All right, how do you run down an entire high school career and almost half a college semester in one blog post?
Y'all. This is either gonna be really short or really long. And, knowing me, it's probably gonna be real long, but I'll try to keep it short.
Let's see... I remember approximately .9482384% of freshman year in high school, and of that percentage, there's like uh 0% that I actually want to remember, so let's not talk about that. Sophomore year was pretty chill, I started getting into film, and I was like, "Yeah this film thing, I want to do this." Junior year was like, "Ayy I'm good at violin, I made All State Orchestra and I'm Secretary for our school orchestra, but this film thing is real cool, I'm good at it and I have resources cause my dad does lots of film for hobby, and this is what I want to do, because I can do it." I worked as a production assistant on my first film (it was a film made by university students, and I did that so that I would be ahead of everyone in my grade). I'm not entirely sure what I thought I wanted to major in junior year... I don't think I ever honestly wanted to be an RTF (Radio-Television-Film) MAJOR because I wanted to get a major in something that you actually need a degree for in order to get a career. So film career was what I wanted, but I knew I could get experience outside of schooling, so I didn't want to go to school for that. (This is gonna be long, I think. I thought I could keep it short. I'll try. I'll keep trying, hang in there.) Oh, also. Junior year I saw 'Newsies' on Broadway (on a trip with school orchestra to play at Carnegie Hall) and that changed my life. So hard. As soon as I got back, this is so crazy, and honestly I could talk to you TO ETERNITY AND BACK about this, and it's gonna come up a lot later, but ... as SOON as I got back from NYC, this audition call for 'The King and I' at the professional theatre in my city came out. REAL long story short, I auditioned, got in (still don't really understand how), did the show at the beginning of my senior year... which was crazy... because, you know, professional theatre, so we learned the show in two weeks, had a week of designer rehearsals, then tech week on the mainstage, then we had our performance run... seven shows a week for five weeks. It was the most brilliant, exhausting, inspiring period of my life, and, basically, now.... okay I'm gonna try to rescue any pride I have left at this point (because I thought I could keep this short and I'm gonna cheat a little and split this into two) I'm going to continue from present-day on the next post.
