The past couple weeks have been crazy.  Especially the weather!  Last week an ice storm hit Cape and classes were cancelled from Monday afternoon to Thursday morning!  We thought all the weather was over when the ice melted, but, yet again this week, more bad weather.  Classes were cancelled all day Thursday and campus didn’t reopen until 10 o’clock on Friday.  It’s severely thrown off a lot of classes, especially those that only meet once a week.  So we’ll be playing catch up a lot this semester I bet.

On a happier note, the ice was gorgeous around campus; check out some of my pictures!  It was a little frightening walking around campus while ice melted, however-lots of falling icicles! Crazy weather also meant lots and lots of free time, so me and my roommate went hair and picture crazy again.

Also, I’m feeling much more confident in my choice of major.  Being a theatre major is EXTREMELY demanding time-wise, because when you aren’t in class, you are working on a production.  I was feeling a little stressed about it all at the beginning of the semester, and was (surprisingly) really missing science classes.  I was debating becoming a Biology Education major!  Though, in the end, I decided against changing my major, I discovered that it would’ve been okay if I had.  That’s kind of what the first year of college is about.  For instance: my boyfriend has had a change of heart.  He decided that teaching really appealed to him more than psychiatry, so he’s most likely switching his major to Biology Education (with a possible theatre/psychology minor!)

I’m also realizing that even if I major in one thing and later on in life figure out that my career isn’t right for me, I can change.  My life isn’t determined by what my major is, and that is really liberating.  I am such a planner and have been trying to figure out every last detail of my life ever since I realized that I wasn’t going to be in preschool forever; but that’s not the way I want to live my life anymore.  It’s good to plan, but it’s also okay to stray away from “the plan.”

Speaking of plans, Dance-apalooza is approaching fast, and it’s going to be incredible, even with all of the snow’s messing with the planning and rehearsals.  It amazes me how much work the dancers put in and how incredible the finished product looks.  Even who don’t think they’re interested in dance will be dazzled by this performance!  So make sure to get tickets! (There’s more info in my last journal entry.)  It’s nice being a student, because all department performances only cost $1 with your student ID.

Tomorrow I’m heading to the MidWest Theatre Auditions in St. Louis.  I’m auditioning to work in various summer stock theatre companies this summer.  It would be really awesome, but I feel like I also need to have a job this summer that pays well so I can buy a car, even if it’s not one I like-theatre related.  It’s tough not having a car because the River Campus is not on campus, and that’s where all of my theatre stuff is!  There are shuttles, but they only come every half hour in the evening, and they don’t go directly to Vandiver (my dorm) so I still have to walk across campus in the dark.  I ride my bike in good weather during the day, but, as I’ve said before, being a theatre major is a lot of time, most of which is spent at the River Campus.  Also, as an education major, you begin doing observation hours in the classroom your first year!  It’s really cool to get that experience, but it’s hard to schedule things if you don’t have a car to transport you to the schools you need to observe.  So alas, my love of theatre might need to be sacrificed this summer for practical reasons, like insurance and gas money.  Yuck.

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