Headmaster Brockert
July 09, 2015 11:36 AM
Midsummer Concert Sign Ups. by Headmaster Brockert
So far in Mortimer's reign as Headmaster, the Midsummer events hadn't really needed much participation from students. They had merely been events for the students to enjoy even though undoubtedly, they weren't necessarily going to be everyone's cup of tea. Granted, balls were such by nature. He didn't like them all that much himself.That was not to say that there would never be a student run production again. On the contrary, this year's Concert would utilize the students. Though it would remain a volunteer event. Mortimer really did not want to have to hear people complain about being forced to do things they didn't want to do or forced to work with people they didn't like. He supposed things like that could still happen if someone signed up after someone who disliked them did or someone could be forced by their parents for whatever reason or even some overachiever who disliked this kind of thing and was masochistic enough to do it even though they really didn't want to because they were after a badge or just had to be involved in everything for whatever reason. None of this was Mortimer's fault. Or problem.
ATTENTION STUDENTS
This year's Midsummer Concert will be three acts made up from each level of students at Sonora:Beginners (Years I-2), Intermediate (Years 3-5) and Advanced (Years 6-7). Participation is voluntary. Please sign up below if you are interested. The Beginners group will be led by a staff member who will not be getting on stage but is there solely to supervise.
OOC-Please sign up under the appropriate group below.
Subthreads: Advanced Sign Up (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Emrys Lucan, Arnold Manger, Chloe Jareau, Ji-Eun Park, Charlie B-F-R, Portia Dobson, Julian Umland
Intermediate Sign Ups (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Liliana Bannister, Jake Manger, Aiden O'Neil, Jamie Park, Duncan Brockert, Chaslyn Brockert, Scarlett Brockert, Makenzie Newell, Lionel Layne, Joella Curtis
Beginner Sign Up (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Ginger Pierce, Caelia Lucan, Jemima Wolseithcrafte, Laila Kennedy, Gia Donovan, Sammy Meeks, Emilia-Louise Scott
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July 09, 2015 11:37 AM
Advanced Sign Up (nm) by Headmaster Brockert
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Emrys Lucan
July 10, 2015 6:22 PM
Red Lucan. Blue Lucan. by Emrys Lucan
Caelia’s initiative in signing-up for the concert pleased Emrys. He liked to see his little sister get involved, especially because he hoped that by getting together with a group of students from across the beginners class it might provide her with an opportunity to befriend someone who wasn’t Kelsey Atwater. Emrys felt a little bad disliking a girl so much younger than himself, but although she seemed to treat Caelia alright, from what Caelia had told him about her roommate, Emrys didn’t think he trusted her. She was just like Grandmother, the type of person who thought purebloods were the only worthy sort of person. It was a conflicting experience for Emrys whose two best friends (other than Charlotte) were halfbloods.He sighed and put his name under the Advanced students sign-ups, not particularly a huge fan of getting up on stage but knowing that it would disappoint his sister as well as whatever authority had decided to give him a badge if he didn’t participate in the activity. He incorporated the small squiggle Caelia had made when she had touched his quill to the board so that the ‘E’ of his Emrys Lucan, 6th year was slightly more loopy than usual, and went down to sit by her.
“French toast sounds good today, what do you think?” he asked as he saw she had already taken the liberty of pouring them both pumpkin juice. Although Cascade Hall offered a variety of things for students to eat at each meal, when Emrys and Caelia arranged to have a meal together they liked to choose the same foods to give it more of a homey feeling. Caelia nodded and Emrys put a couple pieces on their plates while she looked for strawberries and powdered sugar which were their french toast toppings of choice.
OOC: This post is continued from Caelia’s concert sign-ups under the beginner’s board.
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Arnold Manger
July 11, 2015 5:06 PM
I guess so? by Arnold Manger
Think about Head Boy, Arnold. You want to be Head Boy.Arnold had been staring at the Midsummer Concert signup sheet for far too long already, deliberating on if he would add his name or not. He didn’t know what the Advanced group would even be doing, but he knew this for sure: they would be getting on stage. While not particularly shy (despite reports to the contrary), Arnold was not really interested in that much attention, either. But being involved would make him look good for the Head Boy position, and Emrys, his roommate, friend, and occasional subtle rival, who held such distinctions as library helper and Prefect, had already signed up. Which meant there was a pretty good chance of Emery signing up too, honestly, and Arnold couldn’t afford to fall behind either of them in the running.
