Adventures at AMDA part 2

Hmmm...rereading this one, I don't think it's one of my better pieces. Still, I promised to post it, so I will. I believe that I was becoming rather frustrated with AMDA at this point, so this story comes off as a little more angry than the others. Second semester wasn't my best...

Monday
No Acting class, no sight singing class....why didn't we get this day off? Ah, 'tis the mystery that is AMDA.

Tap: We're starting in right away with some difficult new steps! Okay everybody, it's time for Traveling Triple Time-Steps (or, as I like to call them: A Step-Shuffle-Huh? Wait, Go Back...How Do You Do That Again?)!

Musical Theatre: Here's the mountain of paperwork you have to do for your first song. Any questions?

Then, to finish off the day, a rousing two hours at the library reading plays.

Tuesday
NO CLASS!! Whoot. Julia spends the morning sleeping, the afternoon seeing Superman Returns, and the evening on the roof of her neighbor's apartment watching fireworks. Ahh, NYC; is there anything better?

Wednesday
Jazz: I don't care if you have a hangover!!! Get up and dance, darn you!!!

Musical Theatre: Here are three songs, have them memorized perfectly by Friday.

Thursday
Voice lesson: Julia sings her musical theatre song
Voice teacher, a la Ben Affleck in Shakespeare in Love: Are you going to do it like that?

VPS: Once again we contort our bodies and are told to breathe. We're also told to curse our VPS teacher if we need to. We do.


Friday
Acting: Mary Katherine and Julia perform scene for the final time. Acting teacher's face remains inscrutable.
Julia: Do you think she liked it?
MK: I have no idea.

Ballet: The less said, the better.

Musical Theatre:
Stacy (our teacher): Today we're going to combine singing and dancing!! Okay everyone, get your tap shoes on and lets do it!
The song begins and Stacy calls out different tap steps which the class has to do while they attempt to sing the song. Class begins to feel faint after the third time...Have you ever tried to do a triple time-step while singing? Don't. You will probably die. I think I may have.
Then we do the second song while doing a waltz step. Stacy changes the direction randomly while we sing. Collisions occur. Many feet are stepped on. This morning Julia found a bruise on her toe which she doesn't remember getting...

That's all for this week! Should be some exciting stuff to come... Next week Julia performs her song, workshops her new scene, and learns to dance dance dance!!!

Love,
Jules