getting over the hump

It’s taken me a while to post a new blog… much less write one. Half the time I would just look at the blank screen, and think, what the heck do I write?! My life is one big writer’s block right now. But the only way to get over the hump is just start writing I suppose.

Iphigenia 2.0 has been an interesting experience. I have learned a lot. I’ve also had many frustrations, but I’m working through them. Mei Ann told me that she can see a lot of improvement in my acting, which is quite possibly one of the best compliments I’ve ever received. I don’t think this is a play that takes me out of my comfort zone, but I am learning a lot about technique, movement, expression, as well as how to work with others in a chorus. Between Iphigenia and my Bay Area Theater class, I being engulfed with theater, and I love it. The BATS class gives me a chance to watch others perform and learn so many techniques. “Tragedy: A Tragedy” taught me that movement is not always necessary in order to make a great impact on an audience. This was a play that was completely naturalistic, with all 4 actors staying positioned in their corner, yet the play made such an impression on the audience. “The Trojan Women,” on the other hand, had a great amount of movement and floor pattern with their chorus, and in the same way this made a great impression on me (regardless of what some people might say)

And also, I am going camping this weekend. Sadly enough, this is my first time camping….. so I don’t know what to expect (except maybe a really cold night lol). Twill be interesting.

There is more that I want to write now, but sleep is calling my name. More later.

spring break awesomeness

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. But thats because I had an amazing spring break…and then my computer died on me (so I have to borrow my roommates for the time being). The quarter ended on a fairly good note. Unfortunately, I lowered my gpa a little, so that bummed me out. So, I’ll have to work my butt off to raise it back up again.

Half of spring break was spent up at school. I borrowed a friend’s room to sleep and did pretty much nothing besides sleep, watch TONS of Lost (I’m finally on season 2), and take trips to Napa. Uneventful, but I definitely needed to veg for a while.  Then, on Tuesday, Tim and I drove down to Anaheim at 6:45 am (right after he got off work). We got in by 2 pm and pretty much crashed.  On Wed, we spent the entire day at Disneyland & California Adventures. I wish I could write about how amazing it all was and how exciting the rides were and how much I just loooooove Disneyland, but that would take way too much time. We hit up pretty much every ride in one day, and by midnight our legs were really sore. Thursday, JohnO joined up with us, and we took it a little more leisurely, searching for hidden Mickeys, watching the Fantasmic show and one of the parades, and actually sitting for a while.  And, it was good. We left around 11ish, and drove over to John’s house to spend the night. And we also played Super Mario Party on his Wii, which is so sweet. I want one now. John made us breakfast, which was soooo good Then we took off to Malibu to see Brandon and grab some Thai food. We headed up the coast and got into SF on Saturday. Of course, we couldn’t pass up the city since we were already in the area, and ended up spending way too much money at American Apparel We got into Angwin around midnight and I crashed. But, this was probably the best spring break that I’ve ever had. I couldn’t ask for a better one… now I just need to work and make all that money back that I spent :p