It bothers me when people who have hell weeks in sports look down at other groups’ hell weeks, e.g. choir, speech, drama, etc. Yeah, we don’t endure that physical pain that you guys go through, but does that mean it’s not a hell week? Does everything have to be measured by physical pain? Does that mean we don’t work as hard, or possibly harder? Yeah, some of the hell weeks for certain activities aren’t as hard as the ones people in sports go through, but take drama. Hell week. The cast is there till at least 10pm, and I’ve been at school until nearly 11pm. That’s afterschool until about 11pm rehearsing, practicing over and over again - running lines with people, fixing the set, practicing songs with groups or individually, running through the whole show at least twice - probably with no dinner or a bag of chips and a bottle of water. No start on homework either. I get home, eat dinner, shower, and start my homework around 12am. I’m not sore from exercising, but yes, believe it or not, it does hurt running everywhere around the theatre and up the stairs multiple times when you’re half dead. And yes, I’m exhausted, and so is everyone else who’s ever been through a hell week of any kind. Maybe not your type of exhaustion, but it’s still tiring and I hate that some people don’t acknowledge that just because they can’t directly relate to it themselves.