School Registration

 Today I FINALLY headed over to school for registration and a brief intro. It was so weird being in that new school situation again. We're all standing around awkwardly waiting to be told what to do. You will be sitting next to someone in an auditorium situation, waiting for further direction, and you sort of look around awkwardly knowing that the person next to you is doing the same. So who speaks first? If we happen to make eye contact, then I will say something. Ugh meeting new people...so not easy. I met a few people but spent most of the morning with an American. Go figure. There are only 35 people in my program and even that will be broken into two and I will end up with about 17 in my class but most of it will be made up of internships.

APPLIED THEATRE

For those of you who don't know I am studying a specific type of theatre called "Applied Theatre." I say educational theatre to make it easier when telling people what I'm studying, but it's a lot more than simply teaching theatre and drama. An example of Applied Theatre would be that of using theatre to educate or to give a voice to an oppressed community. There are countless ways to use this form of theatre. My year will consist of discovering how I can use the power of theatre to educate and in what field I can use this skill. I'm seeking my career that excites me every single day. I have a passion for other fields but this is one of them as well and I'm looking to see where it brings me. I'm looking forward to sharing that journey through my blog with my placements. I'm telling you now that I so desperately want to not only work in a school but on a larger level of working in the educational programming department of the BBC or The Royal Shakespeare Company. I would love to experience the large and small of this field. And that is a little bit of insight into my program.

BARTENDING

I just want to keep updating you on my miserable bartending skills. Last night was the test of the Shandy and the Tops. Again, lemonade here is sort of a lemon lime soda. A Shandy, which I don't is a thing in a America, is a pint of half beer half lemonade. While Tops is a pint of beer with a little lemonade at the top. Well when this group of 20 from a local business came in after work and started ordering Shandies and Tops...I looked at them trying to remember what Matt had taught me. I didn't realize I must have been staring at them for a good 20 seconds trying to recall...looking like an idiot. They totally called me out on it AND criticized my technique of failing to put the lemonade in first. I was SO embarrassed. I've seriously been trying to play this whole bartender thing cool. I'm a total newb. Sort of comical. Oh ya and I also had a bunch of 14 year old boys hitting on me while the receptionist had every ADULT man who walked in giving her their number. I'm so cool.

SAD DAY FOR APPLE

It was a sad today when we found out that Steve Jobs had passed away. He was an incredible innovator and has brought so much to the world of technology. He has actually dominated the technological world and is an amazing business man. My dad taught me a lot about Steve Jobs as a business man and innovator. I spoke to my dad tonight about the loss and I just wanted to quickly end this blog post with an inspirational old commercial Steve created but was never aired that my dad told me to watch. Steve was one of those great people in history that took risks and for that he will always be remembered. Thank you Steve. Signing off from my Apple MacBook Pro.