WEDNESDAY 20/05/09
We headed to Red Dot museum for the days non elimination challenge. Rena dressed us in Pull & Bear outfits and we met with Irene Ang a comedian, actress and host who would be taking us through our challenge for the day.
Irene asked us each to choose an animal that we thought represented our personalities. I chose a cat because I see myself as an observer who keeps to herself and fairly mild but friendly. Irene asked us to act out the animal we had chosen and then for us all to interact with each other. I think we all may have chosen different animals if we knew we’d have to act them out.
The next exercise was for us each to choose a prop from a suitcase and I chose a pair of handcuffs. Irene told us that we had to each sell the item we had chosen and demonstrate the uses of the item and the more creative the better. Along with that we had to present it in a certain style (we had to choose from a bunch of cards) and I chose Bollywood. I put on an Indian accent, possibly the worst Indian accent ever but nevertheless i explained the wonderful uses of the handcuffs and came up with some crazy concepts and made the girls giggle a bit.
Irene announced anna as the winner of the challenge and she won a water bottle…brilliant i know. Then we were split into groups and given characters and a scene from a movie to act out. I was grouped with Anna and we had a scene from The Devil Wears Prada where anna was the angry intimidating boss and i was the scared and nervous assistant. Anna was brilliant at the role and even thought i don’t think of myself as an actress i thought i did ok too. I was actually proud of my effort because I let loose and really tried to feel the character to make the role more believable. It was unlike me to let go but i think this competition has brought out a new side of me and has to some degree made me less of a control freak.
Irene told us the winning group would win a shopping spree at River Island which every single girl was dying to have. The winners were announced as Christabel, Kat and Jenny’s group and the overall best actress was Anna so she got the same prize. I was incredibly jealous because who wouldn’t want that prize?? After we were done the girls got their shopping bonanza at Vivo City. It was depressing watching them all run around choosing what they were getting but I helped anna choose out a few things to keep me occupied. I ended up buying myself a bag and skirt so my inner shopaholic was satisfied and i didn’t feel so envious of the girls even though the stuff they got was amazing.
We came home for dinner and confessions and all of us except for Ciara went for a jog around the block for a bit of exercise and a chance to chat outside of the house. Ciara has started to really exclude herself from group activities, we asked her to join us but she said she didn’t feel like it which is fair enough but to be honest there’s only so much any of us will try to include her in things, the rest is up to her. We were all so sweaty and panting from the jog so we sat around the pool to cool our feet and Kat pushed me in the pool so we all ended up jumping in and mucking around taking crazy photos.
