So, since I am highly intelligent *snort snort*, I'm taking college course for dual credit. Meaning they are on my high school transcript and my college transcript.
Well that's great, you say!! A chance to shorten the time and money spent on college later in life so you can get to what you want to do faster and cheaper since the state pays for the current dual-credit classes.
But I don't have to pay tuition at my university anyway because my parents teach there. And I was stupid and chose two once-a-week evening courses and a saturday morning hybrid course with only 4 face to face meetings. So was it really so great?
Maybe. I mean, I do enjoy English Monday nights and I'm surviving economics somehow. I guess I should be grateful it's just 3 classes. But it wears me out completely. Just have to survive the semester.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Messiah time!
I mean the Handel masterpiece. Not the coming of Jesus or anything else that may be associated with the phrase "Messiah time".
Every other year, my school does a production of a selection of pieces from Messiah, including the aria's, Hallelujah chorus, and several orchestral movements. The performance combines all 4 choirs, all the orchestras and all the band. Combined we fill the stage and can't move until we get off the stage. It's an amazing thing, and it's really great!
But I sing soprano. Which means I'm in the rafters of the treble clef. And I'm sick with allergies. Yet I somehow managed not to die or cough my lungs up during the "Amen"s at the end!! I was pretty proud of myself.
We must have moved into an alternate universe last weekend. Only way to explain that.
Every other year, my school does a production of a selection of pieces from Messiah, including the aria's, Hallelujah chorus, and several orchestral movements. The performance combines all 4 choirs, all the orchestras and all the band. Combined we fill the stage and can't move until we get off the stage. It's an amazing thing, and it's really great!
But I sing soprano. Which means I'm in the rafters of the treble clef. And I'm sick with allergies. Yet I somehow managed not to die or cough my lungs up during the "Amen"s at the end!! I was pretty proud of myself.
We must have moved into an alternate universe last weekend. Only way to explain that.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Joseph......And Our Fail Attempts at Dancing
So I disappeared for a looooong time. Blame that on school and a faulty memory for passwords.
Anyway, my school produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat last year (that and an Honors Pre-Calculus class are the main reasons for my disappearance, along with forgetting my stupid password and that I had a blog at all). It was AWESOME! I lost a jean size, got closer to some folks I really wanted to get to know, dated a guy for four weeks, got my heart broken (by a different guy), and had an amazing time.
It was worth all the work. Even though at least half of us can"t dance very well, let alone sing anything composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and dance at the same time. Okay, maybe closer to a third. *dodges text books and stuff thrown by fellow cast members* Okay okay! It was more like a small handful of us that couldn't really dance but made the show anyway because we can act and sing and the director just happened to really like us and think we'd be good in the show. Anyway, we all did really well and had loads of fun, despite having our second night cancelled due to bad weather that let up right after they cancelled the show. We did all have trouble singing and dancing, mostly because we had to really really sing out but were all in various states of fitness, and varying levels of choir and voice study, so it was quite a trick to have enough air to do the running man and sing the opening number about Joseph getting his coat.
But with the end of Joseph also came the harrowing news that our much beloved director (who also teaches English classes during the school day and directs at a couple of other schools every so often and does theater out in the community as an actor) was quitting because of his health. the stress was getting to him and he wasn't keeping up with his actual classes as well as he needs to. So, we don't have a director right now. So no school plays until we find one. Except for Coffee House Theater, which is an International Baccalaureate (IB from here on out) Theater thing that we IB Theater kids can do for our Individual Projects if we wish.
So yeah. That was Sophomore year in a nutshell. Three paragraphs is pretty concise for me. Hehehe. I'm now a Junior and repeating the Honors Pre-Calculus class, taking dual credit college courses and trying my hardest to not sink under the crushing amount of housework, school work, social life requirements, and choir rehearsals. I'm in an Honors-weighted American Sign Language class, the 3rd and final level my school offers, and I'm still a drama geek. :3 (Emoticons don't look as cool on here >.<)
Will life always be this busy? Most likely, but hopefully not quite. Will it always be interesting? Heck yeah!! How could it be anything but?
Well, time to relax since my homework and this post are finished. Oh wait...I have chores. Maybe if I just act sick?
Always yours,
High School Drama Geek Audra.
Anyway, my school produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat last year (that and an Honors Pre-Calculus class are the main reasons for my disappearance, along with forgetting my stupid password and that I had a blog at all). It was AWESOME! I lost a jean size, got closer to some folks I really wanted to get to know, dated a guy for four weeks, got my heart broken (by a different guy), and had an amazing time.
It was worth all the work. Even though at least half of us can"t dance very well, let alone sing anything composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and dance at the same time. Okay, maybe closer to a third. *dodges text books and stuff thrown by fellow cast members* Okay okay! It was more like a small handful of us that couldn't really dance but made the show anyway because we can act and sing and the director just happened to really like us and think we'd be good in the show. Anyway, we all did really well and had loads of fun, despite having our second night cancelled due to bad weather that let up right after they cancelled the show. We did all have trouble singing and dancing, mostly because we had to really really sing out but were all in various states of fitness, and varying levels of choir and voice study, so it was quite a trick to have enough air to do the running man and sing the opening number about Joseph getting his coat.
