Finally, Pictures!

So I've finally gotten a breath to spare to put up pictures - although not much of one, as after this I need to lean up from Thanksgiving dinner, and do a few lessons of math. Oh, the life of a college student living at home!

One of the girls took this picture of the two of us backstage in the greenroom. :) (even if Thomas does look slightly like a girl because of his makeup. shhhhhh.)

This was the opening scene of the show - Thomas played Oliver from the play As You Like it.

Thomas still as Oliver, and me as Rosalind - pretending to be a man, and teaching Orlando how to romance Rosalind.

Still as Rosalind- both singing with other players, and pleading with my 'cousin' Celia.

Hamlet - and myself as Ophelia in the "Ger thee to a nunnery" scene.

Singing Ophelia's Mad Songs.

Thomas's other big scene - Spanish Tragedy, by Thomas Kyd.

The big finale - we all sang a Shakespearian drinking song!

So here you go - I'll try to put up the pictures from Thanksgiving sometime in this next week, however, I do have finals in the next two seeks, so I am going to be ultra-busy!

Never going to summer school again...

...Because it's too fast. There's so much information to process in such a short amount of time! I took two classes over the summer, voice and advanced algebra. Voice would have been nice, had I not been coming straight from camp every day. My voice was practically shot - but I have learned some lovely classical songs that are nice to add to my list of songs I can perform upon command. My voice teacher loves me (coincidentally, she is in choir with mom at 1st Pres.) and is bugging me to take lessons with her throughout the next year. I told her that once I find the money, I'll do my best. We'll see.

Math has been hard. I haven't been able to concentrate fully, because by the time I would get to my math class at 6pm (the class was about 3 hours, twice a week) I'd be exhausted from a full 7 hours at camp, and I could only eat dinner on the nights Thomas's mother took pity on me and would send me a dinner. (DISCLAIMER: I usually packed myself a big lunch on those days which normally was enough, but you know mothers.) It's also a subject that just doesn't come naturally to me. The teacher, while nice, was not able to help me "see" the problems, as my last couple of teachers have. However, I've been managing to keep my grade right above passing, so now I just have to worry about the final on Thursday.

Life is moving much too fast sometimes, and much too slow at others. I'm dreading the start of school again, but at the same time I'm looking forward to it. School means a more steady schedule! I've also gotten myself a job babysitting/nannying 4 afternoons a week for two adorable children. The little girl was actually in my group at camp (she's the dark-haired girl in braids in my post about camp) she's 7, and her brother is 4. I'll be caring for them through the school semester, and then I might also be looking for another morning job, if I can get one that a) I can get up for, and b) Will let me off in time for a 10am class. We'll see. It's going to be a very very busy semester, that's for sure!

A Week at School

In rehearsal for 'Clue'. From left to right we have Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White (who is played in Drag :D) and Mr. Green. And then our Director Kay just made it into the shot, lol.

Hanging out after the rehearsal with some lovely friends!

Here we have Taylor and Christian, who are playing Mr. Boddy and the Detective in the play - they're some of the few nice/sane people at school, and I absolutely love both of them. :D

This is the Blackbox Theater in which we rehearse when we can't get onto the stage. It usually doesn't look this nice, but I had to take a picture when I wandered in one day and saw it looking all pristine.

Here is an example of what I carry with me at school on a daily basis. Well, except for the flowers - those are carried around only on special occasions.

there's a ray of hope at the end of the hallway...

Information Literacy class

I don't understand why I go to college with such stupid people. Before class today, there was a sign on the class room door that said 'Go To Library'. As usual, I was the first person to arrive in the hall, and I sat down, and started going over dance vocabulary. Three minutes later, these two guys (who apparently are in my class, although I didn't recall seeing them before) came over and wondered of the notice was for them to get to the library.

Ms. K. has only been telling us for the past 4 or so classes about how her 9am class was going to be held at the libary today. But whatever. I told the two boys that no, the sign was for the class ahead of ours, and that we were going to be in our normal classroom.

I then went back to my vocab, and they went to talking about class, and one of the guys was like "yea, today's when we finish that horse farm flyer, right?" The other guy informed him "dude, no, we were supposed to submit it today. We're gonna do a new flyer in class."

I wanted to do a facepalm. a) I had that first assignment in a week ago, and b) I started that second one two classes ago. I stopped when it became apparent that I'd have nothing to do in class today. Instead, I did the weekend's homework, because almost everyone else was working on the first flyer.

This is an easy class. And the teacher makes it even easier - she's always pushing back our deadlines, and because of the snow, she's been extra easy on absences and late assignments.

And people are failing this class!!

I don't understand it at all. Maybe it'll get harder later on, but this is easily the sasiest class I've taken here so far. Sure there's a little bit of technical reading. And yeah, you have to be able to follow directions to the letter. But other than that. It's not that hard.