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this'll be a big one, ooh boy.
Day 1 (thursday)
School's been cancelled. we're going to state conference anyways. we meet at the school around 10:15 and leave at 10:45. Looong bus ride. About 2 and a half hours. Not really THAT long, but long when you’re anticipating what’s coming when you get there. I’m gonna skip the boring bus ride and dive right in to what happens. So we get there around 1 or so and take our bags to the Broadview Hotel. It’s “haunted” or so we’ve heard. (we’ll talk about ghostie experiences later) we unload our bags and go to our rooms. After much confusion of whos staying with who and “is this my bag?” “where’s our room key?” “oh my god, I’ve ALREADY lost my badge!” and whatnot we get settled. I’m rooming with Barbara, Hunter, and other Christina. Oohh jeez. Quick break cause I’m shivering like hell. Okay. I’m better. Back to the story. Wait, I made no sense earlier. “shivering like hell”? hells hot. And apparently I’m stupid. Back to the STORY. We unload our.. ahem..crap. Sorry, I’m in a cussy mood. Not cause I’m pissed or anything, I’m just havin one of those days, you know? Anyhow, we go downstairs and get prepared for our walk to the convention center. Wheew. Get pumped here. Cause guess what. It’s negative something degrees with windchill. So, we go through the doors and we’re walkin. And NORMALLY if they were smart enough to UNLOCK the doors to the convention center we could go right across the street and bam we’re IN. but no. we have to walk all the way around the bloody thing. So by the time we get in it feels like we’ve walked half a freakin mile in the cold to get inside. Anyhow, we go on a tour of the place and see our lobby display. Which. Was. Gorgeous. It’s a mini stage with pretty blue little curtains. All the thespian officers are made into characters from plays. There was an insane amount of detail in this thing. The characters were hand drawn and everything. You could tell this thing would take at least like five hours to make. It was INSANE. So moving on, we go and look at everyone else’s displays(ours was defiantly the best. And no, I’m not just saying that because it was ours. I’m saying that because ours had the most effort in it, you could tell. Others were just like someone cut out pictures of the officers and stuck em on a platform. Pathetic.) then we just tour aaround some more and before you know it it’s dinner time. Now, we paid an extra fifty bucks for food on this little trip. Guess what we got for dinner. No, not a gourmet meal. Hamburgers. And Soda. That is IT. Not even a little bag of chips or anything. We were all pretty darn pissed. So I’m sitting with some people at a table (the tables were at least fancy with their white tablecloths) and we’re all just talking and then this CREEPER comes over. Okay, so he’s dressed all in black, hunched over, bald guy. And he leans over to my brother and says softly in a creeper voice.. “may I take your plate?” you should have seen my brother’s face. Hilarious. So he’s like “uh..yeah..” and then creeper guy goes away and we’re like WHAT was that? Maybe that’s what our fifty bucks paid for. Random creeper waiters who take our plates. Anyhow, the rest of dinner is pretty uneventful. Now we go back to our hotel to “freshen up” (we got real fresh by the end of the day, I tell ya. Lol) and get ready for the play. Me and Carlie, another girl, were wearing skirts to this thing. Cause your supposed to dress up for a play, you know? Theatre etiquette. Then we run like crazy people in the cold before we freeze to death. Anyhow, we go to watch the play, Almost Maine. It was great! Really sweet. It’s about a bunch of different couples and whatnot. First act is falling in love, second act is losing love. By the end of it everyone’s wanting to do this for our school play. After the play we run BACK to the hotel (or those of us crazy enough to do it) to “freshen up” some more (like I said, reaaal fresh) and get into our eighties get up for the dance. The theme of this whole thing was Rock the Stages. So me and Barbara and carlie and some other people all get decked out in our nifty stuff and run back over to the convention center. The parties craaazay. These are thespians, so none of us are like “oh I’m a shy little wall flower..” well maybe a couple, but definitely the majority was ON that dance floor. We were all going crazy and dancing it up for a few hours. I talked to a couple of random people who I didn’t’ know and whatnot, but mostly stayed with a circle of friends. By the time the dance is over its 11 30. we go back to the hotel and shower and get ready for bed and whatnot. Barbara goes to carlie’s room for a while to drop stuff off, but when she’s gone for 40 minutes we get a little