Wow… keeping up this blog is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Sorry about the broken promises, I’m surprised I have any time to update this at all. Well, another week gone by, six Fridays left, but only five weeks left, until Christmas comes. I can’t wait till I can start singing Christmas tunes (don’t tell anyone, but have been humming them under my breath since the end of Halloween). Normally I’m not this excited for Christmas, but I’ve been knitting scarves like crazy trying to get all of my presents done while trying to do school too. Maybe that’s why I have no time to update this blog.
So Monday was a pretty regular day. I got to school and discovered that everyone, and I mean everyone, is getting the flu or something. It is crazy. Even though I am unable to get sick I have even had a bit of a cough all weekend. So that was good news. In Shakespeare, the final group went and finished the first run through of the monologues. I got my homework back and unfortunately, I apparently got a lot of the scansion completely wrong, which doesn’t surprise me too much. I’m going to take it in to the teacher tomorrow and ask him what I can do better, because it’s really hard.
Then came Tuesday; the big day when I was going to sing my MVP song for the third and final time. I had a good morning in Vocal Tech and Rep Lab, but I was thinking about “The Light in the Piazza” for almost the whole time. Finally when I got to rehearse with the pianist, my teacher came in looking rather green. She unfortunately informed us that she was going home after she just puked in the bathroom. We wished her the best and then I had to wait until Friday to sing my song.
Wednesday is so long and because of the time change, it’s dark when I leave the school at night now. So after a nice jazz class in the morning I had one of the longest afternoons ever. In Improv we had a really good conversation about status and how to act high and low status. It was an insightful class and showed a lot of people if they themselves were high or low status. It was really difficult for me to act high status, but it was also kind of enlightening.
Thursday finally came, the day of the history test that everyone had been freaking out about since last weekend. It was only three pages long and I am not too worried about how well I did at all. I know that I studied and I pretty confident with most of my answers so what is there to worry about? After Stagecraft and an exciting Dance Performance class, I finally had MVP. I know that there’s still a lot to work on in the song, but Marie said that I’ve come a long way from when I sang it the first time. The main point was to find my confidence, which I something I found myself working constantly on since I came here. I think that I’ve come a long way, but I know that there’s still a long way to go. And hey! I have three years, right?
Friday is the lame day, as you all know, which is nice, because it’s at the end of the week. After a morning of ballet and those other two classes, I had my first acting tech class that was marked. We are finally doing monologues and I’ve chosen mine from “Death of a Salesman” One of Linda’s monologues. I didn’t go this week, because I’m signed up to go next week. Working with Greg Peterson was very interesting and I found that he left a lot up to you to figure out. He asked a lot about where you’re character came from and what happened in the moment before. I’m very glad that I’ll be prepared to go next week and hopefully I’ll kind of know what I’m doing.
So I’ll try to get on it with these updates. No promises, but if I miss Tuesdays and Fridays then I’ll probably update on Sunday. So I’ll talk to you guys later have a good weekend, and hopefully it will be better than mine, which was spent in bed.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Finishing the Hat
Surprise! I have a pretty big break here at school, so I figured I would just update while I’m waiting to go to my acting tech class. Luckily, there have been a lot of absent teachers this week so there’s less for me to talk about. And I also decided I’d be too busy/tired on Sunday to update anyway.
So Monday was so strange. It was the first day back at school since the break and I fell back into the routine right away. Tap was in the morning, it was odd having those shoes on again, but my muscle memory served me well. Then we started to talk about our assessments in December so we would know what to expect. After that class we had an ear training test, which was very ordinary. I don’t know how well I did, but I guess I’ll find out next week. Then later, in Shakespeare, I finally got up to do my monologue! I chose one of Olivia’s monologues from the first part of twelfth night. Apparently I had a good understanding of the text, which surprised me, and then he just told me to work on my breath support. I am really glad that I finally got up. Surprisingly I think this is my first Shakespeare monologue that I’ve actually worked on.
Then on Tuesday morning I had vocal tech, in which we just worked on Analyzing sheet music. Basically we were given a song (“Love, I Hear” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and we have to go through and circle all of the important musical terms and symbols that would help us sing the song. Forunately, I have done exercises like that before, so I understand what’s going on. Then rep lab was completely normal and the group presenting had Sondheim as their composer. It was so great! They had this funny concept about people being an asylum called the Sondheim Woods asylum and they periodically sang through a handful of great songs. It was very funny and I enjoyed it a lot.
Wednesday morning my jazz teacher was sick, so I got an extra ballet class. Yay! Later, in Improv we did some scatting improve, which I found surprisingly easy and fun. Chelsey and I had a great scatting conversation, which was so awesome. Then I sang “Bubbly” again in Pop, but the teacher seems to want me to sing harder songs, which is understandable. Pop makes me so nervous, because I honestly don’t think I sound good singing it. I might try to singing “Taking Chances” if I can get my confidence up. Voice and Text was the same as always, nothing too odd happened in that class.
