Friday, June 09, 2006
I can't believe I've gone over a month without updating! So much has happend and now I can't think of it all...but I guess that saves you guys some details to read.
Sweet Charity, the drama 4 musical, was...interesting lol. I helped with the set (painting and a little construction) and costumes, and I was in the orchestra, which was exciting because I was one of few people who weren't in wind ensamble. The music was challenging but fun. The play itself was rather bizzare but funny and entertaining. The set was awesome. Ashley designed it and it was crazy spirals of black and white checkers with occasional colors and it was insane and amazing.
Wow I can hardly remember anything else I've done lately. It's just been finishing up school stuff...Oh we had our last band concert and I got to play bass clarinet in two of the songs, and one of them was a duet with another clarinet that played bass clarinet for that concert...because our normal bass clarinet player dropped out of school and Cara and I both decided we wanted to play hehe. So that was pretty cool. I got a brochure about band stuff at UNCW and I'm still considering my options for that...Wind Symphony looks pretty cool and it's not an audition only thing. I've been picking out stuff for my dorm, like sheets, and I'll get the rest of my stuff after orientation, which is June 18-20. Oh but I already got my laptop, and I love it. It's a new mac called the macbook, and it's only been out for a few weeks. It makes me smile.
I saw The Omen last night...if you go see it, look for Harry Potter references. Seriously. It's bizzare, but not as scary as I expected. It made me jump a few times just because things were sudden, but it's not actually scary.
So anyway the reason I really wanted to blog tonight was to talk about today. I went to Elizabeth's party for a while, which was much fun-all of her friends are so sweet! I got a lot of people to sign my yearbook, which was nice. Then I left early for an end of the year drama thing...I don't know if they actually call it a banquet or what, but there was a slide show, awards, and mock awards. I just came to see all the drama kids I love one more time, not expecting to really have people pay attention to me since I only did tech a little bit my freshman year and then not again until this semester. I thought they only did mock awards for thespians, but apparently they do them for everyone...and I found that out just before my award came up...and when Ashley started telling the story (as much as she could tell with parents in the room, which went something like this "There's a very sweet girl in our tech class, and we were sitting around one day when there was nothing to do, and we had a conversation I can't talk about because there are parents in the room...and this girl made a comment...so she receives this award), I cracked up because I knew exactly what was coming...thanks to a really odd conversation we had a week or two ago in tech...about some movie...where there was some kind of food-I think eclairs? something like that-and they were stuffed with...something eclairs shouldn't have been stuffed with...and then they were sold...and everyone said they were really good...and my immediate reaction was something along the lines of "They didn't notice? Wouldn't it be salty?" and that made everyone laugh...so tonight, I received the "'Wouldn't it be Salty?' Award." I half tripped going up the stairs to the stage to get it because I was laughing so hard. Mrs. Winter asked me about it later and all I said was "We had a sub that day so you're not responsible...and it's from a movie." All I could think about was that I was so glad my parents weren't there for that hahaha. But anyway...even something as random as that made me feel really special because I know I haven't done nearly as much work as most of the people there, and yet I still got a mock award. Then later, after the senior send off for the thespians, everyone started crying...and even though I've only been around most of those people for a semester, I started crying too...I realized how much I really love hanging out with all of them, in school or out. It's been so amazing...I cannot think of a bad day I had in tech. It was my favorite class I took in high school, and I told Mrs. Winter that through tears. And then, what was really really touching to me, was when I went up on stage with everyone else after the ceremony to say goodbye to people...all these people I hardly knew that were in Sweet Charity came up to me, gave me a hug, and told me how much they appreciated me helping out, I guess because they saw me come in their class a lot the last week or so before the show. They made me cry so much...and I've only been doing this a semester! I wasn't expecting to cry about that tonight...I figured the drama kids would because they've bonded so much over ther years and spent so much time in the auditorium...but I figured I'd be the comforter, not another person crying. I've known most of these kids well for one semester...and I think I cried more than I will at graduation.
Bah being told to go to bed lol...gotta love how I'm about to graduate and my parents still say "It's almost 11pm and you've got a busy day tomorrow; go to sleep." Gnight all!
