I got to Flat Rock today, and I can already tell that I am really going to like it here.
I have two suit mates.... I guess that's what you would call them, it a strange dorm set up but I like it. Anyways their names are Tressa and Cindy. They are the Paint and Costume interns respectively. There are two other interns who are male and that it. There are only 5 of us in one building. The guys live down stairs.
Everyone here seems really friendly and laid back. Not that everyone wasn't at Interlochen but this place just has a differnt feel to it.
I still have no clue as to what I am really doing here. Or how the hell I ended up at and education intern but such is life. The kids don't actually get here till next week so for now I guess its just a prep week. I guess I'll find out at 10 am tomorrow morning when I report to work.
I turn 21 on Wednesday. Normally this would be a very exciting thing. But seeing as I am hours away from just about everyone that I would like to spend this day with it kinda blows. But my aunt is going to take me out to dinner and I am hanging out with people here tomorrow so maybe I'll find some people to go out with on my birthday. AJ says that he will try his best to come up here and I really hope he can. Josh is also going to try and make a visit.
This is looking like a promising summer. I guess we will see.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
70 Days
I leave in the morning to head for North Carolina. My mom and I will be spending tomorrow with my family that lives there which is always an interesting but fun experience. Then Sunday at 4 I will be at Flat Rock for my orientation.
I will be 286 miles away from home this summer. Not nearly as far as last, but still far. I want to be with my friends right now, to give them a hug and make them feel better. But I know that this job was the right decision for me. The school year is always so stressful that I need to get away from it all.
All in all I will be gone for 70 days. Which is a good two weeks longer than last year, eek. But the fresh start will be worth it.
I don't know how long it will be until I have the internet up there. Could be as soon as Sunday, or it could be a few weeks. So obviously my updates will be few and far between. I will miss everyone so much.
Just remember cell phones work both ways, and hearing a voice from home always makes my day.
I will be 286 miles away from home this summer. Not nearly as far as last, but still far. I want to be with my friends right now, to give them a hug and make them feel better. But I know that this job was the right decision for me. The school year is always so stressful that I need to get away from it all.
All in all I will be gone for 70 days. Which is a good two weeks longer than last year, eek. But the fresh start will be worth it.
I don't know how long it will be until I have the internet up there. Could be as soon as Sunday, or it could be a few weeks. So obviously my updates will be few and far between. I will miss everyone so much.
Just remember cell phones work both ways, and hearing a voice from home always makes my day.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Thinking back on it all.
This semester has been one of the most stressful semesters since I have been in college. But it has also been one of the best semesters. just a quick overview.
I did Reefer Madness, got a tattoo,survived thespian conference, had a snow day, got to have a stress free spring break, was in a contemporary ballet, did well in my last semester of acting, was in Once On This Island, got cast in two shows for the fall, lived through a horrible tornado ripping through downtown, made the APO Slide show, was in half of the dances for Dance Extravganza, Lost one of the most amazing people I have ever been blessed to know, I have gained friendships, struggled with others, moved into a new apartment and meet an amazing new guy.
Through all of the stress and bad things a lot of good has come out of this semester. And now I get to start a new chapter, a new internship, a new start.
I did Reefer Madness, got a tattoo,survived thespian conference, had a snow day, got to have a stress free spring break, was in a contemporary ballet, did well in my last semester of acting, was in Once On This Island, got cast in two shows for the fall, lived through a horrible tornado ripping through downtown, made the APO Slide show, was in half of the dances for Dance Extravganza, Lost one of the most amazing people I have ever been blessed to know, I have gained friendships, struggled with others, moved into a new apartment and meet an amazing new guy.
Through all of the stress and bad things a lot of good has come out of this semester. And now I get to start a new chapter, a new internship, a new start.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
We Are Close
Yesterday was one of those perfect days. Which is weird if you think about it.
It didn't start out as anything special. 9 am and a 10 am math class following has never spelled out perfection for me. Even my voice for the stage class wasn't anything special. I was told that I was doing much better on my Shakespeare Monologue so that's a good thing. Then my mom get here, and this is where the perfect part of the day started.
We went to Rea's memorial. He is one of the only people I know that could almost fill up the springer opera house with people just there to remember him. It was hard to watch all of those pictures go by of him, but at the same time I could have sat and watched it all day. Every word the speakers said about him was so very true and it was great to remember all those things about Rea. The first speaker shared a story about the first time that he meet Rea and when the man couldn't pronounce his name Rea gave him an easy way to remember it. We are close. Always remember we are close. I can't think of a more perfect was to remember him. They where making this weaved tapestry for him. It was so colorful and cheerful.More on why this is relevant in a moment. Through all the tears there was an abundance of love.
