The Third List

For those of you who have been gripping your computer screens for the past 3 days, I'm sorry. 

It will happen again.

As some of you may know, I am located not only in one of the most beautiful college towns in the world, but I am also located with the snazzy Juli Del Prete. She has a blog, too, that you may enjoy if you find snazz in mine. It's called http://you-knighted.blogspot.co.uk/. That's right, for the cheap price of ten minutes you can get 2 blogs in one. That's blogspot.com, everyone. 

After 2 days of classes, I now know these things:

1. Henry Godinez is so right. In so many ways, he is so right. 

2.  When Henry is 80, he will still look very young. John Gorrie is proof of this. 

3. I am literally drooling, hyper, suppressing-screams obsessed with Chekhov. 

3b. I actually did learn something in that horrible Slavic Chekhov class in the Winter.

3c. Off of 1 and 3b, thank you Northwestern. I don't think I realized I was learning, but good job.

4. It's hard to have 3c on my plate. Some people don't. Not in a mean way, but... thank you, people, students and faculty, at Northwestern.

5. THE WATER HERE SUCKS.

6. Even when in Oxford, I will still refuse to pay for Legally Blonde. 

6b. (Until it's $5. Chill out.)

7. When doing 3 Sisters, Cherry Orchard, and Midsummer Night's Dream, there are a couple of options: Irena, Ania, Hermia, amongst some more interesting stretches. It will always be Irena.

(We're still waiting on Midsummer.)

8. I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH CHEKHOV.

9. Deer are really peaceful.

10. People should not hunt deer.

11. I am embarrassed to have a deer head hanging on my wall in Ohio.

12. No matter where I go, people always immediately know I hate Ohio.

13. It's kind of a joke.

14. The slate for my "Ohio" monologue is always funny because of that.

15. Brits don't eat peanut butter?

16. Plums are in dining hall fruit baskets in England.

17.  A new goal in life is to try all of the Cadbury flavors.

18. Stupid people are funny, and it's OK to laugh at them.

19. I was told that by a teacher, so stop yelling at me.

20. Apparently playing Masha in The Seagull is a dream role of mine. I said it.

21. (Still on the Chekhov thing.)

22. The School House? Rocks. Juli, a wonderful boy in our group named Travis, and two lovely people named Maggie and Gabe are annexed in a secluded cloister of apartment-like little rooms off Longwall Street, apart from Magdalen College. It has been said that this is where they put the unwanted individuals all throughout history. We don't have a tea kettle. They did not change our towels. My chair has a hole in it. BUT, after much chagrin in procuring tea kettles for the School House, I found out we have a kitchen. There are about 100 beer and Pimms bottles in its recycling, but it is there. The School House rocks. (so little.)

23. There is a CLASSY classy but also slightly skanky club named COPA. As in Copa Cabana. We will see.

24. BADA secretly knows who trains together. They put all of the same-acting-class pairs in the same groups! Dawns are together, Sandras are together, and Cindys!! And then I'm randomly tagged on to the Cindy pair. Interesting.

25. Pimms is good. Put cucumbers in it! (?)

26. Always have a modern monologue ready to go.

27. NEVER pack for summer weather in England.

28. Alison Mahoney: Juli loves sheep, too.

I've really learned nothing else in my classes yet. This is all they teach us. Modern, Shakespeare, physical improv, and voice, Audition Techniques to come... eh, maybe I'll learn something soon. ;)

PS For any previous BADAs who care, here are my teachers.

Modern- John Gorrie

Shakes- Irina Brown (amazingly Russian)

Voice- Andrew Wade

Physical Theatre- Mick Barnfather, y'all

Audition Tech- Leo Wringer

Beautiful. 

Almost as beautiful as the deer.