The Beginning of my summer in parts: Part 1, The End

So, I officially graduated Public School on June 27th, 2011. I arrived just a tad late for the ceremony because of traffic and my mom was rushing to do my nails. But overall, it was lovely. I had a great time at the party afterward and everyone looked stunning!

Having my time at Claude Watson end so soon felt really weird.

March 9th, 2012

Okay, so, I never really got to writing out my whole summer...

I did have a great summer. I went to Montreal to visit my aunt, I went to Jack Layton's "shrine" and huge message board at City Hall, and I went to Comic Con!

Comic Con was awesome, as usual, and I met more cool people! I met Felicia Day, dressed as Penny from "Dr. Horrible", and Nicholas Brendon's twin brother Kelly. That was weird, but he's a really nice guy who works in Set Decorating. I also met a girl from Jamaica, Iowa who loves Canadians! She said "Oh my gosh, do you the Canada song?" I said "No. There's a Canada song?" Apparently there are Canada fan songs like "Do You Want To Be Canadian?" and "Canadian, please". Who knew! And then I met Valerie Lapomme, aka Sexy Nerd Girl on the internet. She's also from Toronto, so we bonded over that. Comic Con, as always, was eventful last summer, and I think we spent even more money than before...

At the end of the summer, my friend dragged me out to the Selena Gomez concert. It was actually a pretty good show. She has a nice voice and it was fun to see a swarm of little girls in pink. I kind of felt out of place with my "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" t-shirt.

All of this was fun until I started High School. Then I entered a new kind of fun...

-Alie

Until I get back into routine...

If you haven't noticed, it's been a long time since I last wrote. You may have also noticed that there is a new sidebar at the top of the webpage with my sets from Polyvore. They are also things that I have been up to, and you can see what I've been really obsessed with lately. (for example, Animal by Neon Trees and Sheldon and Amy!!!!)

So, until I get back into the swing of things, like writing, check out the new additions to the blog. It's always nice to know that people care about what I have to say, so please comment when you can.

11 days 'til I graduate from grade 8!!! That'll be a good story to share.

Ta-ta for now!

-Alie

Alie Rutty Singing "When Will My Life Begin?" from Tangled

Hello! This is my youtube video.

Enjoy!

-Alie

Happy March!

Happy March everyone! On Saturday, I performed at the Annex Live with some students from my voice studio. It was a lot of fun! Here are some photos from the show:

This is me singing "When Will My Life Begin" from Tangled.

This is me and my friend Cedrine singing "With A Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles.

This is me singing "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker" by Sandi Thom.

This is the whole crew singing "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles, and spreading the love into the crowd. (we gave out flowers)

Youtube Videos will be posted shortly.

-Alie

I got into ESA!!

Yay! I got into my dream high school!!! Just though you might want to know...

-Alie

Assassins

Two weeks ago, I saw the wonderful musical called "Assassins". I had heard great things about the show in the paper, and by my voice teacher. The day I saw the show, my voice teacher raved about it and I didn't have any homework, so my mom decided to take me on a whim. We didn't even know if we could get tickets or not on the day of, so we went to the theatre an hour early to see if there were any tickets available. Luckily, there were, and we hadn't wasted a drive down to Queen Street.

The show had a very interesting plotline. Basically, it's made up of bunch of little skits of all of the assassins who either killed or tried to kill the presidents of the United States. But it wasn't just how they killed them, it was also their reasons why. It seemed like most of their situations had nothing to even do with the presidents. Anyway, looking in perspective, it seems like the U.S. has had so many assassinations, and they still have never really improved their security from Abe Lincoln to Ronald Reagan. Anyway, overall a highly recommended musical to go see when you have a chance.

After the show, my mom and I rode the bus and chatted with two of the actors. Here's an interview with one of the actors I met, and his views of the show.

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Sondheims_Assassins_returns_to_Toronto-9609.aspx

-Alie

Snow Day!!

It's been exactly a month since my last post. I had a feeling I wouldn't get to writing at any time in January just because of all the craziness.

I had my audition for ESA (Etobicoke School of the Arts) on the 21st and it went super well. I got to the school five minutes before my drama audition, and I was really stressed. Although, my mom was more stressed than me. She was yelling at my dad in the car. Luckily, they were running a little behind schedule, and there were two people before me to go when I got to my area. The guy at the registration booth was also really nice. He told me to relax and breathe. The audition itself went really well considering I almost lost my voice before hand. I did half of my monologue and did a longer improvisation. They saw in my application that I had done the play "Noises Off", so they realized that I like physical comedy. After that, I wrote my essay which didn't take me that long. And then I went to my dance audition for Musical Theatre. I saw a whole bunch of people I knew, so I was really comfortable. At last, I did my highly anticipated Musical Theatre vocal audition. The audition people were really nice, as usual. They were really into the songs I sang, they laughed and had wide-eyed expressions. The pianist also knew "My Party Dress", the song I sang. And NO ONE knows that song! I was so happy because he didn't need to figure it out at first. Anyway, at the end of the day, I went home with so much energy. It was a great experience.

Today is an official TDSB snow day!! The news has been talking about this big snow storm for a whole week. The best word I've heard for it is a "Snowpocalypse". Looking out the window today at it, it doesn't look like much. But it's supposed to be around 40cm by the end of the day.

I better go, it's lunchtime.

-Alie

Happy New Year!!

Yeah, my first post of 2011!I hope everyone had a great holiday!

Now it's back to reality tomorrow when I go back to school. Oh, I'm so excited to get back to homework, stress, lack of sleep, and did I mention homework? (okay, you do know that was sarcasm, right?) Anyway, not much to say really. I'm not in the mood to talk too much. I'll (hopefully) be not too busy and I'll tell you all my amazing stories and adventures. Filled with pictures and dialogue and the whole nine yards!

Enjoy getting back to all your normal schedules again!

-Alie