The wear and tear of tech week...

The first day of tech week, I looked very happy and bright and excited! (because I was) Also, this was at the beginning of rehearsal, so I wasn't worn out yet. I had not yet learned how difficult it is when you have a lead role....

The third day of tech week (I didn't get a picture of the second) I am looking rather tired, and you can see the remains of makeup on my face.

Forth day... We were experimenting with my hair, and it wasn't working.....

After the first performance!!!! YAY!!! I look tired!!! As you can see, tech week can take a lot out of you, but it is still really really fun!

The Happenings of Late....

Since I haven’t posted many pictures lately, I thought I would post some.... wait I have put a lot of pictures up lately..... but that sounds better than "since I have been posting so many pictures, I thought I would post some more".....so.... never mind, I wanted to put some pictures up to show you my exciting life!!! Hahaha. :)


I started off the year by going to Knott's Berry Farm in January. I went for a class trip, and it was really fun! There were no good pictures of me, (I took most of them) but there was this funny one of my friend Brandon I thought I would post.


Here is one of the roller coasters, call Ghost Rider. It was very bumpy....

I took this picture after youth temple baptisms, and I think it looks neat. It turned out pretty good considering it was taken with a cell phone camera!


In February I got sick and I had to go to the hospital and it was a pain :P I'm glad I'm better now! Oh, and one arm band says "Fall Risk" cause I fainted, but that's a long story.... The other one says "allergies" because I'm allergic to some medicines.

Here is what took up most of my life..... Rehearsals!!! Here is one of the first dress rehearsals, and that is Silvia and I. Fun fun fun!


On the first day of tech week, it hailed really hard, and it looked like snow. Here is Even holdinging a "snowball"

A close up on the hail. It look really cool!


I think this was before a dress rehearsal, or our first performance. We were getting all fancied up. :)

After the play was over and there were no more performances, we went to DISNEYLAND!!! It was really fun! We have year passes, and some of our really good friends also have year passes, so we all went together. This is our picture from Space Mountain. I'm the one in the blue shirt screaming my head off, my friend Kraig is behind me making crazy faces, and my friend Lulu is next to me looking very calm. (Lulu is my sister's best friend, and loves loves loves roller coasters, and I that’s funny because my sister hates hates hates roller coasters.) Anyway, Disneyland was really fun and we went for 13 hours and didn't get home till after midnight. It was awesome. 

Well, that's been my life lately, pretty good, but very busy! Hope you've had a good year so far!

The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Pictures

The End.

Even if you probably didn't understand what we were doing in any of these pictures, hopfuly you enjoyed the pretty costumes and fun facial expressions. I will have more pictures after our next few preformances, and I hope they will be good too. Oh yeah, and in the first few pictures, I am the girl in the green shiny dress, and in the other ones, I am the "boy" wearing the green pants and yellow vest and hat. I loved my costumes!!!

THANK YOU SISTER HARTZELL AND SISTER DAVIES!!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!

Julia

This will be a quick post, hopefully I can blog more soon. Maybe. Right now the thing that is taking up most of my life, is a play I am in. The play is The Two Gentlemen of Verona. I am so excited! Opening night is this Friday, and I am starting to get nervous... It is a good play (the director did have to edit it a bit, though) and I think the performance will be really good. I was really happy when the mentors chose this play, mainly for two reasons. 1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona was the first play I ever saw professionally done in Shakespearean costume. We saw it at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and I loved it! My favorite character was a girl named Julia. I loved her character, I loved how the actor portrayed her, and I loved her costume. Actually, I almost decided to be Julia for Halloween that fall, but for some reason I wasn't. Anyway, I thought Julia was awesome. HERE is a link to see pictures from the same performance I saw. Isn't her costume awesome! I loved the costume when she was dressed up as a boy even more than I loved her pretty dresses. I don't know why, but I just remember loving it. Alright, so that is the first reason I was happy this play was chosen. Second reason is because 2 years ago (the school year after I had seen The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the first time) our local home school-school's acting class for older kids (called "Classical Acting") put on-- you guessed it, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Once again, I loved the play, and I loved seeing a lot of older friends in it. My friend Heather played Julia, and she did a really good job. It was really neat to see it preformed non-professionally (but still really well) and seeing that performance made me super excited for when I would get to be in Classical Acting and put on an awesome play like that. Now, two years later, the chosen play for Classical Acting is The Two Gentlemen of Verona. When they announced the play I was really, really, really, excited, and I really, really, really, wanted to have the part of Julia. Auditions came, and I read a scene with me as Julia. I didn't think I did that well, but I was still hoping there was a chance to play Julia. Well, a few days later, an email was sent out with the cast list, and... I was Julia!!!! I was so happy and excited, I started to cry! Now opening night is in a few days, and I am soooooooo excited! This play is the first play I've been in that I have had a very big part, and it has been a challenge, but a lot of fun! I have a lot of lines, but I have (almost) all of them down. I get the words mixed up on a few of them, but other than that I know them! I also get to wear a really, really, really pretty costume :) I love pretty dresses. Also, my costume for when I dress up as a boy is really fun. I am really excited for the play, and I am happy to have such amazing amazing amazing mentors, Sister H. and Sister D. that will nicely tell me that I need to memorize my lines and help me be a better actor. Thank you!

