It's Showtime!

Well, I'm kinda new to this whole blog thing... Neal has a blog and inspired me to get one for myself too. Nothing too exciting going on in my life right now, except for the big show. Our premiere was a hit and we got rave reviews. Word is spreading like wildfire so we'll probably be getting huge audiences for the rest of our tour. The last show is going to be at the same venue as our premiere, but since we'll have performed it so many times it's going to be perfect that time. When the tour is over, we'll be rolling around in piles of cash.

Hehehe... that sounds like we're a bunch of rockstars on tour or something... Actually, my friends and I are doing an Easter play as a fundraiser for our World Youth Day group (7 of us going to Cologne, Germany for WYD 2005). We're doing Way of the Cross. Each "scene" is a station of the Cross, and we're not actually moving, we're just doing a pose for each one (every scene is a "tableau") while Sara-sour narrates the scenes. I play Veronica, the one who wipes Jesus' face. So my scene is me holding up a cloth with a face imprint on it, Ryan (as Jesus) carrying the cross, and Jason (as a Roman soldier) pulling me away. Our first performance was at the Basilica, and we'll be performing it in several parishes for the next few weeks. Our last one will be on Good Friday, and it's probably going to be our best one, with our biggest audience.

In other news, I'm convinced that Professor Doran hates me. Well, I'm not too fond of him either, ever since he referred to the Bible as mythology and made snide comments on door-to-door evangelists in last semester's class. I myself am not a door-to-door evangelist, but I don't diss them. All the girls in the English department and the theatre society lust after him, they think he's so hot *pukes*. I just got a horrible mark on the essay I had to write for his class. Then again, he's a tough marker, but even Jane Magrath is known to be tough and I did great in her classes.

I just ordered my grad pictures. Out of the samples, I picked a smiling pose with my glasses on. My friends don't even recognize me without my glasses since I wear them all the time. My old high school grad pic is a serious pose with no glasses, but back then I wore contacts. Hard to believe it's been almost 5 years since high school grad, and now university grad is coming up...

My jazz dance teacher could see that I was sad about her not picking a David Bisbal song for my class for the recital. She picked it for the senior jazz class (the most advanced one). But she suggested a great compromise - I'll still get to be in my class' dance number, but she'll also stick me in the senior jazz's number so I'll still get to dance to David Bisbal. Yay! So I get to do 5 dances in total - 2 jazz (my class - jazz 4B and senior jazz), one ballet, one modern, and one tap. I also want to present my own choreography in the matinee recital with all the student choreographies. I've never choreographed anything before, so this is a bit of a challenge. I'm using a shorter piece of music so that I won't have to work out too many steps and stuff. Tomatito's "Aire de Tango". It's a bolero - slow Spanish music, flamenco guitar, gypsy violin... the dance I'm doing is kinda modern-ish and I'll probably just wear a black leotard and my flamenco skirt. Tomatito is a genius - one of the best flamenco guitarists ever. My inspiration for my dance was a poem I read in my Spanish literature class last year - Frederico Garcia Lorca's "Romance Sonambulo" - about a gypsy woman who waits for her lover at night, and when he never comes she drowns herself in a well...

Anyway, that's all for now... Hope my first blog entry didn't bore you.