preliminary bloggage

here is some prelim. chiner stuffs.

i want to give you a transcript of one of the scenes i did in China for the English Video Project. This is primarily what I did in over there. I did as many as seven of these scenes in one day in various locations around a hotel/conference center in the rural outskirts of Beijing. Some were as short as this ode to shouting but some were much longer. It was a load of work but a good experience for sure. For the duration of the project I played Peter Lang who is described in his bio as:
Peter Lang age 19, height 5' 10" high school boy .
Very good joke, Friend with everyone easy to talk.

Nothing has been changed for the original script. The typos are not my doing. I wash my hands of all typos. Ever.

Scene 3H 7-2
emotion_shouting
Blame and Complaint

EMOTIONS - EXPRESSING TOPIC SHOUTING LEVEL 3
Peter Martin
Mike Mr. Lang

(Mike, Peter, and Martin are fifteen years old boys who like sports very much. One Saturday afternoon there are at Peter's house watching a soccer game on television. The television is in the living room and the boys are sitting on the sofa and chairs watching it. Martin has his head down and looks like he is sleeping. They tease each other good-naturedly.)

Mike: Hey Martin! Wake up!

Martin: Stop shouting. I am awake. Why does everyone always shout at me to wake me up? Can I help it that I'm tired?

Peter: O.K. Guys. Stop shouting. The game is starting.

Martin: Yeah. Mike is always shouting. Can't you guy talk normally?

Mike: (sarcastically) Right. Look who's talking - "Mr. Shout It Out".

Martin: Me? I can talk without shouting.

Peter: O.K ! O.K.! Look at that play! Where's the referee?

Martin: He's blind! Look! The keeper's shouting at the referee! And the referee is shouting back! He's shouting that the goal counts.

Mike: He's shouting to warn the keeper to get back in the net.

Peter: The score's one to zero after only one minute of play!

(The boys watch the game eagerly, occasionally shouting out comments like "Look at that play!" and "How could he miss?" and "Oh, no! It hit the crossbar!". Mr. Lang, Peter's father, walks into the room, carrying a tray of snacks and drinks which she has just prepared.)

Mr. Lang: Boys! Boys! Stop shouting! I thought you were all angry at each other. Now I see you are shouting because of the soccer game. Here are some snacks to give you more energy. At least eating will keep you from shouting for a while. Remember you can't shout when you have food in your mouth.

(He puts the tray of snacks on the table and starts to leave the room.)


Now you see what I was up against on a daily basis. We were also instructed to speak slowly so that the Chinese kids trying to learn English won't have such a hard time.

That's all for now, be back shortly. We're going to the post office to pick up a month's worth of mail. So much mail. It's going to be like Christmas opening all that mail.

Happy Holidays,
b