Here is a synopsis I wrote for The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in case the above post confused you...

Julia is in love with a guy named Proteus. When her lover leaves to work for a duke far away, she disguises herself as a boy to follow him. She finds out once she gets there that he has fallen in love with another women named Silvia, who is already in love with Protues's best friend named Valentine. Valentine and Silvia want to get married, but then Proteus decides he now doesn’t care about Julia and is in love with Silvia, he has Valentine banished. Throughout all this, Julia continues to keep her identity secret. She works for Proteus, and has to deliver his love letters to Silvia for him, but Silvia hates Proteus. In the end Julia's identity is revealed, and Proteus falls in love with her again. Proteus and Julia get married on the same day as Valentine and Silvia, and they all live happily ever after. Other than the fact that Julia is really dumb and still marries Proteus after he cheats on her, I really like her. She isn’t really the best role model, but she has so far been really fun to play.

Books Read in 2010

Looking back on 2010, I guess I read a lot more then I though I did! I read a lot of books I liked, and some I did not really like, and a few I hated. But mostly, I liked almost every book I read! I read 41 books in 2010, and for all but 6 of them, it was my first time ever reading them.

For School:

Across Five Aprils

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Amazing Grace of Freedom

Uncle Toms Cabin (I listened to it, not read it though)

Romeo and Juliet

As You Like It

Macbeth

A book on Abraham Lincoln

Tartuffe

Oedipus Rex

King Lear

A Man For All Seasons

The Phantom Tollbooth

String, Straightedge, and Shadow

Carry On Mister Bowditch


For Book Clubs:

The Chosen

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

The Swiss Family Robinson


Series of Books:

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

Artemis Fowl Opal Deception

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows1

The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse

Percy Jackson and the Battle in the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

The Hunger Games

Catching Fire

Mockingjay


Other Books I read for Fun:

Fablehaven 5

Peter and the Starcatchers

Under the Lilacs

D'aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

The Horse and his Boy


Here is my favorite book that I read this year for each category:

Sci-fi: Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

Fantasy: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Adventure: The Swiss Family Robinson

Fiction: The Chosen

Non-fiction: I didn't read any that I liked...

For School: Macbeth

Re-read: The Horse and His Boy

Yay for books! :)

Anne of Green Gables

Today I promised my awesome friend Marianne I would blog, so I am! Last month, I was in a play called Anne of Green Gables. It was the second play I have had a part in with more then a few speaking lines (I had abt. 30 lines for this play) and it was the FIRST play I have ever been in that I had a real solo. In Oliver Twist and Pirates of Penzance I had small singing solos, but in this play I had to sing two pages of song all by my self! I was soooooooo nervous before hand, but I think I did a pretty good job! This year for the play, we did performances a little differently for two reasons. 1, we had three shows, a Thursday and Friday night show, and a Saturday morning show. We also had understudy parts that we could play on Saturday if we wanted to. My main part was Mrs. Allan the preachers wife, and my understudy part was Aunt Josephine Berry, who is Diana's aunt. My sister got a pretty big part as the little girl Josie Pie, and her understudy part was the main role Anne, but she decided she didn't want to play that part. The play turned out really really awesome, and I was really happy to participate in it this year. My brothers were stage crew and they also did a great job at that. Way to go everyone!!!

