This last week has been filled with lots of interesting twists and turns. Things are starting to intensify academically which I’ve been taking pretty well but still am amazed at the work still needed to be done. Needless to say, I definitely needed a break so going up to Portland to visit my friend at Lewis and Clark was a great way to do it. Seeing them all pack up getting ready to go home made me realize how close summer is coming back at Linfield. For my acting class, I went to the Linfield musical “Spring Awakening” here at Linfield. It was, ultimately, a play about character’s upcoming sexualities which was a controversial twist to the tamer plays and musicals I’ve been exposed to.
In my Critical Thinking class, we participated in an interesting experiment trying to test “the sixth sense” otherwise known as feeling the presence of someone there without using any of the other five senses. We tested this by using a blindfold and putting someone in a sound proof room to which someone would either be staring at you through the window or not be. From then, us students are meant to say whether we felt that we were being stared at or not. We have yet to wait on the results but it is interesting to see whether there is any correlation.
In my singing class, we have been working on Italian opera songs to which mine is a beautiful ballad piece titled “Vaga Luna che Inargenti” which even Pavorotti has sang in the past! Ultimately, I am glad to be exposed to a kind of music I’m not usually comfortable singing to, if even to listen to. I’ve luckily received positive feedback on my work so far and am now wondering what I have to go from here after class is over considering I would really like to be in more voice classes.
Hopefully these weeks will be manageable and I can come out with the grades I want. I am still interested to see how I will be able to fly all of my things back to California but am sure I can figure out some way to make it work. Three more weeks! Summer’s almost here!
