Tim.....the Satanist

Here is the video of Tim....the Satanist that I promised you! This was one of my favorite parts in the play! I love the kid that plays Tim...the Satanist, he is a very talented actor and a really fun person named Will Parrott! Oh, and this is a video that I stole from Mitch, by the way so he gets credit for it! Though, this one was filmed by Aubrey! The first girl to speak is Jenna who played the dumb blond character....even though she's a very smart and hilarious girl. George is the curly haired guy and he is super sweet and funny! I'm in the background and give Tim...the Satanist his Bacardi and coke! So, here it is!

Pub Comedy!

Last week was absolutely crazy and AMAZINGLY fun!!! March 20-22 was my show! The show was called Pub Comedy and was student written and student produced and so very funny! I played a bartender in the pub named Alice. Alice is the nice girl in the pub and the love interest of the main character. The whole show was set in a pub and had several plot lines and many fantasy sequences. I've included pictures of the whole cast a crew and two of my favorite parts of the play which were a fight between a cowboy and a pirate and the character of Tim the Satanist. I will put up a video of Tim the Satanist that will explain it better than I ever could. (The way that casting turned out all the nice characters in the show had curly hair and all the mean people had strait hair....so on the last night we straightened the curly haired people's hair, and tried to curl the straight haired people, which is why my hair is straight in these pictures.) The show was really wonderful, but the best part was all the fun people I met by doing it! Everyone was so much fun to work with and so dang funny! My experience here would have been really different without this show. And I have made so many wonderful friends through it who have really made this experience so much richer and for that, I am very grateful! It is also nice to know that you can go thousands of miles away and still find your niche. I hang out with theater kids here and feel very much at home, like I'm at the theater department back at UT....only everyone is speaking with a British accent!

Mom's Mark

My mom left yesterday and it was really hard to see her go because it was so WONDERFUL to have her here! Just like with Chelsea, it was so nice to have someone from home here who could meet all my friends! I have heard one of the hardest things about studying abroad is that once you go home people tire easily of hearing too much about your time there because they can't connect with your stories very well. I think that having my friends and mom come visit me will help so much with that problem! But mom really made an impression on everyone and everyone really appreciated having a mother around! She came to rehearsal and performances with me every night she was here and was so helpful, she got a special thank you in the program! Also, two of the guys from my play have a radio show every week and they gave her a shout out and thanked her for helping with the show and played Stacy's Mom in her honor!!! It was awesome! I was very grateful that she could be here for my show, it was a real treat! And besides being awesome behind stage, she introduced tequila to my friends in England. I have included a picture of her explaining the beauty of tequila to Mitch and a picture of Aubrey taking her first shot of tequila! It was amazing to have her here!!! I miss her very much but Emily booked her tickets to see me today and Tonya and Dad might be coming later on, so it has really helped to have that on the horizon! Also, Carrie Branch come to visit this week!!!

Tomorrow I am performing my group performance piece for physical theater. I am a little nervous, but also excited to see everyone else's work and be done with that part of the class! Then on Wednesday I have my last class of the term! I can't believe I'm done with classes already!!! Then Wednesday night Mitch and I are going to see Speed The Play, which is a David Mamet play starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum! I'm so excited!!! Well, I had better get some sleep before my performance tomorrow! I miss you all and I will post some pics of my play soon!

I DO NOT HAVE SPOO!!!

I love living on campus!!! After living off campus last year I forgot how much fun it is to have a bunch of college kids crammed into one building! The other night Mom and I were hanging out in my room not doing much and Mitch and Aubrey came bursting in and we talked for a hour or so about life! It was wonderful! Then, we decided to play a round or two of spoons! Lena, Anna, and Daniel all joined in and we had a wonderful night playing spoons! Mitch was, in fact, the winner because he didn't loose a single round! But everyone had fun and we got pretty silly!
Then, I brought down my i-pod speakers and, as is our usual practice at 1 in the morning, we had a dance party! Mom taught everyone "Blue Commode Water", which is an incredible song written by an old friend of hers. I've included a video of Respect for your viewing pleasure!!! Just goes to show you, all you need is a deck of cards and some spoons to have a great night!

Sushi Night

This post has been a long time coming. Sushi Night actually happened about 2 weeks ago but with all of the visitors, I have had little time to blog because we've been on adventures! But while Chelsea was here she made us sushi and, let me tell you, it was so awesome! It had been far too long since I had sushi and we had so much we couldn't finish it all! Not only was the sushi AMAZING, the process of making it was so much fun! It took almost 2 hours to make the sushi and we (Aubrey, Mitch, Chelsea, and I) had so much fun listening to music and dancing around while we waited
rice to be done. Then everyone was involved in making the sushi in some way, as you can see by the lovely picture of Mitch! It was a night of great friends and great food! It was really nice to have Chelsea here and sushi night was a perfect example of the many nights of fun we had while she was here!
In other news, MY MOM IS HERE NOW!!! When she arrived I'm pretty sure the whole court heard me yelling "MOM'S HERE!". I will try to blog soon about our adventures. Yesterday we went to Whistable but it was rainy and we didn't do much but walk around eat at a yummy cafe. I will take more pictures in the future! It is really nice to have my mom here, and everyone is excited about having a mom in our court. Moms are wonderful to have around!

