don't get too excited

So I was planning to write a blog post today about the result of the "whose play is going to Sears?" issue, but we didn't find out today, so no post about that.
uhm, uhm...
go look at my friend's new vlog!
that should keep you satisfied till tomorrow. :) (if it doesn't, I'm sorry, but there are no time refunds. :P )

oh and I'm applying to the Explore program, so fingers crossed I'll get to go to Quebec next year! :)

My Narrator Performance

This is it. This Thursday, we perform the play we've been working on for 2 months. Are we going to pull it off? I have no idea. Will we go on to Sears? maybe not. Will it be awesome? Yes. :)

So, if you know me and are in the area where I live, come to the theatre on main st. at 7:30 to see two amazing shows that have a one in three chance at being my high school's contribution to the Sear's Drama Festival 2011. Tickets cost $10 at the door, and are half price the next night, if you want to come see the other two shows that take place on friday night, same time, same place.

Hope to seem some familiar faces there! :)

I'll be standing in that spotlight on Thursday. :P

oh and here's a link to a comic that kinda sums up the play I'm in. I'm the narrator/interior monologue of the girl.

Favourite Things (cont.)

     Alright, before I continue my list of favourite things, I'd like to talk about my day. I'm writing this now because I have two ISPs* today in addition to my spare!! so I only had to go to one class today! And that was English media, and most of the people I don't like weren't there today! It was great fun. :P and I talked with my teacher about how unfair my English 3U teacher has been with projects, and she completely agreed. :) so yeah today has been great.
     Tomorrow is Semi Formal and I'm totally psyched for it. :) I get to wear this pretty dress my mum bought for me last weekend, and go and dance and hang out with my friends! It will be the first high school dance I've ever been to. Which is a little pathetic, but also not in a way, as I've had better things to do with my time than waste money on silly dances. This and Prom will probably be the only high school dances I ever go to, but I'm fine with that. :)

*a spare period that is given to students when the teacher is absent from class, but they're only allowed for gr. 11 and 12 students.

On to the favourites list!

6. Favourite Book (that I've read recently)
     Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall and Lisa Pulitzer
     This book is about Ellisa Wall's life in the FLDS church, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of the oppressive church and lifestyle. It's a heart-wrenching true story, but also very empowering. I think everyone should give it a read and learn more about the FLDS church and the terrible things that happen to children in that community, so we can try to stop it.

7. Favourite Food
     Perogies or Noodle-wrapped shrimp
     Perogies are mashed potato and cheese wrapped in a pasta sort of dough and boiled. They are DELICIOUS, especially when dipped in sour cream. side, but soft and scrumptious on the inside.
     Noodle-wrapped shrimp are so much better than regular shrimp. They're hard and crunchy on the outside, but soft and scrumptious on the inside.

OM NOM NOM!

Delicious!

8. Favourite Subject in School
     Chemistry/French
     I love doing experiments and watching reactions between acids and elements. It amazes me how something can catch on fire just by touching another substance like water. It's great! Oh and the gummy bear experiment that our teacher showed us last year was amazing! You can watch a video of it here. You melt potassium chlorate and then drop in a gummy bear and watch what happens! :) I love chemistry because all of the work is pretty straight forward. You watch stuff happen, and explain why it happened. It's pretty simple. I'm really good at memorizing things, so that also helps with my love of Chemistry.
     My love of French class is rather obvious to anyone who knows me well. I LOVE the French language. With a passion. It's just so beautiful and hypnotizing. I am good at writing and understanding some French. I still have a lot to learn, and I'm very eager to learn it (as nerdy as that sounds). I am (hopefully) going on a trip to Quebec this July to do the Explore program, and I'm really excited for it. :D

9. Favourite Drink
     Coffee
     I love the smell, the taste, everything about it. It has to be made right though, otherwise it just tastes like hot water. It helps get me up in the morning and act like a regular person.

10. Favourite Colour
     Purple
     Not sure why, it just always has been. I have many purple clothes, and I think it looks quite good on me. :)

My Favourite Things (part 1)

1. Favourite Movie
Juno
I love this movie. It's a heart-warming movie about a teen mom who finds adoptive parents for her baby, tries to get back together with the baby-daddy, and keep up with school. It's a cute little movie, and I could watch it over and over again forever. It also has my favourite actress of all time, Ellen Page. She is amazing.

2. Favourite T.V. Show (as of this year)
The Office
A witty, satirical look at office life, with some romance and bigotry thrown in there too. My favourite characters are definitely Jim and Pam, with Kelly and Ryan coming at a close second. I only just starting watching this show a month ago as it has been heavily recommended to me by my friend Curtis.

3. Favourite Band/Artist (by amount of songs I like by them)
Feist/Regina Spektor
They are both amazing indy-sounding musicians, and I love almost all of their songs. Regina's songs always make me happy or sad depending on whether I'm listening to the lyrics or not. Her lyrics are amazing if you listen to and analyze them. Feist will always be one of my favourite artists, and if you want to know why, look at this post.

4. Favourite Smell
Freshly-baked bread or other baked goods
This smell is sooo good. My mum makes the best baked goods, and she makes them probably once every month at least, more if it's Christmas time. It reminds me of my childhood, hugging my mum, and feeling secure and at home. :)

5. Favourite Place
Blyth Festival Theatre Stage/Phillips Studio
These are the places where I've had the best times of my life. Acting, goofing around, haunting and more. I hope to one day act on the Blyth Theatre stage as a part of the Summer Festival.

UPDATE: Guess what??!! My hope of acting on the Blyth Festival Stage is coming true!! Next summer, Alligator Tears is going to perform on the Main Stage! :D so excited!

