Two New Years Resolutions(?) have been accomplished

Hello!

At the beginning of the year, I didn't have any New Years Resolutions. I never have. I don't really believe in them either. However, this year, two goals somehow got their way into my brain.

One of the goals was to ask Ms. Eddy, the choir teacher, to see if I could maybe start conduction, like Sophie Doemer and Gabe Gamboa, next year. Now, I'm not good at isolating people to speak to them. But I unconsciously saw an opportunity last Friday, and my dream came true. Now I get to start my conducting training this year, and I might be able to conduct one of our pieces at the Spring Choral Concert!

My second goal was to ask Dino (the god of lighting and anything in tech in general) if I could stage manage the next musical. I was more nervous to talk to Dino than Ms. Eddy, but I knew that I had to do it in order to stage manage the next musical. On Saturday, I had to arrive at Addams Family rehearsal 2 hours early, and so I was planning to ask him there. After all, I was going to help him for the next 2 hours. Eventually, as I was helping Ms. Robinson with the prop tables, I sneaked into the conversation the subject of stage managing. I asked her instead if I could stage manage the next musical, and she, to my delight, said of course I could. And so now I will be stage managing the next musical.

Hope your wishes come true, too!
-Aimee

When your an Addams... - my experience so far in Addams Family.

Hellllllooooo!

Before I thought of what to write for this blog, I was thinking about maybe posting haiku, but I wasn't  up to that since my haiku are personal.  Maybe some other time. Then I was thinking, what exciting things are happening right now with my life, and so I though, "Oh yeah... I'm doing a musical... that's exciting." Guess what I'm going to write about.

So this is my first time really ever to be in a big play of any sort. I've teched the other musicals and plays, but that doesn't count. In elementary school, we were forced to put on a play/musical every year, but that definitely doesn't count. In my middle school, I join the after school "Drama" program, so I did short scenes with friends on a stage, but that doesn't really count either.

Rehearsal goes before you know it. We're rehearsing from 3:15-6:15 each school day. We've rehearsed for 2 months and we're on our third and final month, and it feels like it's at the end of the 2nd month. We learned all of the songs once, and Mike (the pianist of the Choral program) yells at us constantly. We have to learn the dances in a very short period of time, and so many of us forget by the next day.

Right now, the set (which look gorgeous YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT IN THE BLACK BOX) is being painted (I couldn't resist, I painted in my spare time) and it's looking amazing! Rob and Dino are really doing miracles to get it done (with help, of course, but still). Mizzee, our costume designer works wonders, too. All of the costumes that I've seen are awesome.

Just saying, if your unsure of seeing it, let me tell you this much. IF YOU KNOW A GROUCHY BIG MAN WHO YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE SMILING LAUGHING HIS HEAD OFF, THAT'S WHAT REHEARSAL IS LIKE EVERY DAY. GO AND SEE IT!

pax et fortuna,

-Aimee

Influence

Hello, and happy New Year!!!

So this time I'm not posting a poem, but I'm posting a self-reflection.
I am influenced very easily.
I don't like to admit it at all, and most of the time I don't think so, but I truly am. Especially by other people's thoughts. If I'm unsure about something and other people express their ideas, I automatically agree with them, not really knowing my reason for agreeing with them. This is a very bad habit of mine because it has made me do things that I wish I didn't.
I don't do New Years Resolutions, but maybe I will. Maybe this year I will try to not be influenced by other people's opinions. Then again, that's probably a bad idea. Maybe I'll just try to catch myself agreeing to things I shouldn't. I think that's good enough.