First Field Trip of the Year

Sculpture Center-
Plenty of Dada Sculptures and Bauhaus architecture
Upstairs: Everything was awesome and cool to look at.
-Shattered Stars on the floor
-Painted lip poster with stage lights as teeth
-Hawaiian hula girl sculpture with red skin and covered face
-Video where people sit in front and watch
-Automated circus trapeze
All of the elements are good pieces on their own but together they create a scene and the Dada is justified

Whitney-
Body Drama- Actress in room video tapes herself as she uses a prompt to act on. I saw the performance before reading about Body Drama. I thought she looked like a lost deer on medication. The whole thing reminded me of a NYSSSA exercise called Climbing the Mountain. I thought this performance as just an exercise not a performance. The prompt was simple to put yourself in a lonely scary place. I think it was somewhat difficult for this actress. She was very obviously in and out of the state of mind. However, she did do something right because there were some really good moments.

Potential Projections

About to ask mom for something for sucking up
Making friends and talking to someone in a new school (nysssa/college/ lifeguarding) for fear/ wanting everything to go as planned- do not want to say anything stupid
Think the person knows my secret for inquiry
Waiting for my friend to realize she needs to leave but don't want to tell her
Wanting to make conversation because I don't want to be left waiting for my ride alone
Feel like the person is secretly judging me in every way
See the person as the ugliest, most disgusting, smelly kid every that I must talk to in order to get a good grade because the teacher is watching
Trying to make the person laugh, but not think I'm too weird because he is my biggest crush/ want him to have a crush on me
Standing up for myself against my Mom without "talking back"
Standing up for myself against someone who will take it as a joke.
Standing up for myself against the worst enemy, thinks she's the shit 11th grade little bitch whore.
Prepping to tell my boss I can't work for the 4th day in a row.

Telling my brother I accidentally killed, injured or lost his hamster.
Talking to my grandmother (living) for the last time
Talking to my grandmother  (dead) once again for the last time.
Helping a crying kid with a minor injury that is clearly exaggerating at the pool
Helping a crying kid with a major injury at the pool
Talking to an incredibly annoying patron but would rather talk to them to get the time to pass
Talking to an incredibly creepy patron and just wanting it to end
Talking to a mob of patrons going against you calling you a stupid lifeguard saying you don't do your job.
Miss America.

Acting Class

I really enjoyed today's first class; I am so grateful to go back to studying and working on acting. I really missed how good it makes me feel or rather how accomplished it makes me feel. Once I reach that state of reality, not schmActing, I feel so in place. After Luke explained his theory of acting I was still confused especially in sorting out all the previous information of acting I have had before. After further discussion the confusion in ideas cleared up. However, I need more experience in the actual practice of the theory to get a firm grasp on the method.

STAC Wall

I can almost see myself reflecting back to this day later on in the year. Making a mural that I will see everyday for the rest of my high school life.  It was a nice way to begin my second year of STAC and semi-disentangle my senior year status in life. Because we already worked on core values and issues a bit last year, I was not hesitant on what to write. I simply allowed everything to flow out. The only reason I restricted myself was for STAC publicity executive decisions, but that did not hinder myself from knowing the truth for myself even if everyone else can't see it. Most of the words came from my subconscious and after looking at them and considering them more deeply I realized defining characteristics about myself in the moment. Last year I was in an incredibly different and more vulnerable state than this year. This year I am vulnerable but in a confident way. I also feel more calm throughout the day. Perhaps it is the effect of having off periods and being a senior in a school I am familiar with. I am excited to be able to track my progress and change throughout the year by looking back on my beginning year defining words. 

1st Day

Star Trek was so much fun to watch! To be completely honest, last year watching the prisoner the last 2 periods of the day caused me to almost fall asleep. It was a long day with no lunch or off periods but this year i have 3 off periods, 3 super hard classes and 3 of the best periods of my life/stac. This year I was wide awake through all of the show especially the end. I was totally skeptical at first- I didn't know the show could be so good. Actually in the very beginning I was questioning this show would just be completely strange like last years various videos and whether or not it would have a love interest and then all of a sudden it turned into a love story, kind of!
I'm super exciting to do more acting in class and on my own... college auditions yay! (? )