Our little drama queen

For the 2nd year in a row, Lydia has participated in a summer drama camp at the high school where I went to school.  The drama students and their amazing teacher host a week long camp to raise money for a trip the drama club/group takes each year.  The students are the camp counselors and are so great with the kids!!

This year, Lydia attended this camp the third week of June.  She was a little nervous.  As they have gotten older, Lydia and Emily have developed different interests and activities.

While it makes it harder, taking the kids three different directions instead of two, it is really good for the girls to do things without the other to depend on.  She was a little worried because she knew she would not know anyone in drama camp.  I assured her that she would know the kids that were there last year, but since this high school is so far away from where we live and where she goes to school, there are no kids from her school who go.  Upon sitting next to a little girl named Camryn (who was also in the Sushi group), they were talking together and became fast friends.

At the end of the camp, the kids put on the play that they worked all week on learning their lines and show their acting ability.  All families are able to come and watch.  Prior to the show, they show pictures that were taken throughout the week.  The top two pictures are ones I took from the slide show.  She and Camryn are with their counselor in the top one and the bottom is a picture of her with her group--Sushi.

Lydia learned all of her lines without help at home.  She did a great job acting and her character of the Red Chief was flawless!  Such a cute play!

 Next year she will move up to the middle school group.  I am anxious to see how well she does with that.  The middle school group write the plays as opposed to the elementary groups that help their counselors decide what to write about and characters while the counselors write the plays.  All the kids work on their own props and pick their costumes.

It is such a great program and I hope that she is able to participate in it for the next few years.  Until she can be part of the drama club at her high school.

Penny and Adella were spending the week with my mom and dad and were able to come see Lydia's performance that night.  Each of us gave Lydia a flower.  She LOVED that!!  :)

Lydia and Camryn