I have been so, so incredibly busy lately!
Excluding all the intense amounts of homework (a given towards the end of the semester), I crewed Urinetown for two weekends and went on ROTC's field training exercise this weekend.

I was really sad to see Urinetown end, because now all of the season's shows are finished. However, the show had six very successful runs, and all the graduating seniors in the show definitely concluded their PC career on a high note, so many congratulations to them!

I am already very excited about next year--there's some fantastic shows on schedule, which will be officially announced on the website some time this summer.
The student productions (those staged entirely by students) will also be announced then, which I am very happy about because there have been some great ideas floating around...

I spent last week preparing for ROTC--first this semester's Physical Training test (which I am very happy to say was my best yet!) and then for this weekend's Field Training Exercise with ROTC. We have an FTX every semester, because it allows us to get out in a new environment and practice the things we learn in lab. It's a lot of work, but I always walk away feeling confident and accomplished; I always learn something new and refine what I already knew.
We practice our battle drills, focusing on both our troop leading procedures (the steps) and our tactics, and we practice land navigation (during the day and at night). We also have a ruck march or two (which is when you carry all your equipment in your ruck, on your back, and the entire element moves out in a tactical manner) and sometimes, like this weekend, we get to do teamwork and leadership builders, like the reaction course (which is similar to an obstacle course, except that you work in teams, making and executing plans according to the troop leading procedures).

ROTC'S Annual Awards Ceremony is this Sunday, and then it's only a few weeks until our seniors are officially commissioned as second lieutenants!

I have lots of pictures to post for all of you, and even more on the way after that (what with all the end-of-semester events coming up), so keep checking back!