Street child play

I really liked this activity. There were some moments when I felt as I am a street child for real. I had a task of this day. My day's mission as a street child was to build a bed for my self. I was stealing boxes from others. I was protecting "my home" from others. When I asked for money too. I was singing strange song. When I was singing this song for others "street children" they usually went laughing. It was a little bit distresstful for me. A the end of the day I was happy that I completed my mission. When I was acting a street child I understood that life of street child is really hard. Child have to protect his home, find some food, get some money. My character was a bit different from others. I wasn't involved in any serious relationships with other street children. I was all by my self. There were only me and my street. The monologue that we did before helped me a lot to stay in my role. I think that after this activity I know my character much better.

Answers to UNICEF Essay Questions

i think that UNICEF chose to show child rights in this way, because a photo essay is a much better way to communicate thing than a written essay, at least in my opinion. I think this because a photo essay lets you see the real conditions that the children are living in, and lets you see the children that they are talking about, which makes you feel alot more sympathy for them, because you can actually see their faces, instead of just reading their names, which makes them seem much more realistic to me.
i think that what UNICEF is trying to communicate to us through this photo essay, is that these children and their circumstances are very real, and should not be something that we read about in a newspaper or a magazine, say how sad it is, and then forget all about them. they want them to stay in our minds, so that we can think of ways to help them and make their lives better.
i think that we could apply this tequniche to our drama role play of street children by trying to place our characters in more realistic, and real-life circumsatnces, so that both the actor and the audiance can more easily see what these kids really live like.

Comment on the UNICEF article/video

I thought that the UNICEF video/article was really good. It stated the rights of children around the world. The statement that i agreed with most is the one that said every child should be born and straight away be given the right to a nationalty a name and to preserve his or her identity. This is common sense on what should happen when a child is born. I think it would be very wrong if this did not happen because its not fair on the child then or when he/she is older. And when they are that young they cant do anything about it, so it has to be a law that this right will be given to every child when they are born.

Acting as a Street Child...

At first when we started building our houses, I started laughing because it actually looked funny for us, but it is not for the street children who are starving every day and can't find a place to stay, and live in... After we woke up, it was hard for me to act, while Ms. Tickle was counting, I was planning what to do, so, at the beginning all of my actions were planned. Later, because of not having enough time to actually think about my actions, i started improvising. In a moment I realized that it was easier for me to improvise + because of me knowing so much about street children, i did know what my next logical step is going to be... I think that I did well, and I’d like to act as a street child again to gain more experience...

Role Play

Today's exercise was to actually, perform as the street child character you chose. The task was to keep in role, throughout the different times of your characters day, in the morning, afternoon, evening and at night. This exercise for me was fun and educational because as I was staying in my character, I found that while I was interacting with the other people and characters, it was hard to keep in focus and to improvise so that I would be doing something. I kept trying to think of how my character would react to different situations, if he would be an aggressive person or a kind and sharing person. It was also interesting to see what the other characters were like and how they reacted to different situations. Some characters were thieves, others were beggars and some sold drugs to get money. I think that this exercise helped everyone develop their characters a lot more.

Trust Exercise

Since i couldnt figure out how to post things I will post mine now. The trust exercises were hard. The first one where you had to rely completely on your partner because your eyes are close and they are directing you was much more difficult for me. My partner did well and I didnt run into anything which made me more confident on the second exercise where we had to fall at random times so our partners could catch us. Jackie and Riyad did well and alway caught me but occationally I decide to inform them about when I was going to fall so that they had a little bit of warning.

Steet child role play

Playing the role of a street child was actually quite interesting. Some points of the piece it felt like i was learning more about the life of the child i was playing. the child that i was playing was more of a wimp then the rest of the street children, by not attacking the other people as much, unless it was a means to survive. it was good because the interactions between the street children also helped me to add on to the personality of my character. at the end of the day i ended up worse then i had begun, and when we were looking back it was interesting to see what had happened. most of the events were realistic, apart from the part where i had to murder someone for 10 dollars :).. This probably wouldn't really happen, unless matters were very drastic. At the end i felt like i knew quite a bit about my character. The character that i made was different to the character in my monologue.