.... is the word, is the word that you heard. This was basically the word of the semester. Don't ask why.

I'm sitting on my bed in Houston, the morning after my flight home from London. Wow. What a semester. Easily the best four months of my entire life. I am preparing for an easy month of depression at the thought of not being with the new family I have made, the professors who have given me an entirely different angle to approach my life from, and the environment that has become my other home. However I know I can't approach my return that way, this was bound to happen. I have to look at this as an opportunity to live in a different way, with the skills I have learned abroad. To have an air of maturity, a strong sense of purpose, and a view that everything works out no matter what and that everything happens for a reason.

Ok, enough philosophy, let's talk about the past couple of weeks.

We had our final Globe performance and WOW what an experience. An audience. A complete audience. At the Globe. I felt like I was flying on air. However, I know I am an actor at heart because I went offstage thinking "I could have done better." Never settle for the best, you can always do better. Or at least differently.

Saying goodbye to a person you're not sure you will ever see again is the hardest thing to do in this world. My professors are not likely to pop up again, even though I am determined to keep up with them electronically. I will definitely keep up with my friends (thank you, Facebook) but I just hope I will get to see them in the flesh again and again.

I had a very easy finals week, just 2 papers. I spent the last few days I had in London hanging out with my friends before the big goodbye and the long haul back to Houston. THAT was fun. 14 hours in a plane, pick me, pick me!! But my last few days WERE fun. That I can say for sure. Knowing that these were my last moments in this dreamlike semester made them that much more special. Knowing these were people I would treasure for the rest of my life made them that much more important. And knowing these experiences would be carried with me through my journey made my drive to succeed that much more defined. I will strive for the best. No doubt about it.

So I get back to Trinity in about a month, where I will be living off campus for the first time and doing my last semester. What a couple of months that will be. My lab show, Top Girls, has been approved! Now I just need to get logistics in order and set aside my time at URTA and MWTA and other auditions for grad schools. Hectic. That is the word for next semester. Hopefully it will be fun hectic though. Let's see what happens.

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