November Recap and Discoveries

                                                    Recap

• Getting forgotten at school( my parents literally had a miscommunication and there I was with the two head teachers of my coup/school waiting for a family friend to rescue me) 
• Hunchback of Noterdame the new play!! It was perfection!  
• Usual Crazy(Drama,Dance,School,and Church)
•  Amazing boat ride with my grandfather, siblings, and cousins 
• Working out( run/walk, squats, dancing, sit ups rows etc)
• Decorating Thanksgiving boxes for families in need with the ladies from my church
• Thanksgiving
• Hallmark Thanksgiving movie event ( hosted by Candace Cameron Bure! she's just so sweet) 
• Enchanted Christmas village
• Moana
• St. Augustine ! 

 

The fall of Adam and Eve

Fashion discoveries

• Silver nail polish
• Knitted headband
• Walmart Christmas leggings! 
• Messy bun
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  I finally got my eyeliner right!

  
  

Food discoveries 

• Substitute lemon/lime juice and salt for salad dressing and save calories!
• Lemon water really does satisfy hunger
• Protein is your best friend 

( can you tell I went on a diet?)

                                                                            Theatrical discoveries

Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack by Alan Mekan

" I don't know if You can hear me or if your even there. I don't know if You would listen to a Gypsy's prayer. Yes I know I'm just an outcast I shouldn't speak to You but still I see your face and wonder , were You once an outcast too?"- Esmeralda

Moana

"I have delivered us to where we are
I have journeyed farther
I am everything I've learned and more still it calls me
And the call isn't out there at all it's inside me."- Moana

Second to God

Very excitingly I was inspired and wrote a play!! We were listening to the story of the pilgrim's and I heard the story if a teenage girl named Constance and two boys named Edward . I had to begin.  I was like this story needs to be a play..... now! I used notes on my phone and wrote the whole thing in one sitting. I now have major editing to do an SO MANY songs to write but I think it will be AMAZING. I know it sounds crazy but I think I might have something here!  I'm calling it Second to God and the moral is the consequences of putting an idol before God. Any-who I wrote the first song now I have a lot more. 

" This is the moral
We must leave when an idol is developed
You will loose your relationship with a jealous God
He will not allow idolatry to remain unpunished"- Chorus ( in the style of William Shakespeare) 

Define Debut

I always like to say that I debuted when I was an infant, and that is partially true.  When I was two months old I played baby Jesus in my church's Christmas pageant. I've always had a desire to perform.  When I was three I took ballet for a year.

I'm the one in the middle who forgot her ballet shoes

Ballet didn't work out do I moved on to singing.  At five years old I sang at an old-folks home accompanied by my seven year-old brother.

Shortly after, I sang I'm a little teapot and recited a poem at a home school talent show.

At about eight I played the angel at my Church's nativity.

Of course there were several in-home productions I wrote, directed, and performed.

This was a school assignment I was a girl on the Mayflower.

This was a play about a princess who was kidnapped by pirates.

                                              When I was ten I took choir for a year.

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                                When I was eleven  I officially debuted on stage in a play called Jonah's                                               Druthers, it was a drama camp. At twelve I was again in that drama camp in a                                      play called Happily Forever After.

When people ask me when I started acting I usually say. " I began performing when I was seven with piano.  When I was 11 I started acting".  I should say, "I've been performing my whole life!"So let's be bold and tell people the truth!   When you started doing what you love is when you began whether that's acting, singing , dancing writing or whatever it is you do, you started at the begining.  I debued as baby Jesus now I'm going to play Mary in a very exiting premier play!  From baby Jesus to His mother Marry, I've been a performer the whole way. 

Hunchback of Notre Dame!(Slow Burn Theatre Company)

Oh my goodness I saw the most amazing production I think I've ever seen last night and now I simply have to shout to the world about it!  It was the Hunchback of Notre Dame(Hunchback of No-tra Dam not Noter Dame!) It was AMAZING!  The music was perfection!  I mean I liked Disney's version but I loved this version.

My favorite part of the whole play is when Esmeralda is singing "God Help the Outcasts."  I found it amazing that even in a very secular performance the Gospel of Jesus Christ was being shared!!!!  My favorite line is  " I know I'm just an outcast and I shouldn't speak to You, but still I see Your face and wonder were You once an outcast too?"  Jesus Christ was the outcast of outcasts He was murdered for being Himself.  Jesus Christ loves outcasts, what a wonderful message!

 It's performance and delivery were absolutely flawless (well I actually saw two things I would have changed but that's it.)  This piece was unique because there were only like 10 actors in it.  They all narrated, sang and danced.  They all did everything!!!  They were all absolutely talented.

One of the major things I took away from this play was inspiration.  As a teenage actress I have to balance school and drama.  It's a whirlwind!  But it made me realize that if I work hard enough I could be on that stage performing equally well.  I was at drama all day today, I played 2 parts and danced and sang, I was on my toes the whole time.  I was exhausted.  I stumbled into my Dad's truck and fell asleep.  Later I saw this quote, "The dream won't work if you don't."  I've got to keep working, so someday I can perform to that level of greatness.

Madame,Me,and Fredrick

Esmeralda,Choplin,Me, and Phoebus

I saw this production last night and I'm still bedazzled and inspired.  I hope to carry this memory with me forever!