But with the end of Joseph also came the harrowing news that our much beloved director (who also teaches English classes during the school day and directs at a couple of other schools every so often and does theater out in the community as an actor) was quitting because of his health. the stress was getting to him and he wasn't keeping up with his actual classes as well as he needs to. So, we don't have a director right now. So no school plays until we find one. Except for Coffee House Theater, which is an International Baccalaureate (IB from here on out) Theater thing that we IB Theater kids can do for our Individual Projects if we wish.
So yeah. That was Sophomore year in a nutshell. Three paragraphs is pretty concise for me. Hehehe. I'm now a Junior and repeating the Honors Pre-Calculus class, taking dual credit college courses and trying my hardest to not sink under the crushing amount of housework, school work, social life requirements, and choir rehearsals. I'm in an Honors-weighted American Sign Language class, the 3rd and final level my school offers, and I'm still a drama geek. :3 (Emoticons don't look as cool on here >.<)
Will life always be this busy? Most likely, but hopefully not quite. Will it always be interesting? Heck yeah!! How could it be anything but?
Well, time to relax since my homework and this post are finished. Oh wait...I have chores. Maybe if I just act sick?
Always yours,
High School Drama Geek Audra.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
End of the Freshman year
So yeah..... I decided to spill my guts to you people as high school goes on. I must be going crazy. To be fair, I'm a rather dorky person and I do theater and choir to top it all off so I've never been entirely sane.
But theater and performing.... they are the greatest rush, the greatest joy I've ever known. Add to that all the drama I seem to attract these days and you have a relatively crazy life. But it is my life and I love it despite all the complaining I do.
Today was the last day of my school year, meaning I am now locked in the prison cell called solitary confinement for a few days. But there will hopefully be plenty of friends over the entire summer and maybe even some romance.... ;)
I'm technically a sophomore now that I'm out of school but I don't feel any different and I doubt I will any time soon. But next year is full of hope for me. Our theater department is doing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and I can't wait for auditions. I'm also hoping I won't get injured again (never take the theater good luck term of break a leg literally -- trust me!) so that I can actually participate in the shows and Relay for :Life when it rolls around again next year.
This summer should be quiet. Some music writing with friends, going to the pool, painting the new house, reading every book I can get my grubby little hands on, and shopping with babysitting money. I'm most looking forward to the music writing because I would really like to be a musician but that is a tough career path to follow -- it takes talent, blood sweat and tears, and the right connections. I looks easy but is actually a ton of work and responsibility. And you are pressured to look and act a certain way. Well, I don't look like most of today's stars. And I act better than some I could mention. But I want to know if I have what it takes so I'm going to put myself out there and if maybe I can get myself recognized and maybe even famous.
Well, it's like a quarter after 2 in the morning and I have physical therapy and friends and cleaning tomorrow. I will try to post at least once a week on Fridays (if there's ever anyone following this...) so keep an eye out!!! I promise things will get more exciting when school starts back in August, perhaps sooner.
"On that day, that not so distant day, when you are far away and free, if you ever find a moment, spare a thought for me." ~ Think of me, The Phantom of the Opera.
Spare me a thought every so often.
Your ever so sincere high school drama geek,
Audra.
But theater and performing.... they are the greatest rush, the greatest joy I've ever known. Add to that all the drama I seem to attract these days and you have a relatively crazy life. But it is my life and I love it despite all the complaining I do.
Today was the last day of my school year, meaning I am now locked in the prison cell called solitary confinement for a few days. But there will hopefully be plenty of friends over the entire summer and maybe even some romance.... ;)
I'm technically a sophomore now that I'm out of school but I don't feel any different and I doubt I will any time soon. But next year is full of hope for me. Our theater department is doing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and I can't wait for auditions. I'm also hoping I won't get injured again (never take the theater good luck term of break a leg literally -- trust me!) so that I can actually participate in the shows and Relay for :Life when it rolls around again next year.
This summer should be quiet. Some music writing with friends, going to the pool, painting the new house, reading every book I can get my grubby little hands on, and shopping with babysitting money. I'm most looking forward to the music writing because I would really like to be a musician but that is a tough career path to follow -- it takes talent, blood sweat and tears, and the right connections. I looks easy but is actually a ton of work and responsibility. And you are pressured to look and act a certain way. Well, I don't look like most of today's stars. And I act better than some I could mention. But I want to know if I have what it takes so I'm going to put myself out there and if maybe I can get myself recognized and maybe even famous.
Well, it's like a quarter after 2 in the morning and I have physical therapy and friends and cleaning tomorrow. I will try to post at least once a week on Fridays (if there's ever anyone following this...) so keep an eye out!!! I promise things will get more exciting when school starts back in August, perhaps sooner.
"On that day, that not so distant day, when you are far away and free, if you ever find a moment, spare a thought for me." ~ Think of me, The Phantom of the Opera.
Spare me a thought every so often.
Your ever so sincere high school drama geek,
Audra.
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