. Of course our entire MoHS team worked very hard and diligently on all our competitions-- we hope we make you proud! We understand that winning is not the most important thing, rather, what we've gained from this experience. I think it's safe to say that we've all gained something from this trip.
We were really impressed by a lot of other school's submissions, music videos, and short films. There was actually a lot of AMAZING short films submitted from school from all across the country. It was actually really inspiring.
Tomorrow, we're rising up bright and early for closing ceremonies! We are all very excited. We miss you all and we'll be back before you know it! (We know that this excites you greatly... ^_^ )
- ASHLEY AND LIZ
