You Walk With Me

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

Maybe I should start putting lame quotes at the beginning of all my posts. Actually, I might start writing funny ones at the end if I can find them. I just read that in Tweflth Night, so it seemed appropriate to write it down. It was on my mind. I’ve heard many renditions of that quote and I didn’t realize that it was from a Shakespeare play.

Wednesday was relatively normal. After Jazz class I had about 3 hours to spare. I read some Shakespeare, hung out with some friends and ate my lunch. It was pretty basic for a Wednesday. Later we had our Improv class which was really cool this week. We worked with viewpoints and I found it was a lot of fun. We did some grid work, which is very interesting to watch and participate in. She let us do a lot of watching and I love it when teachers to that. I find watching things is very effective for me, especially when I don’t understand something.

After that was Pop class; I got to watch a couple amazing performances by my friends. I find that everyone has improved so much even though it’s only been a month since we all started in this program. Voice and Text is proving to be a lot harder for other people that I find it. The lessons are a little out there, but my classmates are having trouble understanding some of the concepts. Personally, I haven’t had that much trouble. I’m very open to that method of teaching, so it doesn’t make me super frustrated or angry if I don’t get it at first. I’m having trouble understanding my friends difficulties with it.

I love Thursday mornings… Not! History is proving to be very challenging for me. Those of you who know me well know how much I love history. Luckily, it’s theatre history, but I still find it really hard to take sufficient notes. We already have a quiz coming up next week and I can’t help but feel nervous for it. I know that if I study hard I’ll get a good mark, but I just don’t know if I’ll know enough. So wish my luck with that quiz, because I do find it scary.

We finished our amazing Fosse routine in Dance today, which it sad, because I found myself really enjoying it. We’re having a guest teacher next week, so that will be a lot of fun. In MVP we finally started on the second round of our songs. The last performances were, “Purpose” and “Dance: 10, Looks: 3”. Both were amazing to watch, especially “Dance: 10, Looks: 3” Marie had a lot of fun stuffing Brooke’s shirt in that song. It was very entertaining by the end. I think that I want to perform my song again next Tuesday, hopefully. I’ll have to get together with the Piano player before that and see what she thinks.

Today was good, even though I didn’t do a lot in the morning. Ballet was good and we even had the Vice President come see our class for 2 minutes before leaving. Then we spent the last 40 minutes of class talking with Gillian, who is probably my favourite dance teacher. We talked about the National Ballet School, where she trained in London, and how horrible her audition was, even though she still got in. The rest of the day was really easy. Again I had no ear training, so I spent my break with Victoria and we had some good times. Then there was Computer Skills, where I finished the assignment in an hour and it’s still not due for two weeks.

In Acting today we did a really difficult exercise. Unfortunately for you guys, I’m not actually supposed to talk about what happened in acting class to other people. Let’s just say it was an exercise in emotional trust and letting the other students know something about you that you never tell anyone. There were a lot of tears and lot of people have had to deal with some shitty things. I felt good about that class; because it lets you see a side of people you might not have noticed before.

So I think that I might write an entry on the Stratford trip over the weekend at some point, because I won’t be able to fully describe it on Tuesday. I’ll see how awesome tomorrow is and possibly write something. Write again soon!