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| moana (profile) wrote, on 2-17-2006 at 1:45pm | |
| Music: The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun Subject: This past weekend. |
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Tuesday was the opening for the matinee I've been rehearsing for since last semester, and all in all, I was pleased. The first show had some blunders in it from both my costar and I while the second show went very smoothly. Except at the end, when he started to cry, I mean actually real-life cry, and I nearly panicked. Nearly. One of the judges (since this is part of the Troupe Fortnight Competition) came to both shows, and then told my director to send me to his office immediately after the show. He then spent half an hour persuading me to join his cast for a "highly professional rendition of 'Blood Wedding'." I had to decline. I'm busy enough with classes and I'm directing a full-length production. I really must say no. He also told me, however, that I was nominated for "best actress". So yay. Thursday morning, I was at the University of Wollongong at 9am to start the Wollongong Cup Public Speaking Competition 2006, an inter-college competition. I participated in the impromptu category, just to give myself another chance since I'm still somewhat sore about getting third in forensics last year (damn! was it really last year?). So I did. And I was the only AUD representitive that made it to finals. We were all at the awards ceremony, with no idea about who had won what, and cheered insanely for three people that had come in second in oratory and story-telling and one that had come in third in radio, my former-director no less. When impromptu came up, I waited for them to call out third: Wollongong. Second place. I was, at this point, nervous for the first time all day. What if I didn't even qualify in the top three? Second place, the American University- My team went nuts, cheering and clapping! The American University in Sharjah. Oh. Now I was really depressed. And then...     First place. American University in Dubai. And the team went nuts. Me? I stood up, threw my arms up into the air and shouted out, "Thank you!" My prize was a six month membership at the KV "Shapes" gym and ten sessions with a personal trainer. It was, genuinely, one of the greatest feelings. Now my obsessive mind can finally let it go. But there was little time to celebrate. Already running late, I rushed back to AUD campus and threw on some jeans and a t-shirt (the competition required "formal attire") so that I could go downstairs and help the crew get ready for the Assembly, a bi-weekly concert featuring new bands. Antifrat, a band consisting of me roommate and some good friends, was opening, and believe me we were all excited. Nervous, too. And my, how they were beautiful.    You can check out some of the reviews and criticisms of the gig in general at http://www.phride.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12253 - remember to look for Antifrat! *waves pom poms* After the gig cleaned up at 10-ish, it took us all an hour to carry the equipment back to the jam room on the third floor of the engineering building, since the building had been locked and no one found the time to unlock it for us. *sigh* After a brief celebration at one of the guys' house, I came home to a movie and a pizza, exhausted and happy. In other news, I'm not going to be updating my woohu much from now on, since I haven't been for a while and I think if you really want to know how I'm doing, you should call, email or catch me online. That and, it's getting nearly impossible to even see woohu at all with this stupid internet connection. So for now, *waves* miss me much eh? |
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guajiragoddess | 02-17-06 8:31pm i swear, i'll respond to this accordingly as soon as I can organize all my thoughts! just so you know, there were a lot of "yay!"s and "whoa!"s and all that good stuff. congrats congrats.
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cowboy67 | 02-21-06 7:12pm first of all, congratulations on 1st place! that's so awesome. second of all, how the hayell do you manage all of this? some people are just cut out for it, i guess. i admire you for it. hope you're having a fabulous time ;-) |