He produced a quill and ink from his pocket, dipping the tip and bringing it dangerously close to the sheet. Being on stage couldn’t be that painful, could it? And maybe they would do something that required less people than they had gotten and he could therefore work backstage with tech or directing. Or anything. Who knew? Either way, he had to risk it. This was the only way.
Shaky hands penned: Arnold Manger, sixth year.
As he stepped back, he found himself wishing his handwriting was more impressive or… something. It looked boring and, what was worse, average. He wanted to stand out, but he supposed that aspect would just have to come from other places.
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Chloe Jareau
July 12, 2015 4:44 PM
Signing me and my brother up. by Chloe Jareau
Chloe had been staring at the signup sheets for at least five minutes without moving. Some might have assumed she was contemplating whether or not she should sign herself up for the concert, but they would be wrong. Chloe’s mind was somewhere else entirely. She was thinking about everything that had happened this term up until this moment. She couldn’t believe how many of her peers were dealing with their own familial issues that in some ways mimicked her own and how blind she had been in her own worries to not have seen it all before.Her problems may have been extreme for some, but they were not worse than someone else’s. They were all equal problems that affect everyone and Chloe was being selfish in her indecisiveness on what to do with her own family dynamics. She shouldn’t be putting her own burdens onto others. She didn’t have that right and she felt guilty for bringing it up at all to anyone. She had thought she was being honest with everything, but she was just trying to only make herself feel better.
Going forward, she wouldn’t ask for anything from anyone else. If she had a problem, she would just deal with it herself.
Her parents always wanted her to talk about her feelings and what was going through her head, but her parents were meant to help her take the correct paths in life. Her peers, her friends, they were struggling along beside her. It wasn’t fair for her to be so selfish. She wouldn’t do it anymore.
Taking a breath, Chloe straightened her shoulders and stood taller. It was almost as if whatever weight on her shoulders that was holding her down emotionally was removed and the effect could be seen physically.
Shaking her mind and herself clear of all the negative thoughts she had been having, Chloe put on a smile and pulled out her quill. The easiest way for her to get over everything and at least pretend to be a normal teenager was to dive right into everything. The easiest thing at the moment was the concert. She was already in Dance Club and Archery Club. She was evening thinking about getting into the Art Club and Science club, but she would worry about that later. For now, she signed her name beneath Arnold’s and, after another moment of thought, signed her brother’s as well. He would probably get a little annoyed with her for doing so without asking, but she knew he was never one to make the first step for something like this. Besides, both his male friends had already joined. It was inevitable that he would too.
Chloe Jareau, Sixth Year
Emery Kijewski-Jareau, Sixth Year
Feeling a little better about her predicament, Chloe put her quill back into her bag, her job completed.
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Ji-Eun Park
July 13, 2015 8:04 AM
We'll all have so much fun together.... by Ji-Eun Park
It was a good thing the concert hadn’t fallen in her CATS year. She had worried slightly about the fair as, in her first year, students had been encouraged to run booths - and, as a prefect, she really couldn’t have got out of that if they’d done the same thing again. But it had just been fun, something for which she had had to shoulder next to no responsibility. This year was the concert - although participation was, theoretically, voluntary, she knew her mother would expect her to participate. In a way, she felt it was quite lucky that this year was something she could participate in, as hopefully it would strengthen her case for Head Girl. Really, the way the school events had fallen throughout her time at Sonora had been incredibly lucky for her. Furthermore, the groups had been divided by age in the year in which she’d once again escaped being in Jamie’s class. Whilst she doubted her brother wanted to be involved in the concert, he would have no way out if the usual custom of inviting parents to watch was to be observed. But she would not have to work with or be responsible for him.The only thing to spoil her mood slightly was the sight of both Chloe and Arnold’s names on this list. Whilst they were both her friends and she normally would have been delighted at the chance to spend more time with both of them, her conversation with Chloe at the start of the year made her worried. Ji-Eun was not accustomed to the concept of tough love, and had found it rather hard to take Chloe being critical of her behaviour, mistaking it for a sign that her friend liked her less for how she was behaving, instead of just taking it as the much needed advice that it had probably been intended as. Chloe’s words had stuck, making her wonder and second guess how she should be around Arnold. She hadn’t meant to lead him on and if she’d done it by accident, how was she meant to know whether or not she was still doing it? The thought of Chloe watching her with Arnold and judging her behaviour was very disconcerting.
Still, it wasn’t like participation was voluntary - not really, for her, and so she signed up.
Ji-Eun Park, Pecari 6th year.