That's it for now. Tune in, in a few days to read more of my favourite things. :)

The Big Fight

Yesterday, my sister and I got into a big fight about the biggest thing we disagree upon: her boyfriend.

Now, you have to understand that me and my sister have shared a room since we were little. We're really close. We talk about almost everything. All of this started to slow down 2 years ago when she started dated this ugly guy who was kind of a jerk. They're still dating now.

I have never understood what she saw in him, and maybe I never will. I always looked up to my sister, and thought her to be a strong, independent woman, who didn't want or need a man to "complete" her. And yet, she fell prey to this guy's flattering comments and attention. Also, he is always showing up at my house unannounced and calling at least once a day. This infuriated me, as I felt he was taking my sister away from, and as if he was invading my personal space. Because of this, I began to hate him. Passionately. I would glare at him, make snide comments about him to my sister and parents, and beg my parents to not let my sister date him. None of this made my sister break up with him, and it only made our bond crack and crumble under the pressure of my hate, and Becca trying to ignore the problem, or taking his side and being mean to me. I used to dream up scenarios of them breaking up, or him hurting my sister in some way that would make her realize he was not the guy for her. It was terrible, mean, and hateful. But I just wouldn't come around. At one point I started to hide his shoes. He seemed to not notice, or at least he or Becca never said anything about it. One day, I was leaving for school and Becca was going to walk with me for the first time in quite a while. All of a sudden, who should show up, but my nemesis. He was driving her to school. She was tstill getting ready so I got my stuff on and angrily walked out the door. As I put on my shoes, I saw his ugly shoes and the hate bubbled over. I grabbed them and threw them in the trashcan outside the door, then proceeded to walk to school. On my walk I realized this was childish and stupid, but I didn't care. In my mind, he was stealing my sister, so I put his shoes where I thought they (and him) belonged. My sister later found me in a hallway at school, her hand in his, and bitched me out, calling me immature and a brat. He finally dragged her away, still yelling, and my face burning with shame and embarrassment.

So yesterday, we finally had it all out. She yelled at me with my mom standing there, telling me to respond, but not defending me. I was silently sobbing, and had decided it was best not to say anything or even look at her. Before this blew up, she had called me fat and hit me across the face. I couldn't believe my mother was doing nothing. Finally my mum stepped up and told my sister something (I thought) I had told her in confidence. She told my sister that I thought it wasn't just her boyfriend that I hated, it was all outsiders who arrived unannounced at our house because I was unsure of how to respond to them. I finally broke down and told her that I already felt insecure and unsure of how to act around normal people at school, and home was my escape. By invading our house, her boyfriend was making me feel as if I couldn't be myself or relax. I had to put on an act of someone I wasn't, just to benefit this intruder.

We got out pretty much everything we needed to, and I apologized and promised to be nicer to her boyfriend. Then we hugged and she accidentally grabbed my boob, which made us both laugh. :)

I'm really glad this happened, and hopefully it makes our bond stronger.

Wicked field trip and catching up

Yesterday I went on a field trip with some fellow drama geeks, to Toronto to see Wicked. We had supper at the Eaton Center and then went to the Canon Theatre to see the show. There are not enough words in this world to describe how amazing it was. Even though we had kinda crappy seats, I still had an amazing time and the technical effects were AWESOME. There was this dragon head and torso and wings at the top of the stage and it moved and blew out smoke occasionally. There was also the Wizard's metal head contraption that moved and lit up and was generally freaky amazing. :) I'll try to find pics of them later.
     The singing was fantastic, although everyone was a bit off at one point or another. It didn't matter though, because the rest of the time they were fantastic. I have so much respect for all the actors, dancers and singers in the show. They were great. :)
    At the end of the show we gave them a standing ovation (they totally deserved it) and then the actress who played Galinda asked us to sit down. She then asked us to donate to an organization that is researching cures for AIDS and to a fund that helps out people in the theatre business. I gave all the money that was left in my wallet.
     So basically, last night was amazing. Today, however, was not.
     We got home from Wicked at 1:30am, but I didn't get home until 2 am because my brother was having car troubles and it took a while for him to come get me. So of course, I was tired, frustrated, and freezing, and started bawling my eyes out for no reason. Anyways, when I finally got home, I fell into bed and slept until noon. I got my dad to call the school and tell them I wouldn't be there for the morning, but I forgot to set my alarm to wake me up earlier than twelve to get ready and clean out my backpack before going to school. So my dad ended up waking me up, and I rushed around shoving a sandwich down my throat and grabbing my backpack and coat. I was late for third period, but not by much, and I didn't care anyways, as it was my first time being late this year. It was nice to sit down and read for 20 minutes, and sort of relax after all that running around. But then came the shitty part of the day. First, I learned we took a bunch of notes yesterday, all of which I had to find a way to catch up on, and we had to do some definitions on our own. Then our teacher bitched at us for 20 minutes about not handing certain things in with our essay rough drafts that SHE HAD NEVER TOLD US TO HAND IN! I later learned that everyone was pissed about this. Then she only handed back 5 of the 23 rough drafts, and mine wasn't one of them.
     In Math class, we had an ISP, thank goodness, but I didn't finish all the homework, and I'm only just grasping the idea of this new graphing thing we learned.
     Then I had rehearsal which went quite well I think, at least for me and Cavan. Michelle and John are kinda sucky, and don't know their lines, but whatever.

I'm really glad I got to see Wicked, I just wish I hadn't had to miss school to see it.

UPDATE: I found pics!

Mother-fuckin' dragon

the "Wonderful" Wizard of Oz (It MOVES!)