The Italian James Dean

This week has been absolutely crazy. I've had rehearsal all day, everyday. Rehearsals have been going well, we finished staging Act 1. I believe we are starting Act 2 on Monday. I have a lot more songs in the second act, so it should be more fun. Learning the new part has proven to be very stressful, because I know only have 2 more weeks until the show goes up. But I have 4 songs and already have 2 1/2 memorized already. So I guess I'm doing ok.

Other than rehearsal this week, I have not done that much. I've called my parents a few times and tried calling cori a few times, because I don't have anyone else's number memorized haha. I sang in a midnight concert on wednesday, it went very well. My roommate dressed me all up, she did my hair and make-up and said she wanted me to feel like a diva :). I got a lot of compliments on my piece and that I looked very nice in my gown. So it was awesome. The other nights I just kind of hung out at the apartment with my roommate and watched Sex and the City. We actually had dinner with our neighbors and the boy upstairs a few nights ago, it was a lot of fun. I'm finally relaxing and coming out of my shell and making friends. A boy asked me out to lunch today too, sadly he's American, not Italian. Actually he's hispanic, but from the U.S. He was nice and has an amazing voice.

Last night I went out to Montefiascone to a concert there. It was nice, one girl sang a gorgeous piece that Andrea wants me to learn for my senior recital. It's hard but beautiful. So we'll see. I also went to another midnight concert last night. It was alright, I stayed long enough to watch one of my roommates sing and then my friend Cathleen and I walked back to the apartment and just hung out. This morning I went to a master class with this amazing woman. I wish I had sung something, but I just wanted to watch the first master class, I'll sing in the next one. Then I had Flute rehearsal, obviously, and we finished staging the first act! YAY!

One last thing I should tell you before I go. It's funny. When I was coming here my mom told me I had to watch out for the younger girls that came along with us. And I would have even if she had not said that. So, they are singing the spirits parts as well. They are about 13 and 14 years old. Absolutely adorable. So this show is triple cast, meaning there are 3 people for each part. And what the director does, is run the first act twice and switch the cast up each time. And the girl from my previous post, the one that didn't want to switch, tried to take advantage of one of the younger girls. So the woman has only been to a few rehearsals and just doesn't seem to care about anything. And the younger girls and I have been to every rehearsal, whether we need to be or not. And this woman went through the first act the first time we did it. Then the director wanted to run it again with another cast. So it was one of the younger girls turn to go up and cover the part. But this woman told the girl she wanted to do it because she only got to do it once. So the girl comes and sits down with me and tells me that she said that to her. So I think about for a second and turn around to her and tell her that this woman was just taking advantage of her. She was taking advantage of her because she's only 13 years old and won't say anything and this woman thinks she deserves it because she's the only one that matters. So I tell the girl all this and she starts to get upset, then we look up as our music starts to play and that woman is on stage. The stage director and music director both see her and flip out and say they want another spirit because she already had a turn. So I put my hand up and point to the girl and tell her to run up there. She does and the woman felt like ass because she got scolded in front of the whole cast. It made my day :)

MISS EVERYONE, I'll update when I can!! LOVE YOU ALL!