Cast picture

Thursday Night show as Mrs. Allan

On stage as Aunt Josephine

Aunt Josephine wearing a crazy dress!

Mrs. Rachel Lynde and Aunt Josephine

As You Like it

You may or may not recognize that as a Shakespeare play, but it is and I am going to be in it! That is the play we are doing for my local home-school school's Shakespeare class. (Did that make sense?:)) I think it will be really fun, and I am so excited! The problem with our class is that we only have three boys in it and twelve+ girls. So, we had to change almost all of the boy roles to girl roles. The only parts that are staying boys are the the three guys that get married. We are also doing the play as an Island/ship theme, so it will be really fun! If you have read or seen As You Like It, you might remember that there are the two dukes that don't get along, and that one was banished. Well, I am playing the banished duke, named Duke Senior. Except since we are doing an island/ship theme and we changed it to a girl, I am Captain Sonia. I am so excited! I was so nervous waiting to find out who I am playing, I probably checked my email every twenty minutes on Monday afternoon when we were supposed to (and did) find out who we were playing. I am also happy because I have ton of friends in the class, so I will get to see them a lot! Well I am really excited, and rehearsals start next week so I'll be busy, but having fun!

BTW: I think this will be my first post for that school blogging I said I was going to do a while ago. Finally!

What I did today

My mom is going to have a "Home School blog carnival", so I thought I would participate after I saw my friend Marianne's post.

-Woke up at 5:35am
-Lay in bed for 10 extra minutes
-got dressed under my blanket because I was freezing
-Got ready for seminary
-Woke my dad up so he could take me.
-Had fun watching the temperature drop down to 36 degrees while driving in my dads car
-Went to seminary
-Said goodbye to my dad before he went to work
-Lay down on my parents bed (under the blanket:) because I was still cold
-had 2 home-made blue berry muffins while checking my email and my friends blog
-Did my hair in about 7 different ways before I decided on one
-Practiced piano for 35 minutes
-Looked at and edited my Shakespeare and my Civil war class papers that I wrote (mostly) yesterday
-Put tonight's dinner in the crock pot
-Made a fried egg and ate it
-Emailed Marianne for help on a paper
-Played a game with my sister in exchange for me to be able to wear her hairbands any time I want without asking in the week.
-Ate most of a small can of corn
-Did more school work
-Ate some Carl's Junior that my mom got on the way home from somewhere
-Wrote all of the above on my laptop at the kitchen table while eating Carl's Junior
-Played fetch with my dog Molly (um, in the kitchen actually...)
-Did more schoolwork
-Did math
-Researched for my talk on Sunday
-Read another great talk that I'll put up a link to sometime
-Re-discovered how nice it is to do schoolwork while laying on the couch with your dog as a foot/leg warmer (hey, she is the one that chose to lay on me:)
-Emailed Marianne back and forth about school a few more times
-Discovered how painful it is to completely change the side of your head your part is on for the first time in forever, braid it very tightly, then undo the braid 7 hours later
-Wrote this
-Did some laundry
-Made Pasta and a salad
-Ate a yummy dinner that was Chicken with egg noodles and a salad
-Killed a spider
-Took a shower
-Read a little bit from Little Pilgrims Progress
-Tried to publish this post, then the Internet died so I couldn't
-Fell asleep on the couch for an hour, the woke up at 11
-Put the rest of dinner away
-Put the clothes in the dryer
-Went to bed!

It was busy but fun day!

Civil War Poem

I had to right a poem for a Civil war class I am taking, so I thought I'd post it. Here it is!

Did the Die in Vain?
By Me

Did they die in vain,
To keep the free from the pain,
Of permanent separation?

Fighting across the nation,
Lincoln’s emancipation,
Two countries fighting each other

Brother against brother,
Weeping tearful mother,
The Battle of Bull Run

The North won,
The South was out run,
Did God lend a hand?

Together we stand,
One nation, one land,
In God we must trust

Shakespeare Fair-again!

Here are the pictures from the Shakespeare Fair I mentioned in in a post a couple weeks ago.

The royal goblets on the royal table.

Getting ready to have two of the students coronations. From the left: My teacher Sister H, Rachel (who is about to become Queen), me, Emma, and Dante (who is about to become King)

Rachel and me.

Thank you Marianne for letting me use some of her pictures!