I think that Thursday is super easy after the mornings. After a long morning of History and Stagecraft, I went to dance class feeling kind of defeated. I got to class and started to warm myself up, when one of the second years came in and told us the teacher was sick so class was cancelled. Some of the dancers, me included, stayed anyways and had our own short class. It was fun to just dance around and even do a bit of our own choreography. Then we had MVP, which we have been singing the same song for the third time. I signed up to go on Tuesday, so in the next update I’ll tell you how it goes and hopefully I’ll be able to tell you what song I’m singing next.
Other than Ballet, nothing has really happened today yet. I had a lovely Ballet class this morning, in which we also talked about what we were doing in assessments. Now I’m just waiting for my acting class to start. We’re supposed to work on viewpoints today so I’m pretty excited about that. I might write again this weekend, but if not, I’ll write again on Tuesday. Thank you guys for all your support and I’ll try to get back into the swing of writing these twice a week.
It’s the seventh Friday!!
So Monday was so strange. It was the first day back at school since the break and I fell back into the routine right away. Tap was in the morning, it was odd having those shoes on again, but my muscle memory served me well. Then we started to talk about our assessments in December so we would know what to expect. After that class we had an ear training test, which was very ordinary. I don’t know how well I did, but I guess I’ll find out next week. Then later, in Shakespeare, I finally got up to do my monologue! I chose one of Olivia’s monologues from the first part of twelfth night. Apparently I had a good understanding of the text, which surprised me, and then he just told me to work on my breath support. I am really glad that I finally got up. Surprisingly I think this is my first Shakespeare monologue that I’ve actually worked on.
Then on Tuesday morning I had vocal tech, in which we just worked on Analyzing sheet music. Basically we were given a song (“Love, I Hear” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and we have to go through and circle all of the important musical terms and symbols that would help us sing the song. Forunately, I have done exercises like that before, so I understand what’s going on. Then rep lab was completely normal and the group presenting had Sondheim as their composer. It was so great! They had this funny concept about people being an asylum called the Sondheim Woods asylum and they periodically sang through a handful of great songs. It was very funny and I enjoyed it a lot.
Wednesday morning my jazz teacher was sick, so I got an extra ballet class. Yay! Later, in Improv we did some scatting improve, which I found surprisingly easy and fun. Chelsey and I had a great scatting conversation, which was so awesome. Then I sang “Bubbly” again in Pop, but the teacher seems to want me to sing harder songs, which is understandable. Pop makes me so nervous, because I honestly don’t think I sound good singing it. I might try to singing “Taking Chances” if I can get my confidence up. Voice and Text was the same as always, nothing too odd happened in that class.
I think that Thursday is super easy after the mornings. After a long morning of History and Stagecraft, I went to dance class feeling kind of defeated. I got to class and started to warm myself up, when one of the second years came in and told us the teacher was sick so class was cancelled. Some of the dancers, me included, stayed anyways and had our own short class. It was fun to just dance around and even do a bit of our own choreography. Then we had MVP, which we have been singing the same song for the third time. I signed up to go on Tuesday, so in the next update I’ll tell you how it goes and hopefully I’ll be able to tell you what song I’m singing next.
Other than Ballet, nothing has really happened today yet. I had a lovely Ballet class this morning, in which we also talked about what we were doing in assessments. Now I’m just waiting for my acting class to start. We’re supposed to work on viewpoints today so I’m pretty excited about that. I might write again this weekend, but if not, I’ll write again on Tuesday. Thank you guys for all your support and I’ll try to get back into the swing of writing these twice a week.
It’s the seventh Friday!!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Anything Goes
Hey you guys! Sorry this post was so long in the making. Unfortunately, considering that I’m pressed for time, this won’t be a very long post. First, let me talk about my break. It was absolutely incredible! I didn’t get to see all the people I wanted, but it was still an amazing time. I spent a lot of valuable time with my family and puppy-sitting Lily. I wish that I’d had the time to see everyone. It just made me super anxious for Christmas. In ballet class yesterday we even listened to Christmas music, which, I will admit, was a little annoying. It’s still only November, it’s not even halfway done yet.
On that note, there are only 7 Fridays remaining!! Then I’ll be back for three weeks and I’ll be done my first semester, therefore less stressed out than I am now. These past two days have been absolutely crazy. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened, except that everyone has been getting sick, and each day feels like a month. I fell back into going to school so easily that it’s hard to believe that it’s been four days.
Sorry for the crappy update, but I have to run. I won’t be able to update on Friday night, but I promise that Sunday there will be another post up. Love you all lots and thanks for bearing with me while everything is so crazy.
On that note, there are only 7 Fridays remaining!! Then I’ll be back for three weeks and I’ll be done my first semester, therefore less stressed out than I am now. These past two days have been absolutely crazy. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened, except that everyone has been getting sick, and each day feels like a month. I fell back into going to school so easily that it’s hard to believe that it’s been four days.
Sorry for the crappy update, but I have to run. I won’t be able to update on Friday night, but I promise that Sunday there will be another post up. Love you all lots and thanks for bearing with me while everything is so crazy.
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