A change is as good as a rest

I haven't updated my blog lately. If you can't tell, I'm rather bad at updating it, or giving constant attention to it rather. People ( Cough cough the May's.... ), have been telling me that I should update my blog and that it is rather boring. Well, yesterday with their help, I made the template better. So that takes care of half of what people are saying. And now I am taking care of the other half that people are saying.

I just read Jonathan and Nicole's blogs, and have been inspired to write a ton about the events in my life, but I highly doubt that it will happen. I will do my best to try anyhow. I read Tabitha's as well, but she doesn't write much. So basically, I read all the people's blogs that I follow.

So the last time I blogged was about the new year, 2010, and how I hope that it will be better than last year. Well, it isn't so new anymore; as it is September, school started today, summer is over, and we are more than halfway throughout the year. With that being said, this blog post is basically going to be about my whole year up till now. Watch out world.

So at the beginning of the year I was still in middle school and was auditioning for "Back to the 80's". It was an amazing show. Right after that I was in track, and before I knew it, school was out and summer was upon me. Oh, but before "Back to the 80's", here is an event that happened that I have to tell you about. So my friend Jessica and I were showing another one of my friends how to swing dance. Well, we were right by the water fountain in that hall and she had set her stuff down under it so she could dance. Well, as you might have guessed, she was coming out of a turn and her foot happened to slip on her things. Well she fell, even though I tried to keep her from falling. She hit her head on the water fountain and landed on her knee wrong. Now she has dislocated her right knee 10 times before, and she has always been able to just pop it back into place. So it goes without saying that she has bad knees. Well, she landed on her left knee wrong so everything would be fine, right? Well, not exactly. She dislocated that knee. So all lunch period she was screaming with pain. Everyone in the building could hear her, no joke. The paramedics came and she couldn't move. So they weren't able to take her anywhere. So right in the middle of the hall, they had to relocate her knee. She was dismissed from school for that day and didn't come to school the next day as well.

Well, of course I would feel like it was my fault, because I was the one turning her. And of course my friend feels that its her fault because she wanted us to show her how to swing dance. And we both kinda feel like if we could have done something to stop her from falling. Moved her books from where we were dancing so she wouldn't slip, dance elsewhere so she wouldn't slip, not have danced in the hall, etc. A whole list of things. And naturally everyone was telling me that it wasn't my fault. It could have happened to anyone. And they're right, it could have. But it happened to her. And that is when I gained a whole new perspective on things. Because then is when I truly realized perspective.

If something like that happens to someone, our natural response is to tell them that it's not their fault, because it isn't. But we, well, at least I didn't before that, really think about the person who we're saying it to. Yes, I thought about how they must feel awful, what they might be going through, how terrible it is that it happened to them when it could have happened to anyone, etc. But when I became the person that it happened to, my perspective changed. I knew it wasn't my fault, but I felt that it should be. I felt that I want it to be my fault, because then something could have been changed. Not that it just happened. I wanted to take responsibility for it.

Because of that, my whole viewpoint on everything basically has changed. Sometimes when I'm not thinking about it and I'm talking with my friends, I forget that. But then when I actually stop to think about it, I remember again. I'm going to use this example, because I can't think of any others right now, and like I said, I just read Jonathan's post. Rent. A movie about homosexuals and people with AIDS. I'm going to focus on the homosexual part of it. When I was watching it, I was just watching it. But then when I thought about it afterwords, I kind of wanted to not like the characters because of the homosexual part of them. Then I realized my perspective thing. And I don't know how it ties into perspective, but it makes me think differently. How they too, are people. And they too, make choices and all the jazz that everybody does. The only thing I don't like about them is that they are homosexual. I know that we are meant not to be with the same sex, and that they aren't following that. But that doesn't mean they aren't like me, a regular person, besides who they're attracted to.

Now onto my summer. This summer was more action packed than any other summer before it, well, for me at least. There was my church camp that I always go to, Legendary Lodge. It was the first year that I went into the high school camp, because I am entering high school. I got in touch with God more I felt and I knew that I do want to be Catholic. Before I was unsure, but now I'm positive :). I was also in the production, "Ezekiel saw the...What?". It was so much fun. In the production was Ali, Tabitha's friend from... Illinois? She was, ( well, is, she isn't dead ), so much fun. I had a great time with her while she was here, and spent her second to last day in Montana with her. It was the best.

