Happy New Year!
Happy 2007 everyone! Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, but I couldn't think of anything particularly significant to post about. Hopefully this will be a much brighter post than my last one. But first, the bad news: our aunt's dog, Penny, passed away a few days before Christmas. Our aunt had been at work all day, and it hurt her that she couldn't be there when it happened. And then she couldn't get ahold of anyone to tell the news to. Joanna and I got home half an hour after she left a message on our answering machine. We felt so bad. Anyway, things are slowly getting back to some semblance of normal. . .
In other news, the Spring semester has started. The first week has officially ended and we are relatively intact. Joanna has three classes and I have two: Intro to Theatre and Music, Machines and Performance (the latter with Joanna). They seem really interesting.
The theatre class is gonna be kinda scary since it will bring me way out of my comfort zone. We'll be doing a lot of solo and group work. For example, on Wednesday, I have to do a one-minute performance in front of the whole class. Everyone has to do it, anything they want, so long as it will hold the audience's attention. We had one girl today act out being a monkey. Another person told a story about playing mini golf and the trials he had with that, and another person sang a song. There were a lot of monologues and some improv things (people didn't know what to do, so they just talked for a minute). I was thinking about playing an excerpt from a Horn concerto, but I don't know how stupid I'd look. First off, I haven't played in forever. Second, no one else has played anything. How entertaining is a bad rendition of a chopped up Mozart horn concerto? Maybe I'll get a laugh, even though that's not quite what I'm going for. . .
Our Humanities class seems pretty cool. There are a few grad students in there, though, so a bunch of the conversations they have go over my head. Not because I don't understand them, but because they are so rapid-fire they're hard to follow. How can they think that fast with such big words? It's beyond me. :-/ And as long as I can stay awake while my lunch is just starting to kick in midway through class, I should be doing okay.
Graduation is only a semester away! I can't wait!! I only hope I pass all my classes and get my recital attendance done.
In other news, the Spring semester has started. The first week has officially ended and we are relatively intact. Joanna has three classes and I have two: Intro to Theatre and Music, Machines and Performance (the latter with Joanna). They seem really interesting.
The theatre class is gonna be kinda scary since it will bring me way out of my comfort zone. We'll be doing a lot of solo and group work. For example, on Wednesday, I have to do a one-minute performance in front of the whole class. Everyone has to do it, anything they want, so long as it will hold the audience's attention. We had one girl today act out being a monkey. Another person told a story about playing mini golf and the trials he had with that, and another person sang a song. There were a lot of monologues and some improv things (people didn't know what to do, so they just talked for a minute). I was thinking about playing an excerpt from a Horn concerto, but I don't know how stupid I'd look. First off, I haven't played in forever. Second, no one else has played anything. How entertaining is a bad rendition of a chopped up Mozart horn concerto? Maybe I'll get a laugh, even though that's not quite what I'm going for. . .
Our Humanities class seems pretty cool. There are a few grad students in there, though, so a bunch of the conversations they have go over my head. Not because I don't understand them, but because they are so rapid-fire they're hard to follow. How can they think that fast with such big words? It's beyond me. :-/ And as long as I can stay awake while my lunch is just starting to kick in midway through class, I should be doing okay.
Graduation is only a semester away! I can't wait!! I only hope I pass all my classes and get my recital attendance done.
posted by Nessarose @ 11:37 PM
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