21
So my 21st birthday party was tonight! (Actual birthday's not till next Sunday, but this was the only sensible day we could get the venue.) Had it at the James Cook Grand Chancellor, aka where some of my friends' seventh form ball was and my cousin's debut while I was in Florida was. A big, sort of fancy thing - I say "sort of" because I totally wore Chucks and my goggles with my long $30 on end of season sale at Staxs three years ago gown, and some of us sat in a big circle on the floor for supper (there weren't many chairs).
My sister made me a slideshow and sang me "My Life Would Suck Without You" with some changed lyrics (something along the lines of "I won't take back all I said before like that you're so stupid for walking into doors" - I literally walk into our hallway door at least once every few days) :) Had some lovely speeches from mad_as_soup, ladycariad, one of my cousins, and one of my friends from primary. And then my cousin and I danced a slight adaptation of "Can I Have This Dance" from High School Musical 3, as kind of a cotillion thing but with less people and obviously not a debut (that's eighteenths) and also as kind of a tribute to Chris. I'm actually quite impressed we didn't screw it up or fall off the bench which we never actually practised with or something!
Yeeeeah, so my shoelace came undone at the start, I took it off entirely partway through the song, and everything went downhill from there.
Still, I'm quite glad I did a dance with just one other person instead of a cotillion: It made organizing practice a lot easier than with seventeen other people like a cotillion, we kind of just chatted through practically every runthrough, when we screwed up (frequently: apart from that video there was one time where we tried dancing on a piano stool for part of it and it fell) we just laughed at ourselves where in a group everyone would laugh and then everyone would get mad, and "Can I Have This Dance" is actually really hard because there's a ton of lifts in it but we still managed to do it having only started practising on Tuesday.
Also can I just say that I suddenly really understand why Vanessa Hudgens was in a sleeved dress for that dance? Because I have this really intense-looking underarm bruise from the chorus lifts now. :| And Zanessa would have had to do it so many more times than we did!
Ooh, and towards the end these two complete strangers came down from the wedding reception upstairs looking for me: There were signs around downstairs and on the floor saying "Caryl's 21st" and it turns out the lady of this old Pakeha couple was also named Caryl and was very surprised to find there was another one in the world spelt with a Y! Apparently she's named Caryl because her mother read some poetry by a Caryl Brahms (I'm so not spelling that right).
All in all, I had a really good time :D and will probably post more photos/videos as some good ones go up (especially the dance because I am freaking proud of that and I think Chris would have been too - well, no, he would have been my partner for it). I mean, I put my camera out with a sign saying to use it, and people did (170 photos) but they're pretty much just hilarious and I'll go through them more after work. :P
In uni news: I ended up adapting a scene from an RP fic for my first scriptwriting assignment :/ Whoops. And auditions for Summer Folk are on Wednesday and I have to learn a monologue and this is kind of embarrassing for a theater major to admit but this is actually my first time having to learn one for an audition?? Because most of my auditions have had sides available there, or, well, musical theater, I'm more about the songs. But this is kind of why I took this paper, to get better at the acting stuff. :)
My sister made me a slideshow and sang me "My Life Would Suck Without You" with some changed lyrics (something along the lines of "I won't take back all I said before like that you're so stupid for walking into doors" - I literally walk into our hallway door at least once every few days) :) Had some lovely speeches from mad_as_soup, ladycariad, one of my cousins, and one of my friends from primary. And then my cousin and I danced a slight adaptation of "Can I Have This Dance" from High School Musical 3, as kind of a cotillion thing but with less people and obviously not a debut (that's eighteenths) and also as kind of a tribute to Chris. I'm actually quite impressed we didn't screw it up or fall off the bench which we never actually practised with or something!
Click to viewYeeeeah, so my shoelace came undone at the start, I took it off entirely partway through the song, and everything went downhill from there.
Still, I'm quite glad I did a dance with just one other person instead of a cotillion: It made organizing practice a lot easier than with seventeen other people like a cotillion, we kind of just chatted through practically every runthrough, when we screwed up (frequently: apart from that video there was one time where we tried dancing on a piano stool for part of it and it fell) we just laughed at ourselves where in a group everyone would laugh and then everyone would get mad, and "Can I Have This Dance" is actually really hard because there's a ton of lifts in it but we still managed to do it having only started practising on Tuesday.
Also can I just say that I suddenly really understand why Vanessa Hudgens was in a sleeved dress for that dance? Because I have this really intense-looking underarm bruise from the chorus lifts now. :| And Zanessa would have had to do it so many more times than we did!
Ooh, and towards the end these two complete strangers came down from the wedding reception upstairs looking for me: There were signs around downstairs and on the floor saying "Caryl's 21st" and it turns out the lady of this old Pakeha couple was also named Caryl and was very surprised to find there was another one in the world spelt with a Y! Apparently she's named Caryl because her mother read some poetry by a Caryl Brahms (I'm so not spelling that right).
All in all, I had a really good time :D and will probably post more photos/videos as some good ones go up (especially the dance because I am freaking proud of that and I think Chris would have been too - well, no, he would have been my partner for it). I mean, I put my camera out with a sign saying to use it, and people did (170 photos) but they're pretty much just hilarious and I'll go through them more after work. :P
In uni news: I ended up adapting a scene from an RP fic for my first scriptwriting assignment :/ Whoops. And auditions for Summer Folk are on Wednesday and I have to learn a monologue and this is kind of embarrassing for a theater major to admit but this is actually my first time having to learn one for an audition?? Because most of my auditions have had sides available there, or, well, musical theater, I'm more about the songs. But this is kind of why I took this paper, to get better at the acting stuff. :)