I’ve been home for about 2 weeks now. I’ve got to see a lot of friends and it’s nice to take a break from school work. My schedule for High School Musical is really heavy already and I have to find a summer job, so I’m sure that by the end of the summer I’ll be begging to go back to UArts.

Here’s a picture of my Acting Studio with Drucie in the middle on the last day of class:

Cast Lists for the Fall Semester were sent out by email today. It turns out I was cast in DPCM Pageant as Bunny. I’m excited to finally be on the stage of the school that I love! :) 

So I guess I’ll end this. I hope everyone has a really great summer. Make sure you have fun and for those of you incoming freshman, I’ll be seeing you soon!

-Danielle

PS - Apply for the journals next year. You get a free camera ! :) 

I’ve got to finish my project. I leave you with this video from my high school “show choir.” The good news is: I’ve improved a lot since high school and so will you.

If you’re wondering which one I am, I’m wearing the Robin costume and I do the toe touch in the beginning. Don’t ask me why I wore that costume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zavCdHJgc1Y

And here’s my solospot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIrW1sD-CrU

Hopefully I’ll get in another entry before the year is over!!

Danielle

It’s not perfect, it has a lot of mess ups. You get the idea, though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAm0D5l2F2E

So my first big annoucement:

WE FINALLY OFFICIALLY HAVE A HOUSE. I REPEAT, WE WILL NOT BE HOMELESS UARTS STUDENTS NEXT YEAR.

We’ll be living near South Street, very close to Super Fresh and Whole Foods. (HUGE plus, so we won’t be spending money going out to eat!) It’s not as nice as the original house that we found on Catherine; however, at $300/month for 2,000 ft place, who really cares? It definitely is going to need to be fixed, but here are a few pictures of our new humble abode.
Old Fashioned Kitchen:

The living room:

The stairs:

One of the bedrooms:

So, the week went by quickly, once again and Friday we had the day off. Sweet! First 3 day weekend pretty much the entire year. It was for President Sean T. Buffington’s inauguration. I really wanted to sleep in, but decided it’s a special event so I might as well wake up early and support the school. It was 2 hours at the Merriam and there was some really cool stuff. After at the reception, they had tons of free food including free sushi, which was delicious. I’m huge on sushi, and free sushi is even better. I also went to the Obama rally at Independence Mall. It started 2 hours later than scheduled, but it was still awesome. Devon’s boyfriend, Gabe, came again this weekend. So we went a lot of time going to different parks such as Ritten house, Love Park, and just venturing around. Saturday night we went to one of the last parties of the year. It was GQ style so we had to look nice. Unfortunately, I decided to run there so my hair was totally wind blown the whole night. Oh well, I wasn’t really trying to impress anyone. We had fun and that’s all that matters! So here’s some pictures of us looking really sexy, right?

Ritten house with Gabe and Dev:

GQ Party:

Today, I woke up to sign the lease, but found out that we have to have our parents co-sign so we have to scan it, sign it, fax it, blah, blah, blah. Then we can print it out, sign it, give our checks. So, I guess we don’t really officially own the place yet. So, I ushered The Best Man this afternoon. The last time I will have to mandatorily usher for the school! Woohoo! Anyway, was that the most relevant piece of theatre I’ve ever seen? It was all about the democratic primary to get elected to be the nominee. They switched so it was a female against a male and the female was all about mud slinging. Hmmm. Sound familiar? Now, I’m trying to figure out how to get my song and monologue audition into 3 minutes. I’m having a little trouble, but I’ll figure it out before Wednesday. So, that’s it for now. I’ll let you know how the auditions go. Hopefully I’ll get into something this semester! Cross your fingers for me.

-Danielle

The weekend was overall pretty eventful. The weather has been soooo nice here. It’s basically been in the high 60s and low 70s for the past week I think. I get so excited about it. I bet Syracuse is like 20 degrees colder than that!

Friday, Alyssa and I walked around the city and went exploring. We ended up in a bunch of different consignment shops and I bought a Hollister shirt for $10 with it’s tags still on it. That night, we made homemade pizza from scratch. Saturday, we walked around the city to try to find dresses for a party next week and went to see if we could find a new house.  Saturday night, we decided we had to have a girl’s night out. We dressed up and went to Mama Angelina’s which was a really delicious Italian restaurant only a few blocks away from our building. After Devon and Alyssa changed, we decided we had to go out dancing. So, we went to Club 27, which is in Olde City. There was a huge line and it was so full that they weren’t letting people in. A bouncer was walking around, saw us, gave us glow sticks, and brought us to the front of the line. They called us the Spice Girls and saved us an hour wait. So we were pretty happy about that. The actual club was pretty sketchy, since all of the guys were very insistent on dancing with us, so we left pretty early. It was still fun, though. We needed to get out and do something exciting.

Tonight, I had to go see the Neil Simon Double Bill. The shows were Visitor from Philadelphia and The Dinner Party. The Dinner Party was so good! It wasn’t what I was expecting at all and at some points I actually was a little teary eyed to be honest. It also ended a little sad, too, which surprised me. Anyway, it was a really good show even though it was really long. So, that’s it for now. There’s only 3 weeks until classes are over. What the heck?! Freshmen year was practically non-existent. I’ll post later this week. I’m sure from here on out things are going to get a lot more stressful.

 Girls Night:

I’ll write soon with some more exciting news and more pictures!

Danielle