I left the memorial and had to head straight to the theatre for call. After some minor stressing out over the fact that our costumes had not been fixed from the night before we where just about ready to go on. The cast meet with Dur out in the hallway. He told us how proud he was of us and how excited he was for the show and that we where going to do great. Then we talked about how we where doing this show for Rea. Caroline told this great story about how she was driving down the road listening to why we tell the story and right as it got to the line "you are why" she passed the Springer. This show was all for him and we know that. And before we went on, if we even got a little nervous we just told ourselves that Rea was out there watching us and we knew everything was going to be ok.
It was one of the best runs of the show that we have ever had, and the audience loved it. During the last song,"we tell the story" we got started singing the "life is why, pain is why,ect." And I almost lost it. The last line is " Our live become the stories that we weave". I locked eyes withe India. She realized it too. It was perfect, and it made a lot of audience members cry. The last pose went and the lights started to go down, before we where even in complete black out Dur was on his feet cheering us on and clapping. He rushed back stages balling hugging us all and telling us that he loved his. We knew Rea was proud. We where proud. It had been a long ride, but we had done our best.
I had this dream last night. Rea was in it. He gave me this giant hug. Told me he loved me. He wouldn't let go. I was so happy. When I woke up this morning I wasn't sad. It was like I got to say a final goodbye. I got my goodbye that I didn't get in real life.
Today will be a wonderful day because I have made a positive change in my life. I've made a choice to be all I can, because I know things will work out right if I have faith. I can do anything if I try. I know that I can, I know that I will. Today!
It didn't start out as anything special. 9 am and a 10 am math class following has never spelled out perfection for me. Even my voice for the stage class wasn't anything special. I was told that I was doing much better on my Shakespeare Monologue so that's a good thing. Then my mom get here, and this is where the perfect part of the day started.
We went to Rea's memorial. He is one of the only people I know that could almost fill up the springer opera house with people just there to remember him. It was hard to watch all of those pictures go by of him, but at the same time I could have sat and watched it all day. Every word the speakers said about him was so very true and it was great to remember all those things about Rea. The first speaker shared a story about the first time that he meet Rea and when the man couldn't pronounce his name Rea gave him an easy way to remember it. We are close. Always remember we are close. I can't think of a more perfect was to remember him. They where making this weaved tapestry for him. It was so colorful and cheerful.More on why this is relevant in a moment. Through all the tears there was an abundance of love.
I left the memorial and had to head straight to the theatre for call. After some minor stressing out over the fact that our costumes had not been fixed from the night before we where just about ready to go on. The cast meet with Dur out in the hallway. He told us how proud he was of us and how excited he was for the show and that we where going to do great. Then we talked about how we where doing this show for Rea. Caroline told this great story about how she was driving down the road listening to why we tell the story and right as it got to the line "you are why" she passed the Springer. This show was all for him and we know that. And before we went on, if we even got a little nervous we just told ourselves that Rea was out there watching us and we knew everything was going to be ok.
It was one of the best runs of the show that we have ever had, and the audience loved it. During the last song,"we tell the story" we got started singing the "life is why, pain is why,ect." And I almost lost it. The last line is " Our live become the stories that we weave". I locked eyes withe India. She realized it too. It was perfect, and it made a lot of audience members cry. The last pose went and the lights started to go down, before we where even in complete black out Dur was on his feet cheering us on and clapping. He rushed back stages balling hugging us all and telling us that he loved his. We knew Rea was proud. We where proud. It had been a long ride, but we had done our best.
I had this dream last night. Rea was in it. He gave me this giant hug. Told me he loved me. He wouldn't let go. I was so happy. When I woke up this morning I wasn't sad. It was like I got to say a final goodbye. I got my goodbye that I didn't get in real life.
Today will be a wonderful day because I have made a positive change in my life. I've made a choice to be all I can, because I know things will work out right if I have faith. I can do anything if I try. I know that I can, I know that I will. Today!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Seek a Life Useful
I am not sure if I can even put into words how I feel right now.
Rearcous is gone.
He was my brother, my idol, and most of all my friend. He loved without limits.And he meant every word he said.
I will always charish my memories with him. From catching his lasso during Midsummer, to him giving me that big hug the day I was inducted into APO. He was always there to tell me I was beautiful. He always made a bad day so much better. One of my favorite memories is when he walked in on me and mike in same and nick's kitchen last year. All he said was, OO I like this. I was embarrassed but at the same time it just made me laugh. He taught me how to properly yell ALPHA PSI!
I have cried so much over the past two days. Even though I know that he is looking down on us and saying "baby stop your crying". I just miss him so much.
One thing Dureya said really helped me out. " when good people die the sky clears us so they can get into heaven. Then it rains when they get in". Yesterday it was a beautiful day, it was suppose to be cloudy but it wasn't then around 5 it started to rain.
I know that he is up there watching over us and smiling. That he will always be with us.
So Rea,
I love you, more then words can say. I will miss you even more than that. Thank you for all that you taught me. Thank you for making me feel beautiful and for teaching em to live everyday to its fullest. Because as you always said, we only have today.
