Lots of new things

Its been a year now since I did this journal thing. The weird coicidence was that as I walked out of my scenograhy lecture today I heard the opening monlogue for 'American Beauty'. In the room nextdoor a first year film group were doing the exact same thing I did last year. Performed some of Journey's End today. Twas quite good however we need to work more in it. Birthday was amazing! Got lots of nice new things. Nicki got me a Batman duvet and a very rare production booket from the new film! Emily gave me enough sugar to make Sam weep. I also got lots of Wallace & Gromit stuff (The film is amazing!). Now to new stuff... I have apart from my bday things a new ebay account which I have been using a fair bit. Craig has a new laptop Sam has some Lucky Charms which he ordered of the internet for £10! Hes a lad. Jon has..a new haircut Cat has food poisoning, bummer. At the moment I am currently flitting between the essays that are due next week. I'm trying to find a time to see Chesh so I can change my module choices for next year. Also for the last 4 hours Jon has been trying to find the TV remote (the important one) which is somewhere around the house (still whatever keeps him entertained). This has meant that he has literally stuck his arm into every item of furniture in the house. We do however believe it to be in Sam's room. By the way it is very cold in fair aber. *PS since typing this Jon has in fact broken into Sam's room as drastic times have ultimately called fro drastic measures*

So Cold

Typing in gloves because of how cold it is at the moment. Also trying to get up to date with my working note book and doing some reading for my upcoming essays (yay). Saw Harry Potter 4 on Friday and thought it was rather good. It was however a poorly edited film simply because of how much they had to cram into 2.5 hours. Craig's lent me the music which is rather good as well. Family came and visited me yesterday which was great except that I had still got bad indigestion from the night before (Rushing to see HP4) which meant I just spent the day eating rennies and sipping hot water/whiskey. We all went to Newquay where we walked around the harbour and sat in a cafe. Afterwards we went to the Rhy-Pennau and had something to eat. Got some W & G mugs! Sorted out acting groups for exam. I'm with Bugsy, John (both who I did the acting course with) and Fivo. We are doing Journey's End and I am playing the part of Hibbert. I studied the play for A level and loved it and we are seeing it in London next month.

Vladimir

Just completed the most important course of my life. I can't effectively put into words the amount I have learnt in 4 days. Vladimir is a legend. I first heard of him last year when some of the second years who were in Twelfth night had him. I can't believe how lucky I am to be on a course with such talented individuals aswell. I have learnt alot from these people and have found it interesting to see how they have changed over the past 4 days. I'm never going to read a play in the same way again. We basically worked on scenes from 'Three Sisters' by Anton Chekhov. I played Chebutykin and Kelagin? and I had to do a drunken speech to the audience. Vladimir helped me alot though. This presents a turning point in my career I think. I had begun to become slightly disillusioned over the nature of practical acting, but this guy has shown me how limitless it is. Its even made me consider directing, and I have emailed Chesh to see if I could change my modules. I am adding him now to the list of the dramatists who have influenced me the past 5 years: Sue Rickman (Still teaching at Chantry) Pat Abbott (Same as above) Tom Knight (Teaching in Africa) Daniel Morgan (C&T) Pietro Cardillo (In Manchester) Allison Reeves (Still at WSFC) Paul Roseby (NYT) B (NYT) Dave Blumfield (Tom's Uncle(NYT)) Baz Steph Vladimir Boucher Me and Em wrote the panto in the end and my mate Steve (Practical group, Dogs on Tour and Russian Workshop) is playing one of the ugly step sisters. Went out for Halloween (Year since Craig's mate Becky visited). I hand-made my scarecrow costume and scared alot of people. Bumped into Owain, who has some projects lined up. Mentally knackered and worn out. Have to learn Macbeth lines for Tuesday.