Cambridgefest!

SO, our stake does this thing called 'Cambridgefest' which is where all the youth in our stake get together to do skits. BUT, since people 14 and up are going on the Trek this year, we're doing pioneer parodies of popular songs. Ours is to the tune of 'Firework' by Katy Perry! It's pretty awesome! It was written to my friend Kylie! I'll post the lyrics after! This Tuesday the YW/YM are going to practice it!! So excited! It's my first Cambridgefest that I get to actually be in! Most of the normal skits are hilarious!!! The theme was Olympics last year and my ward did 'Figure Dating'. It showed three different dates(they were ice skating of course) and one was really good and cheesy, one was normal, and one was just.. bad. A bunch of other funny ones were years before. Another ward in my stake did Twilight the Musical, which was Twilight+High School Musical. It was HILARIOUS! It's on YouTube so I would go and watch it!!! Got to go! See ya!

~Abby

LA Project

Tomorrow in class in front of the whole entire class, I get to show a video I made. We had to make a trailer for 'Max the Mighty', a book we read. We also had to make a poster. I was Worm, one of the main characters. We HAD to have at least 2 boys in our group(UGH!) and when we were trying to film the trailer scenes they were REALLY annoying(shooting baskets, just being annoying,etc). Finally we got all the filming done and I was left with the job to edit the whole video and make it look like a real movie trailer. Yay. It actually turned out pretty good! There's epic music, the rating at the beginning, and the date(last day of school)at the end. I'll post the video and a picture of the poster sooner or later don't worry!

About the book we read, it was a sequel to 'Freak the Mighty' which we read. You'd get the title if you read it! The first book was A LOT better than the second one. The second one seemed a lot quicker than the first one and had less details or plot. The first one was about Max, this HUGE(meaning tall)guy who doesn't really have any friends because his dad is in jail and he lives with his grandparents, Grim and Gram. Then one day there's this kid named Kevin that moves in next to him and they come to be really good friends. Kevin can't really walk and has braces on his legs, and so Max carries Kevin(aka Freak)on his shoulders. They like to call themselves 'Freak the Mighty'. Then one day Kevin dies and Max is sad and alone and yeah. End of book numero uno. The second book is about Max finding Worm, like Freak, but a girl. They go to Montana to find Worm's dad because her step-dad, aka the Undertaker, is hurting her mom a lot. In the video we made a guy had to slap a friend of mine and it was fake of course. Max is wanted by the cops though and so they had to run away from a bus called the 'Prairie Schooner' and Dippy Hippie, the driver of the bus. Finally, the undertaker goes to jail and Worm and her mom come to live with Max, Grim, and Gram, the end.

For the poster we had to pick celebrities to play the roles of the characters. Then, we had to act like the actors/characters in the video. My friend Abby was the Dippy Hippie and it was hilarious! My other friend Elena was Sheriff Goodman and they both had to do really funny accents! We're all going to be SO embarrassed though. I'm nervous because no one in my group except me has seen the completed video! I hope they like it!! Got to go read now see ya!
~Abby