Lights, Camera, Action

Well, I've got the lights bit anyway.
Been helping out a lot with Arsenic and Old Lace, which opens Thursday. The set looks amazing and we, as the drama exec, have been in charge of set construction and all that type of thing. It's a two storey set and looks remarkably like an old lady's sitting room.
Anyway.
Tuesday I slept in, went to class and then to a UNICEF meeting that made me ask many questions about the nature of charity.
Middle class, Western kids doing charity trips - a common phenomenon. But how much of that is just self gratification?
The people we heard speak, mainly Asian, all undergraduates, seemed completely uninterested in larger global issues and even in the communities they were there to help.
So, even in the beautiful setting of Hart House, in the East Common Room with an open fire roaring behind us, we were rather discouraged. But since then, Blaire and I have had really interesting discussions about the nature of charity and we both know we must just make an effort to find the right organisation with the right people, if it's something we really want to pursue.
I returned, head full of these kinds of thoughts, to help on the set for a few hours - I learnt that I can't hammer nails into bits of wood. Unfortunate, but true.
Then dinner at Burwash and, later, to the VCDS office for a meeting. We exchanged Secret Santas and my photo upload was going to be of Kim, who brought in this INCREDIBLE homemade gingerbread house, with edible green, red, white and sparkly icing and windows and gummy bears and yeah - it was so wonderful (to look at and to eat.)
Back to the set for one last time and then home, as opposed to the pub with the rest of the drama exec. Oh, if only it were an 18 drinking age here too! Well, in a way I quite like that the culture is so different.