Mem impressed Alison from the beginning. "That first scene, sums her up with her hopefulness, her thoughtfulness, her short temper and her spirited look on life. The first scene puts Mem right out there." Alison puts herself right out there too. When asked about her future plans, she laughed and said, "It's a very hectic schedule. I want to get a Medieval arts degree because I plan to produce, direct and star in my big masterpiece which will be placed in Medieval times. Then I want to go Oxford. Then I just might want to do something at New York University because I want to spend some time in New York, and act on Broadway and off-Broadway." But for now, Alison goes to a regular public school. She was nervous about attending a new one this year. "Everyone already knew each other. It was really tough. I was there for three days and then I was gone for a month (on a shoot). But I started to make friends when I got back. Now me and my friends go to lunch together, and have our own hang-out. We're getting ready for graduation, and I just played Sandy in my school play Grease." When her busy schedule feels really crazy, Alison turns to one of her favorite pastimes: reading. A book called Gifts from the Sea always relaxes her and has a special place in her heart because it was a gift from her grandmother. "I think it will turn into a family heirloom." That seems like something Mem would approve of. What does it take to get into this club? "We had the Falling Club on the set because we had a record number of falls in the episode." In the scene when Squanto first comes to eat with the settlers, Mem's mother has a dizzy spell, and falters as she walks towards the house. The men are supposed to rush and catch her as she faints. "But they fall over the log they're sitting on--feet flying in the air and everything! And then Brenda (who plays my mom) thinks they're behind her, so she falls, but I wasn't able to catch her, so she really falls." And then in the tragic scene when Mem is writing by the grave, she's supposed to get up and run down the hill. "But it is such a long skirt with so many layers. So I trip and fall, and then when someone comes to help me, we both fall again. We had a bit of trouble with the laughing, especially the second time. The whole crew is laughing their heads off, and I'm just trying to get through the serious scene without falling." Again. In what a Scholastic executive called "the culminating fall in the culminating scene," the director himself takes a hand-held camera to get right into the center of the Native American dance. But he trips over a cord and tumbles to the ground, camera still in hand, making for some very... um.... er... interesting footage! But the dancing scene looks just fine in the final cut. "It is so beautiful. Everybody coming together like that." She had a great time just watching it. "Sometimes you don't need to understand exactly the meaning of what someone is doing, you can just enjoy how happy they are doing it."