Nice, Relaxing, Yet at the Same Time Busy Weekend

Hello to all! It's Sunday evening right now and I must say that I've had a pretty nice weekend. ^_^ Let me give a recap of what has happened since I last left you on Wednesday:

Thursday:
I didn't have class until 11:30 so I decided to get some things done in preparation of handing in my Scholarship application. First off I went to see Mr. Cassity, a former History instructor of mine for three semesters for those who my have forgotten. :P Anyway, I was able to talk with him about writing me a letter of recommendation which I'm really happy about. Mr. Cassity is the instructor who has known me the longest during my college years so I know that he'll be able to write me a good letter. Then while waiting around till next class, I bumped into a former classmate of mine and we were just talking for about twenty minutes, just catching up.

I had private voice lesson from 11:30 to 12; I think I did pretty well. I'm still working on my posture and breathing as well as loosening my throat. Sooo many things to think of when singing though Lina repeatedly tells me that you have to be 'stupid' to sing and not to think too much. :S Easy for her to say... I just have a hard time shutting my brain. :P lol!

Voice class II was next. I might have mentioned before but the class was divided into three groups and we have to work on arranging our own opera. Basically we have to think of simple plot and then add words to a well known melody. My group is doing a story about a group of friends hanging out at someone's house at 2am in the morning, all the while the owners trying to kick us out. :P Ok, a slightly 'stupid' story but it's supposed to be really simple. Anyway, it turns out that my group was the only one who had finished. ^_^ Hurray, we're ahead! Plus Lina listened to ours and said it was good, meaning we have the 'ok' to 'perform' next week.

Went home and had a late lunch before heading off to musical theatre class. We had our pianist in class today so we worked on the first scene for Evita. It was fun preparing for the scene as we all 'got into character.' Well, it was more like Cynthia, Brent, and I (who are all playing Evita's siblings) were poking each other, untying each other shoe laces, flicking sunglasses off other's heads, etc. :P We were getting into character! ^_^

After class I went home for a quick dinner and then Erin, Maki, Tiffany, and I went to see the Kyogen play at the Kennedy Theatre at UH. As I said, I'm working at the costume shop so I was able to get us all freek tickets for the preview show. ^_^ Muahahaha, cool huh? What was even more cool was that my name is on the 'credits' in the Kyogen pamphlet!! "Costume Accessory Construction: [... several names... then] Priscilla Stafford" Isn't that cool?! ^_^ Anyway, a friend from Kaimuki church, Yoko, and a friend/classmate of mine were also there which was nice. Afterwards, Mitch (who's the house manager of Kennedy Theatre so he was there) showed me where the Lights/Sound booth and I was able to see my friend Aya who was the light board / sound board operator. Really neat to see all the switchboards, headsets, and etc.

Friday

You know, at first I didn't like the idea of having to go to school on Friday. But now that I've been going for a few weeks, I actually like getting out of the house even if it's for school. Only one class and I love being in the costume shop. So anway, had Theatre class from 11:30 and because it was just a review for an upcoming exam, we got to leave around 11:45. :P So my friend Aya and I went to the campus cafe to have some cafe. It's really nice having a friend now at UH to hang out with after class and such. Then from 1 to 5 I was working in the costume shop. Since the costumes for the Kyogen is done and the costume designers are working on the designs for the next show (Shakespeare's As You Like It), I was finishing the edges of a quilt which the costume shop makes to help pay for parking and sometimes to donate.

Went home and then after dinner, started watching The Miracle Worker with Erin and Maki but I was sooo tired for some reason that I left midway to lie down. :P Woke up after sleeping for a little over an hour then watched The Ron Clark Story with Naomi. It was actually a really, really, REALLY good movie! Similar to The Freedom Writers which I went to see in theaters a few days ago, but I really liked The Ron Clark Story, starring Matthew Perry who was nominated for Best Actor in a TV movie. I need to probably watch again.

Saturday:
Slept in till around 9:00 then from 9:30 to around 10:45 I was at Kaimuki Church since Joe was starting his 'open' drums lessons again. ^_^ It was nice because no other people came today so it was just me and Joe. Joe was able to teach me some 'exercises' to help me get better which I felt really good about since for some reason I've felt that I've hit a 'wall' with my playing. I just haven't felt like I'm improving at all; so it was really good that I was able to have Joe teach me 'privately' and I feel a better in a way.

Naomi and I went out for some shopping and had a really nice lunch together. Was able to get a lot done since Naomi needed some things before she leaves for Japan soon. So we were out until around 4:30. Got home and then since we found out that a couple we know from New Hope Diamond Head Church just had a baby early that morning, we went with Tina and a few others to see the baby around 6:30. The baby's name is Rebecca Melody Dean and was soooooooooo cute! She has an older sister, Alana, who is 2 years old and is also really adorable; she kept saying 'baby!' and wanted to touch her new baby sister. :P

After the visit at Tripler hospital, Naomi, Tina, and I went to eat dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory. I just love the food there though for some reason I couldn't eat much. :P

Sunday:
Finally Sunday! :P Went to the 8:00 service at New Hope Diamond Head then had our own service around 10:00. Then from 11:00, we all went to Magic Island for a barbecue hosted by this family from Kaimuki Christian Church. Their Young Adult Bible study group was there along with Naomi's New Hope Diamond Head Church's Bible study group. It was lots of fun, especially since there was a volleyball net set up. ^_^ I played a lot of volleyball, and my teams won!!!

Left around 4:00 and came home. I just relaxed in front of the computer for a while. Got to talk to my mother which was really nice; it was her birthday today in Japan! So... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!!

For dinner I made ramen and all four of us watched What's Up, Doc? It's really been a while since we've watched it so that was a lot of fun. And now... I've finally caught up with writing my blog! :P Sorry for it being so long. Anyway, tomorrow's plans are to go to school and to turn in my scholarship application. :S Wish me luck! I also might got to the New Hope Diamond Head college Bible study group so I hope that goes well, too. Until next time!