Bucket List

Before I pass on, there are several goals I must achieve in life; hence, my Bucket List. I will begin with the ones of high desire and passion and rank them from there.

1. Allow my parents an early retirement. (Buy a new house, pay off the mortgage, buy them things they've wanted but sacrificed for me and my siblings)

2. Anonymously donate $25,000 to four different charities.

3. Spend time in several parts of Africa, India and China with the impoverished families and fund as many people as I can.

4. Build at least one School/Hospital/Village in each of the three countries listed in #3.

5. Create my own charitable foundation. (Haven't decided what cause yet, but I am very passionate about eradicating poverty so most likely something along those lines.)

6. Become a famous actress in Hollywood, LA. (Like Angelina Jolie!)

7. Complete law school and earn my master's degree. (Become a lawyer and receive a gun license.)

8. Take my family on month long world-tour vacation, visiting all our desired locations and resorts.

9. Buy a dog. (I've wanted one since I was eight-years old. I want one, not as a pet, but as a best friend.)

10. Buy the town-house I grew up in back and have it renewed and refurbished.

11. Buy a condominium in Toronto, around Harbour Front. (Downtown Toronto is my favourite place in the world. Harbour Front is nearby downtown and it has a beach with a track that runs alongside the shore, which is great since I love riding my bike)

12. Make a massive world-wide contribution to the ending of Global Warming.

My Bucket List consists of 12 goals because my old address street number was 1209 and that is and forever will be my home. Also, when I was 12-years old, that's the year we moved out of that house, which was a major life changing moment.

Summer Fierce

Post-Branding

Yesterday was the actual day of branding. The boys were up first. More than half the class including me, showed up to school between 7-7:30AM. The day has only just begun at this point. The boys' gifts went missing, they lost some media footage and ran into other setbacks. The girls were scrambling around, waiting for the late arrivers of the group. Once we had all the girls, we had to rehearse our choral word piece, which had NOT been rehearsed as a full group once. By this time, we were only able to run through half of it, as the bell had rung two minutes ago. The guests began arriving - some of them high -profiled celebrities and the girls were on front of house. We split up and covered all the entrances of the schools. Finally, all the guests arrived and the boys' presentation began. They opened strong with a performance, as did the girls. In all honesty, they bought more personality to the table. But we bought more media. Our media was all well-thought out and had all or most of the group contributing to the several components. We ran into a few issues with the itinerary during our presentation, but it all came down to how we dealt with them. We handled it professionally. We used our charms and we sold ourselves. We had the judges fall in love with us. With the media, the name, and the professionalism, we won. We won. After two years of losing to the boys, we won. Third times a charm. We want to congratulate the boys on a fight well fought. We all gave it what we had. But at the end of the day, I guess the girls gave it a little more. So we present to you Soul Visionary Productions. May this be a year to remember.

The Girls of Soul Visionary Productions

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Summer Fierce

Pre-Branding

As I've mentioned before, I am in the Acting Academy class. As a class have to brand ourselves. Last years grade eleven class, which I was also a part of, was called Stagelife Productions. It was phenomenal. Once again, it is boys vs. girls. For the past two years, the boys have won. Now that we're in our senior year, hopefully the girls have learned how to strategize better and will take home the gold. Branding includes, what seems like, millions of different components. We need to have a name, colours, logo, business card, website, t-shirt, newsletter, playbill, media, a callboard, a fashion show, food and refreshments, etc. And as the cherry on top, we've got celebrity judges on presentation date, so the pressure is definitely there. We had about a week and a half and it all comes down to whatever happens Monday.
Branding is extremely stressful, but can also be a lot of fun, depending on the group of people you're working with. This year and last, I am blessed to say that I am working with a tremendously talented, extraordinary group of girls. We hit a few rough patches, had our minor arguments here and there, but in the end, we all supported each other and had each other's backs.
It took me over six hours to print out half the newsletters, which was probably the most stressful part of branding for me.
I am the main female model and I modelled for the photos in the Lookbook and will be modelling the day of. I modelled last year too. All this modelled has actually sparked an interest inside of me to consider it as a side job!
I wish the boys the best of luck, and the same to the girls. Whoever wins, wins. In the end, we're all still a family, so after the branding, set aside all your differences and congratulate one another.

Summer Fierce

So You Think You Can Dance Canada - Trip

On Thursday September 23rd, 2010, my Acting Academy class went on a trip to So You Think You Can Dance Canada. While on this trip, we were each assigned different roles. Roles including: a celebrity, groupies, the overly nice person, directors, casting directors,dancers, the claustrophobic person, sick person, bodyguard, singer, etc. I played the role of a director, along with my buddy, Sharisa, and we were supposedly casting for a movie that her dad was filming. So the two of us would go up to a few people and ask to feel their hair for a hair commercial or go up to someone and tell them they have 'the look we're looking for' and in the end, we ended up with four or five different peoples' contact information. Usually, from the last trips we took there, we'd have had to have been standing in the mosh pit for the show. But, we told the crew members over and over again that we were very high in importance and that we needed to be seated so we can scope the audience for possible stars for the movie. They believed us. And in little to no time we had ourselves nice comfy seats in the audience. That's when we decided we should pay it forward. So we pointed out Sheldon, who was playing the role of the claustrophobic person, to the crew and told them he can't be in such a tight crowd and that he NEEDS to be seated. And that he was. They put him in an isolated seat, but at least the view was nice and he was comfy too.
I learned that when you're a big name person or a celebrity, you are treated with so much more respect. People go out of their way to please you. But at the same time it almost feels like they fear you. To some, this may give a feeling of superiority, but to others, it can make you feel almost disliked. I learned how to scope an audience and really feel the essence of being a director. Shoulders back the entire time. Arms crossed for a percentage of the time.
When you do a method acting assignment such as this one, you need to uphold your character throughout. Otherwise it becomes unbelievable. You can't be completely aware of absolutely everyone around you at all times, so if you re acting normal one minute and then you re a director or claustrophobic the next minute, people are going to look at you weird and they obviously wont believe your role.
All-in-all the trip was amazing and the method acting assignment was a success!

Summer Fierce

Opening Remarks

Hello! It feels good to be back in the blogging world. I am Summer Fierce, A.K.A Ramona Persaud.

I am a senior at Fletcher's Meadow S.S., so this is my year to graduate. Yeah! Right now, I am enrolled in an Acting Academy Class, which is basically the reasoning behind this blog. I have wanted to become an actress since I was around eight-years-old and I feel that my time to shine is, hopefully, nearing. Last year I was in the 'Director's Craft Package', (which I explained in further detail in my old blog : http://ramonapersaud.edublogs.org/ ) and I really began to evolve into an actress. Although, I don't feel I was that good at that time. But over the summer, I had a lot of time. Alone time. So I took that time to play around with my emotions and train myself how to get in touch with them on an acting basis. I feel that that has really, really helped me, as I can now, usually, cry on cue or display most emotions on cue and make them look and feel real to the audience.

Another major happening event in my life, is that I recently, i.e. this week, got my first part-time job. It is stressful having a job, but it's my first and I spent too long trying to find it (2 and a half years) to let it go. So that's that situation.

The Acting Academy Class always does a Branding, to choose our name, colours, logo, slogan and so on. It is, yet again, girls vs. boys and the boys have won twice already, so HOPEFULLY this is the girls' year to shine. Branding commences on September 27th, so it's rolling in pretty fast.

This blog will be mainly be based on hardships and milestones in life. Others are assigned topics by my teacher, which will probably be based on acting and the industry. Read on, and enjoy!

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Summer Fierce