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Charlie B-F-R
July 13, 2015 8:24 AM
Worry not, your star is here! by Charlie B-F-R
It was concert time! A fitting end to his glorious years as Sonora’s proudest peacock. Charlie couldn’t wait to be up on that stage and to just… be himself. Even if he was pretending to be someone entirely different, doing so was just such a him thing to do. There were some rocky moments ahead on the road through this year. Some resolutions he’d made. Promises to tell certain people certain things… But the idea of going out in a blaze of fabulousness, rising like a phoenix with all those weights off his chest made it seem possible. He had something to aim for out the other side of the predicted misery he thought his confessions would bring.So far, the rest of the sign ups were sixth years. They weren’t a group he knew all that well - they seemed to have found enough in each other not to seek from the years around them. Between his own tendency to want such things, and the fact that they were younger than him, he couldn’t help but picture himself the star of the show, with them as his back up dancers.
Show tunes running joyfully through his mind, he signed up.
Charlie B-F-R, 7th year Teppenpaw.
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Portia Dobson
July 21, 2015 11:27 PM
Signing up by Portia Dobson
Portia was excited for the concert this term. She'd always loved being the center of attention, being up there for all to see. Especially if she could dress in a beautiful outfit. Of course, the only clothing she had was beautiful, but her wonderful outfits were often covered up by the boring school robes. The same ones everyone else wore every day. Merlin, did Portia ever hate uniforms! At the very least she wished they could be less boring. It was hard to accessorize at times too, but now she'd dropped COMC, DADA, and Potions and could stick to classes where she could mostly look nice at all times.Unfortunately, there had been very little chance for Portia to stand out here at Sonora. She could say that when able to wear her own clothing for everyone to see that she was among the most stylish and elegantly dressed students at Sonora but as a part of pureblood society, that was expected of her. Portia still thought she was more fashionable than others though.
And yes, she was prefect but there weren't any other Teppenpaws in her year. Though, she reflected, given the other ones who'd been in her house before they'd left, she sure hoped that she'd have gotten the badge anyway.
The other names on the list for the Advanced group gave Portia a moment's pause. With the exception of Charlie, they were all from that clique in her year that had all bonded. She wasn't so bothered by not necessarily bonding with them because she'd never seen herself as having much in common with the lot and while not by any means a shy person, it was still uncomfortable to be the odd one out among a group of good friends. However, this was something Portia wanted to do very much, something she'd rather enjoy.
Besides, well, at least Charlie was there. They weren't especially close either but she liked the older Teppenpaw. He was interested in fashion too, and at the very least, the two of them could make sure the group was well dressed. Portia placed her name on the list, because nothing was going to prevent her from doing what she wanted.
Portia Dobson, sixth year
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Julian Umland
August 04, 2015 12:35 AM
Signing up. by Julian Umland
I have enough to do, Julian told herself when she saw the sign-ups for the Concert. She told herself that very firmly, in fact. And it was true. She had a lot of things to do, all of which were probably ultimately more helpful for her CV than participating in the Advanced group of the Concert was. Plus, there was the issue of it being an Advanced group: if they had done it like the one thing she had participated in years ago, where Advanced students led teams of younger students, she might have been all right, but that was because she was more comfortable with younger kids than she was with people in her own year. Her best guess that it was something to do with a combination of the ages in her family and the way the family had come together: when she was little, it had just been her and Steve, who was six years her senior, and then when she’d acquired more brothers, she had turned out, by chance, four years younger than Paul and about four older than John. She was okay dealing with older kids, she was okay dealing with younger kids, but kids her own age were not the porridge temperature she usually found just right. She usually just felt a little awkward around them.Except Charlie, of course. The major argument for joining up was that he had done so. They did not see each other as much as they used to this year anyway, and if he took on a huge project she wasn’t part of, one which he would undoubtedly find utterly absorbing, she was afraid they might barely see each other at all for the rest of their last year, and not really seeing Charlie at all was not a thought Julian was quite ready to deal with yet. A lot of distance, only occasional cards and visits and such, was inevitable as they moved out into the world, but it didn’t have to start yet. Besides, they surely had some use for someone more low-key in the group, someone who was happy sending out the notes about when rehearsal was and taking notes over meetings and keeping track of who was doing what and how supply acquisition was going and that kind of stuff. That, she knew she could do. Admittedly, she strongly suspected that the Aladrens already signed up could do it, too, but…well, they might think it beneath them or something, or – given that Charlie was highly likely to end up in charge of the ideas – they might even generate enough work for two team secretaries who also had performing roles.
Those arguments won over the more sensible ones about already having too much to do and probably being a bit awkward with her classmates. Trying to hope for the best, she signed up.
Julian Umland, Seventh Year Teppenpaw
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