While on the subject of Tabitha's friend, Tabitha lives in Bigfork, and so does the Bigfork Playhouse. They has two extra workshops this year! I loved it! The first was dance. We did ballet, jazz, modern, and tap. It wasn't really new to me, but it was fun to touch base on them during the summer, because that's when my dance studio isn't in session. We also learned some of Bob Fosse's work. That was something that I hadn't done before. It was mind-blowing. At the end of the week, like always, we did a little production. My group did a little dance put together by Holt (one of our instructors), of a range of Fosse's work to the song "I Gotcha". That must have been the most fun dance I have ever done. Then there was the regular workshop that we always do, aweome as always. Then we had an, "Advanced Theatre and Production" workshop. I wasnt that excited for it, but I figured it had to be good because all of Bigfork's things are. And then I found out we were doing a mini production of, "A West Side Story" and "Romeo and Juliet". I loved it!

Along with all the Bigfork workshops, I saw all the shows at the summer playhouse! Well, minus Sugar Babies of course. All Shook Up was my absolute favorite hands down! Like the "Advanced Theatre and Production" workshop, I wasn't that thrilled to go see it, but I knew that it would be good. Best show I've seen there yet, and that's saying something because they're all fantastic. Going along with the theatre theme I have right now, this year my school had theatre workshops. David Hashely was the main person who put it on, and he wasn't one of the directors, kinda like Brach. I was going to be an assistant director, but one of the people dropped out, so I got to be one of the directors. I thought the fourth graders, and they were so much fun to work with! I was so proud at their little production :).

Now onto sports, one of the other things that I do. Soccer started late July, and we have had four games so far. Unfortunately, we haven't won any. We should have won once, but we had two unlucky PK's and they of course got goals off of those. They would be the worst team ever if they didn't get a goal off of a PK. So they won by one because of that. We have another game tomorrow, on the first day of school, and one on Saturday. The Cougar Classic ( A series of games that my school hosts for volleyball/soccer and basketball ) is this Friday and Saturday, but only the guys get to play in it :(.

Because of soccer, I didn't get to try out for the play, "Naria, the musical" that BPCT is producing. But Congrats to all who did make it! On that note, because of basketball, I will also not be able to audition for, "The Butler Did It, Singing" and "A Christmas Carol". And because of track, I wont be able to audition for "Nifty Fifties", but I'm pretty sure I'm going to screw track so that I can do it.

So today was my first day of high school. Something that I'll never do ever again. It was pretty nice, a little confusing, but overall, not bad. I'm excited for the upcoming school year. So now I have successfully updated my blog, and told all who care to read about what has happened so far this year. I should say that is has been a good one so far, and high school is pretty awesome so far. So, until I post again? Don't hold your breath, for you will die.

2010

Happy New Year! So far it has been a wonderful year and i hope that everone has enjoyed it. There are a lot of new things to come, and a lot of old things to come. Some new things are new friends and new plays. Old things are school. I am ready to experience it at will and hope that it will be as wonderful if not more wonderful than the year 2009.

My play life!!

I haven't told you people a lot about my thespian life...so im gonna do so!
I was in the play Willy Wonka in september and i loved it! Then in october i was in Ichabod. That too was the best. And now im n Bah Humbug, Scrooges A Christmas Carol. we havent done any shows yet but im positive it'll be great! This is the first play that iv been in where adults can do(and are doing) it to! its great!!!! Im so exited for the actual Showings of it!!!!

Homework...Ugh

Homework just happens to be a drag. There really is no use for it except to drill things into your brain which you will probably never ever use for the rest of your existence. And when you get so much homework that it's more than people who are in high school have, you begin to wonder, "what did we ever do to make our teacher hate us so?" It's just not fair. Not that life is fair or anything, but homework could be an exception. But no. Teachers just have to torture us and laugh when we fail miserably...its just what they do. So that is then end of my discussion on homework for now. Fare Thee Well until next time.

Thespianism!

I love to act fyi! It's just one of the best things on this planet of ours that we call earth. It's just to awesome to be true...but im glad it is :)! But now, that we're talking about thespianism, I will tell you that I'm in an AWESOME PLAY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The wonderful play that im talking about just happens to be Willy Wonka. The very play that I have wanted to be in for years. The only problem, I have a suckish part. But who really cares as long as I have a part right? Well I hope that everyone who sees this will come!