I'm settling like orange juice pulp
So, I'm about to begin my third week here at BU, and am generally enjoying myself.
Classes are FANTASTIC. My studio classes (acting, movement, voice & speech) are all movement based and so I sweat and feel throughly worked at the end of each one. But we're really doing some amazing stuff. It is very basic, building block type stuff, but it's way fun. In acting, we focus on different parts of the body and exaggerate all these different types of movements, trying to keep the element of surprise our main focus. We have to let go of all pretenses and try to think as little as possible, which is really hard because you're told not to think about thinking which gets you thinking even more. We also do alot of ensemble reactionary type stuff that I won't even try explaining, but it's really fun. The teacher, John Lipsky, is this wonderful man with a plethora of white fluffy ear hair, and he wears the same pants every class. He has us imagine our auras as a warm-up to the warm-up and do what is called a "hunker"-a thinking position similar to crouching.
Movement is also grreat. Judith is the teacher and she is this petite little woman with the strength of 5 oxes, and she is so sweet and yet incredibly stern, and we've been exploring lots of trust type stuff, freeing up our movements and viewpoints which is this interesting thing that involves like...all these things. I did it during Kid Simple.
Voice and Speech is probably the most intense class, because like the others, we do alot of freeing movement type things that help us be as open as possible, but everything we do is aimed at...finding out who we are in a sense. It's such a self exploration class. All our movements somehow connect back to our "inner selves", and please take me seriously because this class is fucking amazing. This past week we've been talking about our voices, and what our voice is and what we want it to be, and what's stopping us, and it's been this emotional whirlwind of events and everyone is sharing all this intense stuff, and I never could have imagined it being so great.
I'm also taking a writing 100 on dante's inferno which is incredibly interesting, and the class is so small. And then also Intro to Dramatic lit, which is for all freshmen theatre people.
I worked out at the sweet gym for the first time yesterday, and the dining hall has really great food almost every single day. Yesterday, I had grilled salmon, whole wheat cous cous this greek yogurt cucumber salad with onions and green peppers and all these delicious spices and then blueberry cobbler for dessert.
I'm OBSESSED with these waffles that you can get at all hours of the day, and I drink cranberry juice at every meal.
Theatre people are cool, cliques form absurdly fast, and I really don't them at all, there are some people who are incredibly hard to approach, to prove this, I had a dream last night that one of them killed my brother and then didn't have any remorse. That sucked. But yeah, I've been to a few parties, the one I was at last night, some fools were just sniffing up the cocadacaine. And there was a screamo band..it was kind of a strange scene. I've been really good about drinking though, never even close to excess, but enough to have an extra good time. My dorm room is in tip top shape, it feels much like home.
RIght now I'm at the ipod store hopefully about to get my ipod fixed! It may be broken beyond repair.
Boston is sooooo great. It only just starting to cool down, we've only had a couple of rainy days, but it's mainly sunny and nice.
That's it for now.
How is Denver?
Classes are FANTASTIC. My studio classes (acting, movement, voice & speech) are all movement based and so I sweat and feel throughly worked at the end of each one. But we're really doing some amazing stuff. It is very basic, building block type stuff, but it's way fun. In acting, we focus on different parts of the body and exaggerate all these different types of movements, trying to keep the element of surprise our main focus. We have to let go of all pretenses and try to think as little as possible, which is really hard because you're told not to think about thinking which gets you thinking even more. We also do alot of ensemble reactionary type stuff that I won't even try explaining, but it's really fun. The teacher, John Lipsky, is this wonderful man with a plethora of white fluffy ear hair, and he wears the same pants every class. He has us imagine our auras as a warm-up to the warm-up and do what is called a "hunker"-a thinking position similar to crouching.
Movement is also grreat. Judith is the teacher and she is this petite little woman with the strength of 5 oxes, and she is so sweet and yet incredibly stern, and we've been exploring lots of trust type stuff, freeing up our movements and viewpoints which is this interesting thing that involves like...all these things. I did it during Kid Simple.
Voice and Speech is probably the most intense class, because like the others, we do alot of freeing movement type things that help us be as open as possible, but everything we do is aimed at...finding out who we are in a sense. It's such a self exploration class. All our movements somehow connect back to our "inner selves", and please take me seriously because this class is fucking amazing. This past week we've been talking about our voices, and what our voice is and what we want it to be, and what's stopping us, and it's been this emotional whirlwind of events and everyone is sharing all this intense stuff, and I never could have imagined it being so great.
I'm also taking a writing 100 on dante's inferno which is incredibly interesting, and the class is so small. And then also Intro to Dramatic lit, which is for all freshmen theatre people.
I worked out at the sweet gym for the first time yesterday, and the dining hall has really great food almost every single day. Yesterday, I had grilled salmon, whole wheat cous cous this greek yogurt cucumber salad with onions and green peppers and all these delicious spices and then blueberry cobbler for dessert.
I'm OBSESSED with these waffles that you can get at all hours of the day, and I drink cranberry juice at every meal.
Theatre people are cool, cliques form absurdly fast, and I really don't them at all, there are some people who are incredibly hard to approach, to prove this, I had a dream last night that one of them killed my brother and then didn't have any remorse. That sucked. But yeah, I've been to a few parties, the one I was at last night, some fools were just sniffing up the cocadacaine. And there was a screamo band..it was kind of a strange scene. I've been really good about drinking though, never even close to excess, but enough to have an extra good time. My dorm room is in tip top shape, it feels much like home.
RIght now I'm at the ipod store hopefully about to get my ipod fixed! It may be broken beyond repair.
Boston is sooooo great. It only just starting to cool down, we've only had a couple of rainy days, but it's mainly sunny and nice.
That's it for now.
How is Denver?