I Know It's Late But... Happy 2007!!

Hi y'all, I'm still alive! :P I humbly apologize (again) for not having upped my blog in a while. It's my first post for this new year of 2007! Exciting, exciting. As most people know, I'm now a university student at University of Hawaii at Manoa! I'm taking a total of six classes, three of which I'm taking at UH and the other three I'm taking at Kapiolani Community College. Just for reference sake, I'm listing my classes and my thoughts on the classes:

UH

Theatre 240: Introduction to Theatre Production
A fairly interesting class though at times a bit 'dry' though that could partly be because of the teacher... :P

American Studies 458: Film in American Culture
I'm happy about this class because... no quizzes or tests! ^_^ It's mostly a discussion type of class where we'll see clips of film and how it relates to the American culture.

Academy of Creative Media 255: Cinema and Digital Media
I already love, love, LOVE this class! Definitely my favorite class at UH. My teacher is awesome and we get to watch complete movies! We've watched An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Citizen Kane so far; next week we're watching Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon which I'm really excited about. This class we basically analyze the technical aspects of a film which is different from the film in American Culture class which seems more... 'deep'. :P Deep doesn't necessarily mean that much though... I prefer this class. :P

KCC

Music 231B: Private Voice Instruction
Yes, I'm taking private voice lessons. :P My teacher, Lina, last semester highly recommended I take this class because she says that my voice, with training, can get better. The class is 30 minutes private instructions once a week. I've only had one class so far and I think it's going to be interesting. :P In just the first class I learned a lot about what it means to sing physically and just how much posture can effect the voice.

Music 221B: Voice 2
Another voice class but this is with a class. We're going to be focusing on classical, jazz, ethnic, and country western styles of singing. The past few weeks has been cool; we've been writing our own short 'opera' song which we'll be performing in groups next week. :P I'll tell you how it goes after we 'perform' it. ^_^

Music 230: Musical Theatre Production
This semester, I'm going to be in the KCC production of Evita! I'm really excited about it; we had auditions and callbacks the first week and we've gotten the cast list. I'm going to be in the ensemble which I'm happy because there's not too much pressure and I'll get to dance a lot. ^_^ The BEST thing though is that I was named Dance Captain, which means I'm going to be working with the choreographer Mitch to actually help teach the dancing. HURRAH! It's really an honor, well a double honor because I'm also the 'swing', meaning that I'm understudying for all the female roles. PLUS I'm going to be involved in stage managment... so much to do! But this is really what I want to do in theatre/film; to be involved in the actual production and behind the scenes sort of stuff. Wish me luck!

Besides these class, for Theatre 240 I need to either be involved in a UH production or put 45 hours in the prop shop or costume shop. I opted on the costume shop and I'm really, really, REALLY loving it. Everyone in the costume department is REALLY nice, including Hannah who's in charge. UH is putting on a Kyogen from this week so I've been helping to sew hakamas, obis, kimonos, and etc. ^_^ I've been able to help a lot; in fact, after I finish up my 45 hours, Hannah has offered me a job to work in the costume shop! We'll see what happens though it sounds like something I would love to do.

Ah, soooo much! :P I'm probably overwhelming you. lol! I'll give you a quick 'what-happened-today' before I sign off. Woke up and got to watch an episode of Mission Impossible before heading off to class at UH. Just to let you know, my parking situation for UH is that I found a street parking area which always has space and is about 15 minutes away from my classes. So you can imagine I do quite a bit of walking now. :P

Anyway, went off to my 11:30 class; finished early (around 12:00) so I hung out with one of my new UH friends then since it's Wednesday, I started work at the costume shop from 1:00 (I work from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the costume shop on Wednesdays and Fridays). Today was a bit different though because around 2:30 I did my friend a favor and drove her to a frabic store since she needed some material for a class. I went back to the costume shop to finish up until 5:00 then headed home. My turn to cook though mostly it was leftover. I can heat up things very nicely. ^_^

After dinner, I started 'tweaking' my resume. Which reminds me, I've been nominated for the UH Presidential scholarship!! It's a full tuition scholarship including a $2,000 stipend and $2,000 to be used for some sort of travel. Isn't that AMAZING?! Of course, I haven't received the scholarship or anything. :P lol! But I am working to put together my resume, letters of recommendation, personal statement, and transcript. Please be praying for me since this is all in God's hands. ^_^ Oh, yes, on another note. I'll be meeting with an advisor this Friday about the BA degree I'm pursuing. Please be praying that the meeting goes well!

At 8:00 we had our weekly prayer meeting then Naomi and I finished watching a movie, followed by watching American Idol which I taped earlier in the evening. The audition was in New York so you can imagine that there were quite a few 'iiiiinteresting' people. lol!

I'm off to bed in a bit. Tomorrow's a full day with (hopefully) a meeting with a teacher about a letter of recommendation, then private voice class, Voice II, and musical theatre class. Woohoo! Till next time!