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.
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