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