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| Morkskittar | 13th March 2006 - 12:13 AM Post #1 |
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Well, all of Saturday I was away. Judging a DI tournament. For those of you who don't know what DI is, in simplest terms, it is where a bunch of teams made of kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade make skits (and various other things I won't get into) and compete for the most creative and well-made/acted skits. It is really very fun (to watch. I never actually did it :P). So, I was forced into being an apprasier (kinda' long story :P) or 'judge' at a tournament near me. Being an appraiser meant I watched a lot of teams perform and comment on them while wearing a funny hat. In my state, DI Apprasiers have their own little contest. The apprasiers judge the kids, but at the end of the day, the appraisers can enter a contest to see whose silly hat the kids like best. My hat was simply a pink and black Doctor Seuss hat reinforced with cardboard and with christmas tree icicles on the rim, with a spinning piece of wood covered with icicles on top (the piece of wood was attached to a spinning motor, which in turn had a switch to turn on and off). When turned on, the top part made a really cool little shiny-spinning thing. In the hat contest, I got a whole three votes (each TEAM gets one vote), one of which was from a team NOT from the town I am. I didn't win, but I was happy.Anyway, I was judging the youngest age group possible. Kindies to 2nd graders. I didn't actually judge them (their category doesn't compete), but I just wrote nice things about their performances (during Appraiser training I learned that DI was just a big propaganda campaign. Typical).I have posted to share some of the highlights of the performances. Before I do though, I must stress how unbelievably HARD it was to write 5 comments per team. I am not being sarcastic. I really had to rack my brains. I could ONLY compliment, never criticize. It was strenuous. The hardest part, though, was opening the prizes. I had to hand out prizes to the little kids. For each team, there was a plastic bag masking taped and tied shut. I had to open that. Inside of that, there was another plastic bag. I had to open that. Inside of that were about 7 bags having little star-bopper headbands. I had to open all of those. There was also ANOTHER plastic bag in the second bag. I had to open that, then open the SEPERATE plastic bags containing all 7 pins, 7 ribbons, and 2 Team Manager pins. All in about 3 minutes. THAT was hard.As a sidenote, one of the appraisers next to me was a former English teacher at my school who had retired the year before I reached the grade she taught in. Small world....Anyway, onto the performances. The little kids were hilarious. I'll give you some quotes to go by (keep in mind tht these kids are 5-7 years old): APPRASIER: And what will you do in the play? KID: I'm gonna' die! APPRASIER: Introduce yourself! KID:... and I'm ____, the Executioner! KID: And the ground in front of the castle walls were covered in the bones blood and gore of people who has attacked. [The walls of the castly were painted red ]APPRASIER: What will happen in your performance? KID: We were going to at first make the daddy pig change into the mommy pig. Yes, we know about transgender. KID: And Goldilocks was being followed by two cops. KID:I'm the Big Good wolf, come out and play Basketball with me! KID: Take off those hats or I'll chop your head off! Some funny events: In one skit, a kid turned into an iceberg which fell on the Titanic. During one skit, a Team Manager's kid ran onto the stage and messed with the props, and the Team Manager ran and grabbed the kid, then sat back down in her seat. The kid then proceeded to lift up the mom's shirt and bra and breastfeed. The castle walls fell down. When something went wrong, the team members often started yelling at eachother. On my compliment sheet there was a space for nice comments about teamwork. In one skit, the little kids handed out candy to SOME of the audince, ignored some of the audience and ignored the apprasier! (It's okay.... we had a free (crappy) lunch, and LOTS of chocolate!).After the tournament, my brother's team and families and my friend apprasier all went out to eat Chinese food. It was GREAT fun. I mean, Chinese buffets are hard to beat! Anyway, that's all I can remember now. It was great fun, and if any of you think it would be fun to judge or participate in DI, go here: http://www.idodi.org/ and fine a group in your area (it IS a worldwide organisation). Pillz |
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I didn't win, but I was happy.
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