Long time, no post! Well, the weeks are just a-flyin’ by here in U World, but the days are long and exhausting. I have been battling a little cold for the last few days and it is taking its toll on my body and brain. Hopefully the overdoses of vitamin C I have taken every day will give my immune system a leg up on this thing, but for now, I suppose I have to just suffer through it!
And I have been suffering. I told you about how awful my voice lesson was yesterday, right? It was awful. And my acting class is so frustrating right now. We aren’t doing any real acting, just those silent improv études. Which is fine, and educational, and I know it probably counts as real acting. But everyone else is so funny and so good at physicality, and you know those are the two things I can’t do. All the girls are just like you. They are skinny and gorgeous and they can be all cute and hilarious and make the audience laugh and then turn around and cry on command and make the audience cry. Just like you. (Except the part where you are an also an awesome human being and my best friend, of course!) Anyway, I am feeling super inadequate in both the singing and acting departments. It would be so easy to give up right now, but I refuse! Because I love theatre, I absolutely love it, and I know it’s what I’m supposed to be doing right now. Macbeth makes me feel a little better, although I am not doing incredible things at rehearsal right now either. But being there at least reminds me of why I love theatre, and reminds me that I don’t totally suck at everything.
My other classes are amazing, though, and my suitemates and I just had a really nice chat until midnight the other night. We are finally starting to bond, yay! Oh and my Zumba instructor came over to me specifically and told me that I did really well in class this morning. Which is exciting, because you know me and dancing… Haha. And tomorrow I get to go shopping with my mommy! I don’t really love shopping, but I love my mommy, so it’ll be fun.
Other than that… not much is going on in my life, I guess! I am about halfway done writing your Clair de Lune/Moon River medley, which will be gorgeous. And I have been writing some film score type stuff too, and practicing piano a lot. I’m learning some gorgeous Chopin and Rachmaninoff pieces, and some pop music on the side. My roommate even brought a duet and we’ve been playing it together! It’s easy to practice piano because my keyboard has headphones, but I really need to figure out a way to practice voice without bugging my suitemates, otherwise I’ll keep having terrible voice lessons! Gah! Well, hopefully I’ll figure something out soon. I also have to learn guitar for Macbeth, so I guess I will just have lots and lots of music in my life for a while… that’s fine with me!
I miss you so much!! Break a leg at all of your auditions- I love you and hopefully I’ll see you again soon!
Your sister forever,
Kate
P.S. I didn't have any new college pictures, but I drew some Harry Potter sketches, and since we went to the movie together, I figured I would show you :) they aren't very good and I have fixed them up some since I took the picture, but... oh well!
