Well after my little physical setback I was able to get back in the game. Week two, and really our first full week of classes. It went quite well. I was worried at the beginning of the week that my back injury would either make it impossible for me to participate, or that I would push myself too far to fast and hurt myself even more. Neither of those things happened, thank goodness.
Monday did start off with a big dose of adrenalin though. This was the first week of Performance Practices, a class we have twice a week, with our two course leaders. In this class we will be mostly working on repertoire. This meant that half of us had to get up to work songs in front of the class on Monday morning. You would think that after all of us performing for each other the week before this would not be so scary. Well, you would be wrong. I think it may have been harder to get up and sing this week than it was last. But sing I did, nerves or not. It went rather well I think, got some good feedback and I did some good work. Now I need to find another piece to sing next week. Still working on that one, but I'll be ok.
The week continued with the rest of our classes. Had my first voice lesson here, which was great. I think a lot of this term will be spent working on vocal range. Also I am getting the feeling that this term is going to be incredibly physical. We have fitness, and physical theatre, and our acting class is quite physical (more on that later), student led yoga and dance, and I have a rather long walk too and from school. I was rather exhausted when I got to this morning. And when I am done here I am going to go do my homework for fitness, which involves more dance. Phew! It is great. For all that I am absolutely exhausted, I am feeling really good. I do want to go in search of more structured dance classes, but at the moment I am struggling get all my course work done, and acclimate myself to a new city. There are other important things on my to do list that come first.
One of the most important things on my to do list right now is my social life. Let me tell you how to make friends in grad school. After class sit in the hallways at school and curse at each other. No, I'm not kidding. Ok, so we were working on memorizing a scene for class, but still. Quite fun. Since then, as a group we have also beaten each other into a bloody pulp (yep that same scene). That was an interesting class. The teacher shouting directions at us like 'gouge his eyes out,' 'kill him' and other endearing sentiments like that. It was fun. I am pretty sure that because of that scene we have all very quickly gotten quite comfortable around each other. We have a really good group of people in our class. I am looking forward to getting to know all of them better. This evening the student union is hosting a mixer for the few courses that have already started, so we will get to know some of the other MAs at the school. Hopefully it will be a fun evening.
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