Sweet Charity, the drama 4 musical, was...interesting lol. I helped with the set (painting and a little construction) and costumes, and I was in the orchestra, which was exciting because I was one of few people who weren't in wind ensamble. The music was challenging but fun. The play itself was rather bizzare but funny and entertaining. The set was awesome. Ashley designed it and it was crazy spirals of black and white checkers with occasional colors and it was insane and amazing.
Wow I can hardly remember anything else I've done lately. It's just been finishing up school stuff...Oh we had our last band concert and I got to play bass clarinet in two of the songs, and one of them was a duet with another clarinet that played bass clarinet for that concert...because our normal bass clarinet player dropped out of school and Cara and I both decided we wanted to play hehe. So that was pretty cool. I got a brochure about band stuff at UNCW and I'm still considering my options for that...Wind Symphony looks pretty cool and it's not an audition only thing. I've been picking out stuff for my dorm, like sheets, and I'll get the rest of my stuff after orientation, which is June 18-20. Oh but I already got my laptop, and I love it. It's a new mac called the macbook, and it's only been out for a few weeks. It makes me smile.
I saw The Omen last night...if you go see it, look for Harry Potter references. Seriously. It's bizzare, but not as scary as I expected. It made me jump a few times just because things were sudden, but it's not actually scary.
So anyway the reason I really wanted to blog tonight was to talk about today. I went to Elizabeth's party for a while, which was much fun-all of her friends are so sweet! I got a lot of people to sign my yearbook, which was nice. Then I left early for an end of the year drama thing...I don't know if they actually call it a banquet or what, but there was a slide show, awards, and mock awards. I just came to see all the drama kids I love one more time, not expecting to really have people pay attention to me since I only did tech a little bit my freshman year and then not again until this semester. I thought they only did mock awards for thespians, but apparently they do them for everyone...and I found that out just before my award came up...and when Ashley started telling the story (as much as she could tell with parents in the room, which went something like this "There's a very sweet girl in our tech class, and we were sitting around one day when there was nothing to do, and we had a conversation I can't talk about because there are parents in the room...and this girl made a comment...so she receives this award), I cracked up because I knew exactly what was coming...thanks to a really odd conversation we had a week or two ago in tech...about some movie...where there was some kind of food-I think eclairs? something like that-and they were stuffed with...something eclairs shouldn't have been stuffed with...and then they were sold...and everyone said they were really good...and my immediate reaction was something along the lines of "They didn't notice? Wouldn't it be salty?" and that made everyone laugh...so tonight, I received the "'Wouldn't it be Salty?' Award." I half tripped going up the stairs to the stage to get it because I was laughing so hard. Mrs. Winter asked me about it later and all I said was "We had a sub that day so you're not responsible...and it's from a movie." All I could think about was that I was so glad my parents weren't there for that hahaha. But anyway...even something as random as that made me feel really special because I know I haven't done nearly as much work as most of the people there, and yet I still got a mock award. Then later, after the senior send off for the thespians, everyone started crying...and even though I've only been around most of those people for a semester, I started crying too...I realized how much I really love hanging out with all of them, in school or out. It's been so amazing...I cannot think of a bad day I had in tech. It was my favorite class I took in high school, and I told Mrs. Winter that through tears. And then, what was really really touching to me, was when I went up on stage with everyone else after the ceremony to say goodbye to people...all these people I hardly knew that were in Sweet Charity came up to me, gave me a hug, and told me how much they appreciated me helping out, I guess because they saw me come in their class a lot the last week or so before the show. They made me cry so much...and I've only been doing this a semester! I wasn't expecting to cry about that tonight...I figured the drama kids would because they've bonded so much over ther years and spent so much time in the auditorium...but I figured I'd be the comforter, not another person crying. I've known most of these kids well for one semester...and I think I cried more than I will at graduation.
Bah being told to go to bed lol...gotta love how I'm about to graduate and my parents still say "It's almost 11pm and you've got a busy day tomorrow; go to sleep." Gnight all!