concerned. So I open my door and there’s this back noise and im’ like what was that? Well, they taped our doors to make sure no one would escape. So then Charles, one of our ..hm w hat are they called? Like, supervisors? Comes and he’s like “well well well…” and I’m like “Um, we don’t’ know where Barbara is.” So he goes and finds Barbara in carlies room and brings her back and she plays all innocent Oh I didn’t know it was time for curfew! And we go to bed. The next morning is when the ghostie rumors start circulating. One of the guys was talking about how he’d put his phone on top of his bed, leave the room, come back in, and his phone would be UNDER the bed. Happened a bunch of times I guess. Another girl was looking for her face wash, asked everyone to look in their bags. No one found it. She goes into the bathroom, comes out, and her face wash is sitting on top of her suitcase. Also the lights were going on and off in that room during the night. OoooOoooOO. Crazy stuff. Anyhow, we have breakfast at the hotel (which was very NONsuckish. I havne’t had a breakfast that good in a loooong time) and go back over to the convention center. This is when our sessions start. To start with I went to a dialects class. We learned southern, texas, Midwestern (which is totally NOT how we talk, btw), british, and Brooklynese. It was pretty fun. Next class was called something like Landing the role, from highschool to Hollywood. Which was fabulous. This guy got into that new york college, I think its called the conservatory of the dramatic arts? Anyhow, this college thousands of people audition for, and then like only 180 actually get in. very exclusive. He’d gone there. He told us a lot about auditioning and also about some experiences he’d had. Like, he landed the role for this Oreo commercial. He was going to go down to florida the next day to shoot it, and his agent calls him back and said they actually replaced him with someone else. He asks why and the agent says he doesn’t know, so he calls the casting director. The casting director tells him Well, we actually chose someone who looks a lot like you, but the company really wanted someone with green eyes. … THAT’S why he didn’t get the role! And he would have gotten thirty THOUSAND dollars for this part! Its INSANE. Also, he was telling us about some weird kid he knew in college and how he’d called him up one day and was like Hey, I just got a role in a tv show! I guess it’s really popular or something. So the instructor guys’ like Oh what show? And the weird kid says GLEE! Jess, you’ll love that, I know. So if you see some red haired dude on glee, that’s who he was talking about. Next session was, DUN DUN DUN!….my one act. Uuughh. So not prepared for it. But had to do it anyways, cause Toff says. So we did it, and we didn’t have a couch on the “stage” (it was more of a little plat form set up in a small room) and so I have to change behind some wall dealio and it all works out okay. Until ben starts improving. Wheew… It still went okay though, we made it to the end. The audience liked it and laughed a lot. I got a few people telling me congratz afterwards, which was nice because usually I’ve had small roles so no ones like Ohh great job! Anyhow, after that I went to..some other workshops..none of which were as memorable. Uhm..i’m running out of time here, mom’s wanting me upstairs. I’ll hurry a little. So the rest of the day wasn’t as interesting, the show that we saw was sorta pathetic. Like middle aged people might’ve liked it, but we’re teenagers, gosh! It was better during the second act though. After that me carlie and felix all did a costume contest. We had to make a costume out of a bag of junk. I thought ours was nice. It actually ended up looking like something someone would actually wear. Unlike the other people’s newspapered legs and construction paper dresses, ours looked legit. We didn’t win though. Another school did. And get this. It’s the school that all the judges are from. TOTALLY biased. We were kinda pissed about that too. And guess who won the improv contest too? The same people. With the same biased judges. And all of them were reaching low for their stuff too! It was pathetic and unfair. Like, dead baby jokes? Please, go a little beyond that people. And they’d cuss and stuff and make sexual refrences, which was all under the DO NOT DO in the rule book. But apparently the judges thought it was FUNNY so they picked them! UNFAIR! Blehbleh..enough ranting though. It was a great day overall. Saturday we went to a few more workshops, and then that’s pretty much it. Overall, it was uber fun and I met a lot of great people. And that’s about it. I left out a lot of the interesting funny parts so I guess I’ll let you know later? Tomorrow, mayhaps. As for now, Goodnight!
~krissy