I've hit a wall. This week it seems that a lot of things have come to a head. Nothing catastrophic mind you, just a week of mild to medium frustration. I am frustrated with my homework, with my living situation, with my work ethic. Gah. Or maybe its just this evening.
Today has been spent in a fruitless search to find a scene to present in my acting class. The teacher has asked us to bring in contemporary scenes for Tuesday. Contemporary, meaning written in the past 10 years. So I start out well on Tuesday: I get a partner, I go to the library, I find suggestions on good scenes with two women, I check out several plays. Later that evening I realize that all of the contemporary plays I selected were actually written in the 80's. Back to the drawing board. On Wednesday another girl in our class approaches my partner and me and asks to join our group. Now back to the library. A little bit stumped for 3 woman scenes until I see a classmate carrying around August Osage County. Wonderful! However when I go to the library it seems that they only have one copy of the script. So I talk to the person who has the book, turns out her partner has the book and wont be back until Monday. No problem I'll just go to the bookstore and buy a copy. Then on Friday night another classmate reveals that she doesnt have a partner, so we reshuffle the groups so we are all in pairs. Now here is where I made my big mistake, I took Saturday as a personal, lay around the house day, figuring that I would go to the bookstore on Sunday, pick up one of any number of good contemporary plays that I know and we'll be set to work on Monday. However when I go to not one but 3 different bookstores I find that they seem to only carry Shakespeare and Pinter, neither of whom have done much writing recently. I then spent the rest of the evening scouring the internet to find digital copies of any decent play, nothing. So tomorrow its back to the school library, where they should have one or two titles on hold for me. And hopefully everything will resolve itself. The really frustrating part of this is that I know I have copies of most of the plays I am looking for, they are just located on another continent. Well, these are all lessons that will help me the next time around.
Then on the other hand I have to learn a South Korean dialect for class on Tuesday as well (for some reason all of my scary homework is due Tuesday). That isnt going so well either. I have one recording of my partner reading some text, and thats about it. I was hoping to meet with her again on Friday to get some more work done. However when I showed up for our meeting she said she needed to work on some music instead. So I am hoping that Monday after class I can grab both her and my scene partner for some extra work!
The other big frustration this week was my bank account. It took a full week for my check to clear into my account. I have been waiting for this check to clear so that I can buy plane tickets to visit David over our reading week. I had to sit and watch ticket prices climb day after day until I finally bought my tickets on Friday. However I did buy my tickets, so in less than two weeks I will be winging my way East to Copenhagen! So I do get to check that stress off of my list.
Enough of that rant. The week did contain a lot of great stuff as well. Went and saw the Lion King in 3D with my classmates and one of my roommates on Friday. We all had a fun time reliving our childhoods. It is starting to feel like fall here, which I love. Its amazing how quickly it went from shorts and tank top weather last weekend, to sweaters and boots this weekend. The leaves are starting to crunch on my walk to school. I am really loving my acting class, even as frustrated as I am about finding this scene. We presented scenes from Musicals this past week. I am learning so much from that class. Our teacher is relentless, but wonderfully encouraging. I think I am also progressing quite a bit in my voice lessons.
Now, the Classroom Snatchers. I new it was going to happen eventually, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. All of the other students start on Monday. It was so nice having the whole building to ourselves. All of the practice rooms, whenever we needed them. Dance studios free all the time. No more. Now they have even shoved our Monday morning class off campus. We are having performance workshop in a church somewhere. I am not really sure where! We'll see how this week goes. I have been coming early and staying late each day to get work done, I may have to extend those hours even further to get a chance to use the practice rooms. Hopefully we will all survive this transition! I'll let you know.
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