Speech and Acting Tournament in Brussels...

While we were in Tallinn, the girls had their own adventures. Ashlynn went to see Wicked in Dutch for a friend’s birthday, then spent the rest of the weekend at Sally’s. Meanwhile, Veronica spent two nights in Brussels to participate in NESDA, the New European Speech, Debate and Acting Tournament. She was thrilled to be among the ten students chosen from our school to participate. They took the train down after school and split up to stay at students’ homes from the host school, International School of Brussels. She participated in three disciplines: duet acting (a British comedy bit--this is the original starting at 4:30), original oratory (she wrote a speech about the Shakespeare Conspiracy) and oral interpretation (she read a passage from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close). She and Maaike made it into the finals for their duet, but didn’t come home with an award. All-in-all, a great experience and she’s already hoping to do it again next year.

Our School Team