Digging Out of the Snow...
Sorry it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. I have been buried. Under snow? For one day, yes, but that was it. This is the East 15 campus, blanketed...
Anyone who knows me well knows that I love snow more than anything in this world, so I was thrilled!
Other than that day of snowy bliss, it has been a really tough 2 weeks. We had a 3000-word essay due this past Monday so everyone was so stressed and focused on getting that done and turned in. That was obstacle number one. We were then cast in our roles for The Common Chorus. I was cast as the loud, brassy American, Lampito. I know, a real stretch! No, it's very cool and I am looking forward to working on it. For our characters, because they are so loosely defined, we had to create them pretty much from scratch. All we have are the words on the page and they are not such a huge help as they normally could be. In order to do this, we had to create a character biography to turn in tomorrow. This could be in the form of a scrapbook, diary, book, etc. I opted for the scrapbook. Another shocker. It took me hours but it is done and it is pretty! On top of these two big projects, we have had our regular skills classes of voice, singing and movement. However, there is a new skills class this term - STAGE COMBAT!!! It rules and our teacher, Rachel, is a rock star! I have learned a lot of unarmed combat moves (punching, slapping, hair pulling, etc.) and now we have moved onto sword fighting. Oooh, it is good times!
So, that's the scoop from over here. Just a lot of work, nothing too exciting. I haven't even been out to the theatre lately. I will do, this next weekend. A belated shout out to my mom for her birthday on the 26th of January, Jaimee for hers on the 27th, Brendan for his on the 28th and to Aliana and our cat, Oreo (wherever he is, alive or not), for theirs on the 1st of February! A lot of celebrating I tell you!
I will leave you with a gorgeous picture of my Mark and I at a friend's 20's/30's themed birthday party - a night of relief in a sea of chaos!
posted by Eli @ 10:01 AM
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I thought Oreo wae born on the 3rd, but who's counting? Happy for your snow, we have only warm rain (this is the height of Winter in The Sandwich Isles) since the daily max temps hover between the high 70s to the low eighties, as usual. Only the nights are really chilly now, and I have taken to sleeping in a t-shirt. Shame. We had a 3-days high winds in our hills (the Keolu Hills) last week which came up gusting at 55+ mph; the temporary heavy-duty plastic wrap around the lanai was shreded. It was fun fixing it in the driving wind and rain.
Next week, Ari will be going with her class for an overnight trip to Volcano National Park in The Big Island, Hawaii. (You see around here many cars with an FBI bumper sticker; turns out it means 'From Big Island'... local humour.) Ali will be visiting for a week in mid-March; some friends from ACE who live now in Redmond (you know who he works for) will be visiting later this month. In short, we are starting to be hospitable, and by the time you'll get here we'll have it down pat to a Science.
See you soon!
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