30 of November - Monday

Oh yes! The Sidecar Rider show took place tonight at 7:30pm in the school theatre. It was good that the lights from the school play were still up and they could be used.

Not only was there excellent music, but Alan, Sean, Murray and Pedro put on an excellent show to raise money for charity. The audio track from the show was recorded and the show itself was filmed. Don't forget to check out their website and purchase their CD that comes out quite soon; the 10th of December, if I'm not mistaken.

28 of November - Saturday

The final night is here. One more time then there's the cast party.

We came this far and we finished it great!

Even the lighting crew had loads of fun: after all, we painetd our faces to look like Gene Simmons and Starchild from Kiss! I'll post a photo when I have one!

27 of November - Friday

Tiring week. It was the second night of the School Play and we've still got one more waiting for us tomorrow. Here we go...

26 of November - Thursday

The end of November is coming up and so is the play.
Opening night.
Tense cast.
Tense crew.
Practically full house audience.
"The Dream" is finally here.

The can imagine how the cast and crew were. The extreme heat in the lighting and sound booth at the back of the theatre didn't help to relieve the tension.

Not surprisingly, though, it went very, very smoothly. The cast knew all their cues and what they needed to do. Similarly, the backstage, orchesta and lighting crews were prepared.

For a change of pace, the filming people recorded the DVD of the play tonight. It's usually filmed on the second night out of the three.

What else can I say? We kicked ass!

25 of November - Wednesday

There was no School Play rehearsal today. Since Monday and Tuesday were packed full of rehearsals and we had to stay late, we needed a break.

The opening night will be tomorrow at 19:30.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Let's do this, guys!

24 of November - Tuesday

We had an ice-cream festival again today!

This time, though, it wasn't just an expensive ice-cream popsicle. This was more like the ice-cream festival we've had before. But you know what? Instead of telling you about it, I'll show you:

On another note; the opening night of the school play will be on Thursday. Due to this, there was a long, tiring and productive Dress Rehearsal. If we do as well in the actual play as we did in the Dress Rehearsal, it's going to be on excellent play!

23 of November - Monday

It's the play week today. Yeah. Rehearsals went all the way to 8:30 pm tonight.

Things are going very well in my opinion and A Midsummer Night's Dream seems like it's going to be a very exciting, funny and worthwhile play. Be sure to check it out, people.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

By the way, Mr. Mugan's band "Sidecar Rider" is going to host an hour long show in one week where they shall play songs from their first album. (The lights will be done by yours truly!)

Here is the link for their promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYf0fXw2QM

Hope to see you guys there!

19 and 20 of November - Thursday and Friday

Dia da Consciência Negra holiday. No school on these two days.

Great for us and a perfect opportunity to catch up on all that coursework.

18 of November - Wednesday

Purple Day.

Anyone who had anything purple (or got the facebook message about Purple Day) was supposed to come to school today dressed in it. Purple shirt, dress, socks, tie, whatever.

Truth be told, I was pretty surprised by the amount of people who did. More than I had previously imagined.

Friday's gonna be "Dia da Consciência Negra", a holiday exlusively for São Paulo. So no school for us on Thursday and Friday.

We had our occasional Headmaster assemblies this morning. Guess what it was about? That's right! Dia da Consciênia Negra. We had a humanities professor come in and she gave us a talk about the origins of the holiday.

17 of November - Tuesday

Lunch was good today! We had hamburgers and french fries. Unhealthy, but delicious just the same!

With the school play just looking over the horizon the rehearsals are becoming more and more frequent. Next week: A Midsummer Night's Dream!

16 of November - Monday

It seems Mr. Mugan has set a new rule for the tutorial class: Monday is not Disco Morning during the tutorial period early in the morning. Beegees music filled tutorial and got us started for the week.

Oh, and it seems that the year group representatives finally managed to convince the PTA (after 1 whole year of waiting) to put a coffee machine in the 6th Form Centre. Yay for us.

13 of November - Friday

One of the many Friday the 13th's of this year.

The girls had a game against Chapel school in basketball. They won and are now champions for the second time!

12 of November - Thursday

Tomorrow the girls have a final game against Chapel tomorrow.
After school their ECA was specifically in order to prepare for that.

