Lazy Sunday

Hello everyone! Well it has truly been a whirlwind week. Classes are winding up and rehearsals for "Clownsville" are plunging forward. I will try to summarize the week without being too boring! Sunday evening I went to church again and it was amazing. They continued to talk about David and in this sermon they discussed anger. Some anger is good, and even biblical, and they called this gospel anger. But of course there is another kind of anger, which makes things worse, and they called it toxic anger. I could post a whole blog about it, but I will just say that I really love this church. It always makes me think and I am learning a lot of new things!

For the final week of classes (next week!), we are only going to have Acting class to prepare for our final scenes. So this last week brought an end to Voice & Speech, Vocal Production, and Movement classes. For Voice & Speech, our final assignment was to read a poem, song, or something with heightened language aloud to the class so she could further correct our speech problems. I chose "The Tiger" by William Blake (one of my favorite poems)! This class isn't the most exciting in all the world, but it is necessary and useful. I'm glad to have this knowledge. For Vocal Production, we sang our song one last time. It was okay...he told me I need to utilize the "power" in my voice. I liked my song, but I really don't think it was a good fit for my voice. But it was a fun class, and I learned a lot. In Movement, we did our final round of Yoga which consisted of 10 Sun Salutations in a row...yikes! Then we did some Movement exercises from something called "Viewpoints." It's immensely interesting to me...it's all about spacing, tempo, spatial relations with other people, etc. We did not talk the whole time, and you'd be surprised how interesting it was to watch. I guess it's like body language or something. So much is going on even without a single word. Our teacher is so passionate about it that she got teary-eyed when talking about it at the end of class - she said it revolutionized her views of acting. In Acting we just continue to rehearse our scenes.

Rehearsals for the musical are going pretty well and we are about halfway done with blocking the show. There is so much silly stuff we have to do, both in warm-ups and in the actual show. I used to feel stupid doing that sort of thing, but not anymore, because it's so different from what I was doing before I came here (working 9-5 in my little gray windowless cubicle...) that it actually feels kind of good! We learned the choreography for one of the songs and it is a pretty good work out. My quads are killing me!!!

I continue to look for a job, but have not had a lot of time to dedicate to it this week. I have decided to stay in NYC through September to see if I can find something. I will keep you posted on that, but please send good luck wishes this way! :-)

This weekend I have been feeling a bit under the weather (mostly of the sore throat variety), so my time has pretty much consisted of eating, sleeping, reading, and laundry (how exciting)! Oh, I also went to the Performing Arts library again yesterday to return a book and I perused a ballet exhibit (Julie, you would have loved it). I am feeling better today though and I am going out in a bit to the thrift store. I play a nun in my scene and need to find a long black skirt or dress. Afterwards I am going to church. Another girl at my residence is going to the same service, too. I did go out Friday night to celebrate a classmate's birthday. Mar, from Spain, turned 25 and she wanted to go to a Sushi restaurant! It was a really nice place on the Upper East Side. Here is a picture of the gang:

Aww, I am going to miss everyone! This Thursday, Mom and Dad are coming in and I can't wait to see them! I will try to post more often this week :-)