Hm. Seems I'm bad at keeping promises. Here is my next blog a MONTH later. Way to go Mark.

Last I left you I was getting ready for Fall Break, and boy was it fantastic!!! I went with three other friends to Madrid and Lisbon for a week. First, Madrid. Very nice city. Very urban. Great museums. Go to the Reina Sofia and see La Guernica. Just stand there for about 15 minutes. It's just the most magical moment. We also saw a Spanish production of Sweeney Todd at the TeatroEspanol, which was very good actually! Great food, great people. But the best is yet to come.

Lisbon came next and boy did I have no idea I would like it so much. This city is GORGEOUS. Right on the coast, beaches everywhere, markets all around, a castle right at the top of the cliffs of the city. Go. Please. Next time you decide "I wanna go to Europe", hit Lisbon. Oh, and go to the Goodnight Hostel. It's fantastic.

We got back and school started right back. I did a monologue from Seven for film class, which was a ton of fun! Globe classes are wonderful, as always. I was assigned my scene for our final presentation and I will be playing Lysander in a Midsummer Night's Dream! My group met our director, Tom, who has the most unique and amazing approach to directing that is very inspiring to me.

The next weekend after Fall Break, I actually went to Dublin! Honestly, I was slightly disappointed but had fun nonetheless. If you are keeping up with your math, that would have been Halloween, and Dublin is the place to go for Halloween. Pub hopping in the Temple Bar area and tours of all of the beer factories (Guinness Factory especially!), and plenty of other things to do. It's kind of a tiny London, actually. See it once, at least. Especially if, like me, you have ancestors there!

So we open The Bird and the Two Ton Weight in two weeks. I'm a little nervous, but it should be fun. I am going to be doing three back to back performances in one day. Eek. It's like summerstock all over again. Well, that means I should be fine, right?

I've been actually busier over here preparing for next semester than this one. I have grad school applications (yes, I am applying to grad school, Lord help me) and a lab show proposal to get off the ground. In addition I have to prepare more monologues for auditions next semester (we are doing two Sam Shepard one acts and The Misanthrope) and grad school auditions. Pray for me? Please?

I would just like to say if you are looking for an experience that gives you inspiration, that gives you the push you need to do something with your life when you are stuck somewhere in the middle, and you just want to do what you love with people who are the same way, go abroad. Simple as that.

See you next time! ........ Whenever that will be!