today was a good day

     Today was the first day of Thursday Classes, and I missed you soooo much Emma, Hannah, and Abby! First hour I had bible stud which went well, and then second hour I had to teach Beatrix Potter to a bunch of little kids. It. Was. Hectic. The story was WAY to hard to read with all of them shouting at me, and then the TV that I was using for the movie went bad, and it kept cutting out. Then we tried to play a game. Apparently Duck Duck Goose and Simon Says are too hard for preschoolers. But I made a bunch of new “best friends” and it was fun.
     Third hour was even more chaotic than the first two. They have somehow managed to completely mangle third and fourth hour by making one class into two classes, but one of those two classes is only half a class, and the other class is a class and a half and its very confusing. But history and awana sparks was fun.
     Then we went down for acting class again. Oh. My. I love those people. Here are a few tidbits of the day.

A-*coughs*
E- walks up to the very front of the room from the very back with a large frown “WHO COUGHED?”
A- *small voice * “me”
E- *smiles * “here then, have a cough drop.

Everyone- *is talking about the assignment *

A-” I have had ice cream twice today.”
J- “it's really hard”
Beth (who's name is now really Beth but there are too many B people)- “I want ice cream”
B- “There's ice cream?”
J- “ very har... Ice cream? There's ice cream?”
B- “I don't know.”
J- “ice cream!”
B- “Ice cream!”
Beth- “no.”
B- “no”
J- “no?”
Beth- “yes.”
J- “oh.”
A- “shoot me.”

auditions

  

One of the plays I'm in  

 

  Auditions are scary. You have to get up in front of ton of people that you don't know that well, but you know that you're going to get to know them really well over the next few months well you're in the play together, and you really don't want one of their first impressions of you to be someone that isn't you at all because you're acting, but you also really want the casting director to think that you're someone else because you're acting. You forget half of your monologue because you're nervous, and you can feel your face going red. You get to the end of your monologue and freak out at the very quiet applause.
     Then you go through torture of the long wait for the cast list to come out. When it finally comes out, three hours after it was supposed to, you look at the list and feel a heavy weight hit your chest. Ranch Hand #3, how dumb. But you move on to the next plays cast list. This one's even worse. Girl #3. You try to make yourself feel better. You've read the play and you know that Ranch Hand #3 is a funny part, and you can do a lot with it. Then you go back to see who got the leads and you see what you missed.
     You're also the Tramp. That's an awesome part, and a lead! Like, the smallest lead in the play, but still a lead! You freak out. This is going to be awesome!

Well, that's what I did anyway.
    

auditions

     I had my first auditions today for the Christmas shows I'm going to be in this year with my drama class. Today I auditioned for Christmas on the Range, which sounds like a really dumb play but it isn't at all it's actually awesome, and tomorrow I'm going to audition for Papa Panovs Christmas, I hope I spelled his name right.
     I actually think that this audition went really well! I did clam up  couple times and forgot a bit of my monologue but no one noticed. The monologue, a but from The Importance of Being Earnest, was one of the directors favorite monologues so I picked well! I hope it gives me an edge on the auditions!   I'm up against 4 other girls for the part I want so I really hope I did well!
     I love this so much.

I knew again today that I am a super awkward person. Today in drama class then we split up into two groups and each had to film a one minute movie, aka retell a story in a minute. I was with one person that we knew, and not very well. We picked Cinderella and being blonde, I got to play Cinderella. I have never been in a retelling of Cinderella without being picked as Cinderella. Such were the proceedings.

B- “everyone get in your places!!!!!!”
A- “B, chill!”
B- “Alright, sorry. OK, now would everyone please...”
J- * walks in with a nosebleed*” I am sacrificing blood for this movie!”
B-” come on guys!”
I-”where are we supposed to go?”
A- “you go over there, and B I want you there, and Ruth Anna you're there...”
B- “ I've been fired as director!”
Everyone- “yep.”
A- “ Everyone get in your place!”
Everyone- “Yes of course, what ever you say, right away, etc
Everyone- *ten minutes later are finally ready *

Fast foreword a few scenes.

A- “now Ruth Anna, take off your shoe.”

Today I was wearing my Toms. Without socks. I had thought there was no chance I was going to have to take them off so I just sprinkled the inside of my shoes with baby powder so it would be really bad if somehow I had to take them off, but I hadn't worried much. Now I started to panic. I slipped my shoe off and hoped that everything would be alright and no one in the room would pass out. I think everything was alright. It was and we finished the play happily.

Sorry for not posting in almost a week! And sorry for the boring post this time!

SHUT UP AND DANCE

Last night I danced until 9:30 for two and a half straight hours. Honestly it wasn't as much dancing as it was flailing my arms randomly in the air and jumping up and down like I knew what I was doing. It. Was. Awesome. It was for Hannah D's birthday party and I'm so glad that that's what she decided to do. It was sooooo much fun! Thank you all so much and happy birthday again Hannah!

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Yesterday at my acting class she had us line up in order of height. Normally at those sorts of things I'm normally more at the taller side of the line. There were twelve people in the line. I stood near the middle of the line. One by one people came to stand next to me on the right, all of them taller then me.

I am fourth shortest.

I am one of the shortest people in the class.

This has never happened before!!!

This is so weird.

First day of school and acting class

It is a wonderful thing to see someone and have them give you a huge hug saying "I'm so glad you're here!". It's a wonderful thing to see a friend that you haven't seen in a long time and a friend that you were afraid you might never see again. I love the school that I'm going to this year for my acting class! It's a terrific place. They have climbing walls up the stairs and a coffee shop next to the office. A lot of my friends from Shakespeare are there too and it's great to see them again. I've really missed acting! Sure, I've only been away from it for a month, tops, but I love it so much!