To all of my friends. I love you all so very much. Lets live our lives to the fullest. And love like Rea loved.
I can't not say that I have had to go through this a lot but I have a few times. And every time I have the over whelming erg to tell the people that I love, that I love them and say things to people that I need to say. This time was no differnt. I wanted to talk to Mike, I debated all day if I should call him and see how he was. Its because of Mike that I was able to become as close as I did with Rea and I knew how close they where. I couldn't however bring myself to call him. I knew I had a million things I wanted to say to him, but I couldn't figure out where to begin. When he showed up to our mass gathering in 120 last night I went up to him and gave him a hug, I didn't say anything I just gave him a hug. It broke my heart. I have only ever seen him cry once and I was afraid it was going to happen again. Before I left I went up to give him one last hug. He didn't let go. When we did break apart he grabbed both of my hands and squeezed them. That moment said more than any words could have. He knows I care about him, and I know he cares about me, and if I can take nothing else away from what we had together then I will be happy with that. I thank Rea so much for that. I am not sure why death brings people together. No I take that back I do know why, I kind of wish it didn't though.
Rest in Peace dear friend.
Rearcous is gone.
He was my brother, my idol, and most of all my friend. He loved without limits.And he meant every word he said.
I will always charish my memories with him. From catching his lasso during Midsummer, to him giving me that big hug the day I was inducted into APO. He was always there to tell me I was beautiful. He always made a bad day so much better. One of my favorite memories is when he walked in on me and mike in same and nick's kitchen last year. All he said was, OO I like this. I was embarrassed but at the same time it just made me laugh. He taught me how to properly yell ALPHA PSI!
I have cried so much over the past two days. Even though I know that he is looking down on us and saying "baby stop your crying". I just miss him so much.
One thing Dureya said really helped me out. " when good people die the sky clears us so they can get into heaven. Then it rains when they get in". Yesterday it was a beautiful day, it was suppose to be cloudy but it wasn't then around 5 it started to rain.
I know that he is up there watching over us and smiling. That he will always be with us.
So Rea,
I love you, more then words can say. I will miss you even more than that. Thank you for all that you taught me. Thank you for making me feel beautiful and for teaching em to live everyday to its fullest. Because as you always said, we only have today.
To all of my friends. I love you all so very much. Lets live our lives to the fullest. And love like Rea loved.
I can't not say that I have had to go through this a lot but I have a few times. And every time I have the over whelming erg to tell the people that I love, that I love them and say things to people that I need to say. This time was no differnt. I wanted to talk to Mike, I debated all day if I should call him and see how he was. Its because of Mike that I was able to become as close as I did with Rea and I knew how close they where. I couldn't however bring myself to call him. I knew I had a million things I wanted to say to him, but I couldn't figure out where to begin. When he showed up to our mass gathering in 120 last night I went up to him and gave him a hug, I didn't say anything I just gave him a hug. It broke my heart. I have only ever seen him cry once and I was afraid it was going to happen again. Before I left I went up to give him one last hug. He didn't let go. When we did break apart he grabbed both of my hands and squeezed them. That moment said more than any words could have. He knows I care about him, and I know he cares about me, and if I can take nothing else away from what we had together then I will be happy with that. I thank Rea so much for that. I am not sure why death brings people together. No I take that back I do know why, I kind of wish it didn't though.
Rest in Peace dear friend.
Monday, February 2, 2009
All I can do is keep breathing
Like I said in my last blog, deciding to be over all of this shit has really help things for me. I was so sick of feeling numb and now I don't. It is a great feeling.
Everyone is still getting sick and I'm still trying not to catch it.
I'm finally remembering what it means to be truly happy. Life isn't always great but I have great friends and a great life.
Everything else will come in due time.
Everyone is still getting sick and I'm still trying not to catch it.
I'm finally remembering what it means to be truly happy. Life isn't always great but I have great friends and a great life.
Everything else will come in due time.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
All those pieces
Things seem to be falling into place right now.
I got the internship at Flat Rock Playhouse :) I know that there is some reason that I wasn't meant to go back to Interlochen this summer. Lets face it I was miserable, and even though I will miss my friends from there so very much I know that there is something exciting waiting for me in North Carolina.
The show closes tonight and I will be sad to see it end. But at the same time I am very ready for it to be over. I think I have a minute to breath for once which will be a nice change.
Other than that, nothing is really new or exciting. Things are going good right now. Decided to be over all this shit has really helped me out.
I got the internship at Flat Rock Playhouse :) I know that there is some reason that I wasn't meant to go back to Interlochen this summer. Lets face it I was miserable, and even though I will miss my friends from there so very much I know that there is something exciting waiting for me in North Carolina.
The show closes tonight and I will be sad to see it end. But at the same time I am very ready for it to be over. I think I have a minute to breath for once which will be a nice change.
Other than that, nothing is really new or exciting. Things are going good right now. Decided to be over all this shit has really helped me out.
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