The Day I Was in Harry Potter!

A lot has happened for me in the last week. Chelsea came to visit me and it was so wonderful to have her here! You forget how nice it is to have a rhythm and a history with someone when you're surrounded by new people, and even though I have had a wonderful time meeting new friends, it was nice to have an old friend here! Besides traveling all over Kent (the county my town is in) we had a lot of fun cooking at home and hanging out in Woody's (the pub for my housing area). Chelsea's flight left early Saturday morning so we spent the night in a hotel on Friday night and then I stayed in London all day Saturday because Mitch and I were going to see Les Mis that night. So Mitch and I were planning on wandering around London for most of the day on Saturday and our first order of business was to visit the Globe theater because it is an amazing place! On our way to the theater we noticed a big group of people looking at a helicopter that was flying over the River Thames but we didn't really know what was going on and the Globe called to us so we walked on past this curious event. On our way back though we had to walk back over the Millennium Bridge but when we got to the foot of the bridge it was blocked off and there were camera crews. We decided to stop and watch for a little while in hopes of seeing someone famous! As we were looking around we saw our first clue: A director's chair with the name David Yeats. Now, most people would not know what that means, but Mitch happens to be a huge Harry Potter movie fan and he knew that David Yeats directed the last Harry Potter movie and is supposed to be directing the 6th Harry Potter movie. We still weren't sure if that's what was going on but our we knew we had found something really exciting. Next we found a sign which said that they were filming on this bridge today and if you didn't want to be in a motion picture you shouldn't walk on the bridge. Well....OF COURSE WE WANT TO BE IN A MOTION PICTURE! So we decided to walk across the bridge and on our way we saw a man holding a boom mic and he was wearing a badge that said HP6....my heart skipped a beat....could it be? Were they really filming for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince? We couldn't believe it...but what else could HP6 stand for?!?!? So we walked across the bridge and then walked back again! We decided to get a picture of the director's chair to commemorate the moment! When we looked at his chair there was a filming schedule laying in it and we stealthily tried to read what they were filming....at the top of the schedule were the words: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!!!!! WHAT?!?!?!? You should have seen us....we couldn't contain our excitement. It was too much! So we decided to walk across the bridge like 6 more times to make it into as many frames as possible! We're hoping to give them no choice but to use our footage! So, this November look for us in HARRY POTTER!!!!! Mitch was wearing a bright orange hat and it will be in the scene with a bridge! OMG!!!! The pictures of our faces really captures the moment cause we were just so excited we didn't know what to with ourselves....I still can't believe it totally! Well...no other news I have can compare to that so I will leave you to be jealous! I miss you all very much!

Who's Who 2

Here are some more faces to go with all the names!!! I miss you all very much!

Who's Who

I thought I would create a reference for everyone so that you could match up the faces I mention with a name! I've included pictures of most of the people I've mentioned to people on the phone or in my blog previously! So here they are!!!

The Day the Internet Died!

Last night the internet in Willows Court (where I live) died for the night and it as really surprising how much we freaked out about it. We (Mitch, Daniel, Aubrey and I) were trying to think of things to do and we kept coming back to things that had to do with the internet like showing each other You Tube videos and pictures from home. But eventually we got the hang of it and it was one of the most fun nights I've had here! Aubrey and I made up a recipe for Macaroni and Cheese (since we couldn't look one up online) and it turned out really nicely! Then we sat around and talked for about an hour and listened to music (thanks Mom and Doug for the speakers!) and then we started to go a little stir crazy. Mitch made himself a headdress out of a scarf and took artsy pictures like this beautiful one of Aubrey! When we got too stir crazy we decided to take a trip to the library cause Daniel had to do something online and the rest of us wanted to check our e-mail.....I know, I know, we caved...but it was a good thing that we went cause that field trip to the library was where most of the fun happened! The wind was an amazing warm wind and we frolicked in it for a bit and on the way back we found an empty parking lot! We danced in the parking lot and ran free and twirled feeling the wind in our hair! It was so much fun! I've included a picture of Mitch letting the wind catch him! Its pretty easy to see where they got the idea of Mary Poppins flying with her umbrella cause the wind is probably strong enough to carry a grown woman here! When we made it home again we had a dance party in Aubrey's room then we popped some popcorn and watched a few episodes of Friends to wind the night down! It was just a night of good friends finding fun things to do and I loved every minute of it!!!