Monday Woes

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How you know it's a monday morning: Today when entering a tube station i saw a girl trying to go down the UP escalator, she was staring at it very puzzled. It took the guy working in the station to call to her 3 times before she realized what she was doing. He kindly said to me, "That's how you know it's a monday morning."
-->As a side note, he's SUCH a nice guy, i see him almost every morning and weekend morning, he's always so friendly-waves and starts up a converstation. :)

Today was difficult. and long. And the start of a super long week. Mondays are always the hardest because it's all the physical stuff. But today we also had this master class so we went from 9:30-9:30 (minus hour for lunch and hour for dinner). Long long long. So i kind of headed home rather down, especially since the masterclass didn't exactly perk me up. It was a difficult day. And i needed to keep reminding myself that these happen. Sometimes you leave class wondering how the hell you ever thought you could do this--or how the hell you're ever going too. And sometimes you leave feeling on top the world, ready to accomplish everything. Today was first, which is ok, it's just something i've got to move on from.

The picture above i saw on one of the blogs i read. Isn't it lovely. It reminds me of my Dad, not the purple girlie part but the message. The it's ok to fail thing is something he's always reminding me--because i get a little caught up in that whole worrying to much about failing or being "bad" at something, instead of allowing myself to fail and to be inspired/excited to learn from the mistakes i make.

Although, i do think i'm getting better at it. I just need to make it through this week. I am excited to see "ENRON" this wednesday. I also had a VERY fun exciting weekend, with LOTS and LOTS of pictures i promise to upload sometime this week.

Cheers and very much love, T
Ps. Mom i have SO many highgate pictures for you, i think you might burst ;)

First Day :)

Today was our real first day. And it wasn't as insane as i thought it would be, but it was still pretty crazy. :D

Left the flats at 8:45 AM and class started at 9:30. So we all got there a little early and had some time to chill before class.

First up (9:30-11) was Movement: It was so much fun! Our tutor is wonderful, so fun and silly but i feel like we're all really going to be challenged. In the first 10 minutes we were all panting and ready to die. After a bit of warming up and really playing with our bodies she told us we had 3 minutes to think of something unique to show her. Some kind of talent, so she could associate us with something. Erg. great. So i just decided to sing Disneyland. Of course she calls my name first. Great. And of course my voice cracks half way through had i dunno it was pretty horrifying. So basically i sat back down while everyone else was wonderful and got up and did their talent. At least three other singers. All i could think was "great, i can't even do my talent right and had to make a fool of myself in front of everyone." But, i guess it's good to just get it out of the way right? Then we did a bit more movement and talked about future classes and such.

Then we had a little break and at 11:15 we had Sonnets. I feel very lucky because my sonnet professor is Richard Digby Day (he runs the entire program and is such a wonderful person to be learning from). And ususally he doesn't teach the sonnets so it's like double the luck. ;) Anyways the sonnet class made me feel a lot better. It was really fun and it's nice to start working through things.

At 1 we got a nice lunch break. And I'm really starting to feel that we're all meshing more. It's great :D

Then at 2 we started The Novel Project. Most of us were worried because we thought we'd have this huge test on the book we were reading, but it wasn't that bad. :) It was more of a chat about the book, where she asked us specific questions. The difficult part is that this project is basically taking 8 pages out of the book and putting it onstage. Without missing a word. So we spent the first two hours chatting about the book and together reading through the text. Then we broke up into two groups and each group has about 7-8 pages that we're putting together. The last hour we worked together and started splitting up the text. But we have about 5 hours tomorrow (the whole thing goes up on sunday) so it's going to work out.

Then that was over at 5, so we now had an hour for dinner. ( At 6 we had stage combat but he broke us up into two groups so the first group went at 6 and i was in the second group, so i did some shopping and came back at 7).

Finally at 7 i had stage combat. Wicked great class, the professor is so wonderful. We haven't started with the rapiers yet--we're just using our pointer fingers to practice the movements but i think i'm really going to love it.

AND then at 8 i got on the tube to come home. The end. :D

Now, i'm very tired and i have a bit to memorize...so i'll head off to bed. But i think you get it. Thats basically the rest of my week with a few different changes here and there. But it's going to be very long (especially because we don't get sat/sun off). I'm sorry this was not very exciting...but it was lots of fun!

Miss you all!
Cheers! T

Orientation Day 1

Today felt long. We got lots of information on living in London and met a bunch of the professors. It was a nice start, and tomorrow i think is going to be even more exciting. I really cannot wait to see Troilus and Cressida again. I really did love it.

I'm just worried. And i have to keep reminding myself it's ok to be worried, everyone else is. I just think, i expected it to be different. I mean, when you're a freshman in college, everyone is in the same boat because no one knows each other. I was expecting this experience to be the same...but actually most students came here with other kids from their school. A group of 5 came here together. So i'm finding it difficult to feel...apart of the group. But, i know once we start classes and get to know each other things will change. I just don't like this shy and uncomfortable feeling right now. But i'm sure it will evolve eventually. I do really like the people i've gotten to know though, and i think i'm going to get along well with everyone...it just takes time.

I'm also obviously worried about classes, and the level i'm at compared to everyone else. But i'm always worried about that. I just have to continually remind myself that we're learning. It's a learning experience. Dad reminded me that i really just have to do the best that i can, i mean what else can i do, right? But again, we'll see.

Right now i'm going to do some reading. I'm sure tomorrow is going to be lots more exciting. This time instead of being high up, we're going to be standing in the middle part of the Globe theatre. I'll literally be leaning on the stage watching them. I'm so excited. We're going to have to get there early.

Good night,

Love T

ps. Isn't that a great picture. While we were all leaving LDA someone noticed this on one of the flats we passed. It's right on the corner of Kensington square. Such a beautiful vine.