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.

No more Ella the Cat...

The title of this post sounds very depressing. It is because, while we no longer have Ella the cat, we have Orlando the cat. Yes, my cat is a boy, and we thought it was a girl... Funny how that goes sometimes.... :) The poor kitty's first name came from Cinderella, since "she" was all black like cinders, and I liked the name Ella. Orlando comes from a Shakespeare play I was in, called As You Like It. The first time I read the play, it was for class, and I really liked the name Orlando right off. After reading the play, you also can see that the character Orlando is a really good (and extremely funny) person. After I was in the play, I decided that someday I would own a black cat and name him Orlando. Well, I got my wish! I think the name fits my cat well, maybe someday he will respond to it, he never come when I called him Ella!

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!

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!

Queen Me

I'm a Queen!
A Shakespeare Queen to be exact. Once a week, I have a home-school school that I go to. It is normal school hours, and I get home work every week. One of the classes is a Shakespeare class, where we read, study, and learn about Shakespeare's plays. One thing that is optional, is to read, watch or listen to 17 unabridged plays by Shakespeare. I finished all 17 last week! After we read, watch or listen to 17 plays we have a "coronation" and become come a King or Queen. In February, we have a Shakespeare Fair, where we have a performance from the older home school acting class. We also have a modernised Shakespearean diner, and all of the Kings and Queens sit at a special table and get served by the two Shakespeare teachers and all the kids who did not do 17 plays. I think that this year, every one of our 20 Shakespeare class students finished 17 plays, or will have finished them by the Fair which is this Saturday. I'm exited for it! I'll post pictures wen I get them.

Here is the list of all the plays I have watched, read or listened to from September 2009 to February this year:

1. A Midsummer Nights Dream- Watched(BBC)
2. A Midsummer Nights Dream- Read
3. The Taming of the Shrew- Watched(BBC)
4. The Taming of the Shrew- Read
5. The Tempest- Watched(BBC)
6. As You Like It- Watched(BBC)
7. The Merchant of Venice- Read
8. As You Like It- Listened
9. Romeo and Juliet-Read
10. Romeo and Juliet-Listened
11. Romeo and Juliet-Watched(BBC)
12. A Midsummer Nights Dream-Listened
13. Macbeth-Read
14. Macbeth-Listened
15. As You Like It-Read
16. Twelfth Night-Read
17. Twelfth Night-Listened

My Shakespeare Class and Play

Last week, we did the Shakespeare play that I was in. It was SO FUN! I can't wait to take another Shakespeare class next year. This year we only had 7 kids in my class total, but we did it! The play we did was the Merchant of Venice which is a really funny play. I played the part of Nerissa, Portia's lady in waiting. I had alot of lines, but I memorized all of them.

Here is a picture from last February. When almost all of the kids in my Shakespeare class were able to go on a field trip to the Old Globe theater, in Balboa Park. It was really fun and I learned alot. it was especially fun because my friend Emily (the same Emily as the one in the Easter picture) was able to come also while her family visited us from Washington state.

Here is a picture of my friend Emily and I before the field trip started.


This picture is of Portia (her real name is Elisabeth) and I after the play. I liked wearing the costumes and I really liked my dress, and I thought that every one else's costumes looked nice to, especially Portia's outfits.


Here is the scene with the casket test. It was very funny and Bassanio did a really good job at memorizing all his lines. He had alot!


And here is the last picture of the entire cast. It was tons of fun and I LOVE acting, even though I get so nervous before the play starts. Well it was a fun year and I can't wait to do it again next year!