11 of November - Wednesday

Since it was Remembrance day today; there was a 1 minute of silence during our Portuguese lesson after break time. Mr. Woodward went outside and played the buggle in honor of the casualties of war.

The girls will have a football game tomorrow. Let's wait and see how that goes.

10 of November - Tuesday

This one's coming a little bit late. I have an excuse, mind you. The blackout. There has never been a blackout like this in Brazil since 1999. 9 States in Brazil were almost completely powered down and this affected everyone up to a point a bit beyond the Brazil / Paraguay border.

So that's it people. I was going to write this post a little later than usual but, oh no!, the blackout hit and the power only came back at 1:15 am of today.

The girls had a game of football against our traditional rival, Graded school. The game grinded on with both sides battling valiantly. The score was 1 - 1 so they had to go into overtime. The penalty shots ended the game. St. Paul's beat Graded: with a score of 3 - 2.

What I forgot to mention on the Monday post was that this is reading week! We had a whole senior school assembly with the Headmaster who addressed this information to us.

Mr. Mugan's "Bookaholics" video was finally presented on a big screen after, if i'm not mistaken, 10 trailers.

The game was mentioned and so was D.E.A.R. This stands for "Drop Everything And Read".

This is basically when someone walks up and down the corridors ringing a bell. Students and teachers are supposed to stop what they're doing, grab a book and read for 20 minutes. The only flaw I see in this is that whilst some teachers take this seriously, including when we're doing an important piece of coursework, other teachers do not stop to read no matter what we're doing; trivial work or not.

9 of November - Monday

Ask any student and they'll tell you that we get Yoghurt for desert way to much at school. Something very similar happened today, when the school menu said that we were going to have Donuts for desert. For some strange reason, about half an hour before lunch time; the lunch menu's changed to say that the desert was going to be yoghurt....again.

And, sure enough we didn't have donuts at all and we had to have the same strawberry yoghurt again.

7 of November - Saturday

It's Saturday, 7/11 and it's the International Day at St. Paul's.

If we, the U6, are going to maintain the tradition of having an U6 trip then we have to raise money. How, you ask? Well, we set up a tent along with the many tents from different countries at the event. The difference was that we sold Panico T-shirts, offered face-painting services (although that was a bust) and we sold raffles for an off-road dirt skateboard.

Sales were not going particularly well until we decided to satisfy a popular demand: you see, whilst the Sodexho staff was providing softdrinks, they were pretty much limited to Pepsi. Most people don't really like Pepsi as much as they do Coca-Cola. We went to the local supermarket and bought a hell of a lot of Coke.

Raising the price by 1 Real didn't drop the demand any bit and we were soon running out of Coke; as was the supermarket, Pão de Acúcar!

6 of November - Friday

I didn't go to school today so I have no idea what happened. Anyone offer to guest post?

5 of November - Thursday

It seems they got around the tree by just cutting up holes and wrapping it around the branches of the trees.

4 of November - Wednesday

With the International Day coming up this Saturday, the School's staff began to work on the enormous tent that will be used to shade everyone.
The field, where the tent is usually set up, is not available, as it will host a football game the week after that and the inevitable mess caused by the international day will not be cleaned up in time.
The enormous tent is being set up in the middle of the open patio of the school, much to the discontent of the pupils and teachers. This is because we are forced to take large detours around the field and near the covered area in order to get to classes. I also find myself wondering how they're going to get past the milestone of setting up a tent where a massive tree lies. Undoubtedly they'll find a way, or else they wouldn't have picked that location for the tent.

3 of November - Tuesday

The school looks...desolate...in the 6th form. It reminds me greatly of Rancho a few weeks ago, when a huge percentage of the 6th Form Students spent the week away.
This time, though, it was a Biology trip that left yesterday afternoon (yes, a holiday) and will only be back Friday afternoon.

The thing is, at least 60% of the U6 does Biology so the 6th Form Centre looks even more empty than it did a few weeks ago. The result is that classes consist of an average of 4-7 pupils. Interestingly enough, our English A2 class only had 4 people; but it always has only 4 people!

2 of November - Monday

There was no school today. It was Finados.