Last night home

What does someone do on their last night home before going off to college? I finished packing. I'll spend time with my family. People have been posting on my wall. Family has been calling me and texting me. I know I have an amazing adventure ahead of me. Filled with learning and exploaring what I love to do. I'm excited to finally meet in person everyone that I've been talking to on facebook since April. But it's also really hard knowing that I'm leaving behind some of my best friends and my family that I'm so close with. I'm going to miss them. And I guess it's comforting knowing that if I ever do need to come home I can easily visit. My Mom told me I have a support system and a whole group of people behind me who believe in me. It's a good feeling. I feel blessed and honored for every opportunity that has already come my way and excited to meet those that are coming in the future.

Unfortunately, I did not get to say goodbye to everyone that I had wanted to say goodbye to this summer. But I'm glad to have met and befriended everyone that has been a part of my life these past 18 years. I have learned from you, shared memories with you, and experienced the transition from childhood to the teenage years and into young adulthood. I want to wish everybody good luck this coming year. I hope we can keep in touch as much as possible over facebook and when I come home for breaks. This isn't goodbye because life has it's funny little ways of making sure people cross paths again. Or at least I'd like to think that it does. I just have to know that everything will be okay. Everything will work out. The way it always has.

Singin

I've been singing a lot this summer. My sister and I have worked out a few duets that we want to record soon too. Tonight she was getting tired so I flipped through one of my Mom's many musical theater anthologies and started singing and recording different songs with my Dad's zoom. (a little recorder that I'm in love with - my parents actually got me one as a happy college present! they gave it to me tonight). I uploaded it to youtube and figured out how to embed it into my blog =)

this business

I love this business. My new best friend is backstage. I got the latest one from a newspaper stand the other day in the city and tonight I spent time circling auditions and e-mailed a few people my picture and resume. This isn't the first time I've done this and I know that an audition is just one audition and it doesn't mean anything. But you also never know. It's a mysterious world out there and the more you put yourself out there the more chances you have. I wish I could go on every audition listed but 1. some of them are 3,000 miles away in California and 2. I can't spend every day skipping class and going on auditions. That's not what my parents are paying my tuition for and that's not what I need my focus to be right now. Right now I have to train train train. Although, I do have my first audition coming up for a Wagner production. They're doing Spelling Bee this year and auditions are August 31. I've been listening to the cast recording a lot lately and my Mom gave me the script so I have to read it. I'm really excited. It'll be my first college audition. I'm so pumped because I'm starting to realize the amount of opportunities that are waiting to be taken advantage of in my future. It won't be easy and I know that sacrifices are on their way. But to be honest, I've already sacrificed so much of a normal teenage life that I'm okay with that. Bring on the work and the love.