Dancing, Coasties, Blogging, And Blatantly Posting My Acting Class Assignments as Entries

A little over a week ago, Friday the fifteenth, to be precise, we finally had our first Connecticut College Ballroom Dance Club meeting!! YAY! We worked on Swing, Salsa, and Waltz. It's always really cute to watch my friends try to dance ;D Haha. Dan, Ariana, and Tanaha were all there, along with a whole bunch of other people. Apparently the club was really small last year but grew a lot in time for this first meeting, lol.

The exciting part was after the club. We all went to the Coast Guard Academy because they were having a dance! It was awesome. I danced a lot in the beginning, but towards the end, no one wanted to ask me. Finally, Tanaha felt sorry for me [heh] and told me to follow her. I did. She walked right up to a group of Coastie boys and said, "We need two guys." They all looked a little surprised at her forwardness, but two guys volunteered, and we danced a rumba.

The whole thing was super cool. I met a lot of people, and I'm hoping to get back there some time soon.


It was the day after the dance, Saturday, 17 October. We gathered in the common room and watched Mary Poppins! It was pretty amazing. Crystal got scared and left, which is funny. She can watch all the horror movies in the world, but can't sit through Mary Poppins.

It's been years since I've seen it, and it's sort of crazy how much I'd forgotten. It's really a terrific movie in almost every way. Well done, Disney.


So yeah, I've got a new blog out there. You might have noticed - if you care - that I was writing about TV shows I've been watching and such, and then you might have noticed that I stopped almost as fast as I'd started. I figured that if I was doing that weekly, it would get really annoying really fast. So! I moved all my TV-movie-book-music blogging over to a new blog called I Should Be Studying. If you're interested in that sort of stuff, you can check it out. But this way, if you're not interested, it doesn't have to clutter up 4:12.


The Tempest was great. The effects were striking, the acting was fantastic, serious parts were serious, funny parts were funny, and everything ran smoothly and added up to create a great performance. And the set was beautiful, functional, and fitting for the play. One or two little pieces of clear green fabric created an entirely new setting. Everything was so intricate and well made, and created stunning levels for the actors to physically be on. The lights were good, too, especially the lightning. The sound was the only thing I didn’t love. In some scenes, the drumming drowned out the voices (and I was only in the second row!) so I think a better, or at least a quieter, approach might have been taken. But I liked the effect of the drumming, rain sticks, flutes, and singing. As far as the adaptation, I think it was wonderful, but personally, I’m a huge fan of the magic.

I think all the performers were successful. I especially liked the scenes with Caliban, Stefano, and Trinculo. They all knew exactly what they were fighting for (to kill Prospero, to drunkenly become Queen of the island, to get through this alive) and stuck to those goals; they were not only believable, but they made strong choices, like quivering in fear under a broken umbrella, and not being afraid to find themselves in actions or positions that, outside the theatre, might seem very odd. The three connected very well, too, which is what drew me to them the most. They were always with each other and never seemed to break focus, always listening and reacting, almost like they were hearing and saying the words for the first time.