25/10

Yesterday was interesting... I have to admit that it wasn't nessesarily good on my part but I got through it. To start Firday night i was up really late because I had to read a play then perform a scene from it. I went to bed at 2:30 in the morning. Then ofcourse to my luck, our class started at 9:15 instead of 10 so I was up early as well. Our class was early because we need more time so Film was 4 hours long. To be honest I was drifting in and out of conciousness during the first film but the second film I was very interested in and am going to write my final paper on, which I'm going to do in just a few minutes. It was a silent film from the soviet era but the camera work was unbelivable especially for that time. They used framing and movement very effectively to set the mood of the piece. We then had a two hour break but one and half of those hours was spent working on a scene with my acting class inwhich in 3 days working on it I have yet to enter and do work- yeah! Ofcourse the work they are doing is interesting but I would like to do it instead of watch. We then all had etudes but me and my partner had planned to rehears during the break as well but we didn't have time so we improved based on what we had talked about. To be honest it wasn't very good and I broke charater laughing but for me personally I tried a distinctivly comic part which I haven't done before and Alex and Sasha said that it actually fit me pretty well and we would continue to work on comic characters which are traditionally of side of my type, which I am really excited about. I was a little disappointed because I could have done better.

In the evening we went to see my acting teacher, Sasha's show, which he prefaced by saying it wasn't very good. I personally didn't understand to much because it was a farce about actors and a lot of the actors on stage played their characters untruthfully BUT Sasha was amazing. You can see his why he works at MXT he was hilarious yet so truthfull in every outragous action. It was upsetting though because we were seated next to these two girls. These girls were clearly drunk and were continuing to drink at the show. They were loud talking at laughing they kept dropping there "Coke" bottles on the floor and they would roll forwards to the people in front of them. When they drank you could smell the alcohol. One of the girl kept snorting and dropped hre gum out of her mouth and started chewing on her necklace and then they started making fun of the "amerikanits" which was the final straw to move seats.

So after a clearly interesting day, I stayed at home and had 4 hours of theater conversation with some friends and had a sleepover in Hannah's room. I wooke up very late and had my traditional brunch, went grocery shopping for the week and now I'm going to try to get ahead in my classes because we have alot of shows including Swan Lake and the Bolshoy which I am so excited for I can't even express in words. The weeks are going fast and I'm trying to do as much as I can and have as much energy as possible so I take advantage of what little time remains. It suprises me how soon I will be seeing all of you.
Love
Kirsten