Wow, I haven't written a blog (on this site) for awhile! So here's a quick look into my life as a theatre major:

First of all, as I have written before, the rule at my uni is that first years can't audition for shows in their first semester. When I complained about this to my high school drama teachers, they assured me that the time would just "fly by!"

It is not flying by. Though I am busy, I stil have a LOT of free time on most days. Free time is wonderful sometimes- I love to just chill out sometimes... but I like to be really realy busy (which makes the free time even more special.) The biggest problem is that I don't know how to schedule myself without a show, so even though I have a good amount of free time, it's not usually spent doing something worthwhile. A show helps me prioritize- instead of coming back from a class and surfing the web, I'll do my homework right away. I mean, our show right now is Rocky Horror, which I am not too keen to be in, but at least it would a show.

Though I like it here for the most part, I still feel kind of trapped by not having a car. I don't really like driving, but not having a car means that even if I find auditions nearby, I need to take the train. And if the train only goes so far, I need to walk to get to my final destination. This is fine during that day, but there aren't that many theatre auditions happening during the day. Back home, if I didn't get in the play at school (which was usually the case), I just audtioned at one of the many theatres nearby. It's really hard for me to go from having three or four auditions a month to NONE.

Anyway, most of my classes are pretty cool. I am surprisingly enjoying improv. I really like my teacher and each week, we have to write two papers (which aren't very hard.) One of them we send directly to her, which has answers to questions about the class. She encourages us to answer honestly, and I know I do. We're allowed to say, "I thought this exercise was totally pointless," and she won't get mad. At the very beginning of the year, I wrote that I had a really hard time feeling comfortable doing movement, and she talked to me after class and told me that I could do it.

I am also taking Voice and Speech, which is hard but very interesting. We're learning IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), which is like learning a whole new language. How the class goes depends on wheher the teacher likes you that day or not. If she decides she does, you can make the biggest, most annoying mistakes, and she'll be cool with it. But if she doesn't, she picks at everything... and you never know which it will be.

My last theatre class is Lighting Practicum, which I hate. I am not a tech person, and I don't mean I think I'm above it- I mean, I've tried it and, by the end, people are like, "Um... how about you just watch, okay?" I'm awful. On Friday, we were asked to come in for a few hours to hang some lights. I was one of two people from my class who actually showed up (of course)... and that's when I found out that I am afraid of heights. I had a major panic attack on top of a twelve-foot ladder- palms sweating, head spinning, and telling myself over and over not to throw up (I didn't, thank God). However, I didn't want to see stupid, so I hung about six lights. Not fun. I never want to do it again. The worst part is that this class is three hours long (more when tech week come) and not worth a single credit. Next semester, we get to choose which Practicum we take, and I really want to do costumes. I'm not the best at using a sewing machine, I like to research costumes so it will at least be semi-enjoyable.

This semester, I also have math (ugh, don't ask), Thought and Expression (English, basically), and World of King Arthur (which is awesome).

I have joined a few clubs- the tv station (I'm on the panel of a movie review show today), Cabaret Club (drama club), English Club, Concert Choir,  Knight Club (dance), and Improv Club. I'm pretty excited about Cabaret Club's upcoming performance in December. We do musical theatre and we've chosen some cool songs. My only problem is with the audition- apparently, in years past, you did a dance audition and then you audition for every seperate number you wanted to be considered for. This year, we do the dance audition and then we choose one of the songs on our show list and sing it for all of the directors and they call you later. Now, I know they changed the process because the former was really long, but I'm really worried. I want to e considered for everything, but how can they tell how I'll do in Out Tonight from Rent if I audition with Notice Me Horton from Seussical? I am really concerned about this, especially since I have awful allerigies right now that are really afffecting my voice (the auditions are Monday).

So that's what I've been up to!