3-Week Catch-Up

Sorry I haven't kept up with the Song of the Week thing, if there's any of you who care it's just that this isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I go on the internet.....so here's the first one in 3 weeks

Song of the Week: Watch What Happens from Newsies the Musical


JEREMY JORDAN AND KARA LINDSAY ARE SO AMAZING

Song of the Week

Song of the Week: The Girl in 14G (by) Kristin Chenoweth

Song of the Week

Song of the Week: As Long as You're Mine from the musical Wicked

Fastest Speed Stackers

These people aren't from Hong Kong, they're from Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKVCg3EZqDo

Song of the Week

Song of the Week: That's Amoré by Dean Martin

Song of the Week

Song of the Week: Burn It to the Ground by Nickelback

NAP TIME

WE SHOULD HAVE NAP TIME INSTEAD OF SCIENCE AND MATH WHO'S WITH ME??

And Yet Another Story

So, um, currently, I'm writing three stories at once. The first one from the first Picture Prompt dragon and knight, the second one from the second Picture Prompt (Doodle from The Scarlet Ibis) The most recent one is branched from another Computers project, but from this 2014-2015 school year. It's Scottish, with real Gaelic and cities in Scotland. I'll upload it like The Scarlet Ibis one when I'm done. It's not on paper or all in my head, so it's easily accessible as long as I have Wi-Fi.

Grieving Part 2

I went to talk with my Youth leader about the topic after the funeral on Saturday and she gave me some good advice. She's been through some deaths of people close to her, so she knows exactly what I'm experiencing. She's just like me: hates crying in front of people, and when someone confronts her about crying, she's like, "Leave me alone I need my own space shut up and go away", and hates funerals, where those are put together. They say "it's a place where you can cry freely and no one will hate you for it", but I wouldn't cry there anyways because there are people there. I haven't been to many funerals in my life besides this one, I think actually this is my second. The first was of some soldier that I had no relation to. Actually, at the funeral, I forced myself not to cry, because I was sitting next to a dance teacher I don't know very well, so I didn't want to cry beside her, even though she was already crying herself. I didn't even want to cry beside my own mother. My Youth leader told me that everyone grieves in a different way (obviously) and that I shouldn't not think about it, (which is what I've been doing since I found out about it on Wednesday night last week) because if I don't think about it for long enough and bury it deep inside me like Cole Matthews' anger in Touching Spirit Bear, it'll well up and I'll get depression. She said that I don't have to concentrate on the topic right now, but I'll have to do it eventually. I try not to think about it. She said that there's something psychological about crying, and how it relieves stress or something when you're grieving...something to do with endorphins...I don't remember. But I have to let it out and yes, Let It Go (the tears not the death), and it's okay to cry every once in a while, and it doesn't have to be in front of people, in which I will make sure it won't be.

Grieving

So I'm dealing with a death right now. The first death in my life that's actually mattered to me personally. This death is that of my dance school's manager and co-founder, Barbara Dodds, more commonly known around the dance school as "Miss Barb". I've never grieved before, so I hope I grieve "properly". For now I'm just hoping I don't break out crying in the middle of class and draw attention to myself. That would be terrible. Especially in English with the "different" teacher.

Picture Prompts

So in English class I have a teacher who's um...different. Sometimes he gives you writing exercises called Picture Prompts, where when you enter the room, it's dark, and there is a picture or are pictures in a slideshow on the (Not So) SmartBoard that you are required to write from. You can write anything: a story, paragraph, essay, poem, word, whatever you want. I like writing stories. So. Flashback. Kind of. Who doesn't like flashbacks? Last year in Computers, we (each person in the class) had to write a book. I made mine really complex, unlike everyone else, who wrote kid books. I never finished that book, (thence my low grade) so I thought I would continue it when there was a picture prompt of a dragon and a knight fighting it, which reminded me of my book. Earlier last week, there was a picture prompt of Doodle from The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, and I wrote a separate story about that. I'll post the link wen I finish it. It's kind of dark, I warn you.

Recommended

I recommend the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the movie If I Stay

Broken Clocks

So my bus comes at 8:22 am to take me to school in the morning, but it is recommended that I am at my bus stop by 8:17 am. This morning, I thought it was 8:40 am and that I missed the bus, but my biological clock was an hour ahead. My head exploded and I died for 5 minutes.

Kids Making Mind-Blowing Amounts

I was wondering for a while if kids on Broadway, like the four Matildas and all the little Maggots or Lilla Crawford or Taylor Richardson and the Annie orphans or the Billy Elliots and the ballet girls, get paid. This is what I found. It is astounding:


"They are under the same contracts as adults. Bway minimum is a little over $1600 right now. Principal children make more. There is no deduction based on number of performances they do per week. Their pay is based on the size of the role. 

So the Billy Elliot ballet girls were making minimum. The Billy's were making a little over 3 grand a week. The Mary Poppins kids make around $1800/wk."

By the way, everyone on Broadway, if they are not an understudy, does 8 shows a week including Sundays.

Please Accept My Apology

Hey. I apologise because I kind of got home a long time ago, like, August 16th, and I kind of gave up on here. Then I thought I should post something again, so here it is. I'm just gonna post a crapload of videos that I found are super cool. Just a random fact, I'm an inch shorter than Kristin Chenoweth (look her up she's 46 and 4'11".) Talking about Kristin, there's a girl in university studying opera voice I know, Katrina, who reminds me a lot about Kristin Chenoweth. They both are Christian, study (in Kristin's case, studied) Opera in university, and have both a separate opera voice and pops/worship voice. Their differences (not all, that would take so forever) are obviously their age, their countries, their hair color, and the fact that Katrina didn't do musical theatre and Kristin did and is still doing musical theatre. Kristin won a Tony for playing Sally Brown in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" in 1999 and an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in "Pushing Daisies" in 2009. If you accepted my weird apology, then I commend you, and if not, then, well I guess, you never will.

Another random fact: Travis Wall from SYTYCD looks a little bit like Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother and Broadway and hosting the Tony's but Travis is 26 and Neil is 41.


Crapload of Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qJstt94hUg&src_vid=RJFchufngAk&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_523799

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJFchufngAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a438sPVlonI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKVWJkTcXXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DwvsqQfzIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZArGxzcYvc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h28YdwQxsJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03TjhI40aQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXqa6BitTCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufPoqE21ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrxfHCtMJA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_037Ti8hwPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDJUSI8ryw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9DO3zpdWqw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hid62uYRh1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVVVNVshd3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mIvCWHju8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJXw0lL5-vA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ35OEQhjfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrplOrXyz70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vADkxgcYZcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD_aMEP2u0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m72SF3G4RA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY8SasmV-T8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFAmdNvhiRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02iTOaZBoXo

[My personal favorite of Kristin Chenoweth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJIMSy-o4k]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIfHCqzOddk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4EtbRJw14E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0cK6lkfgHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6i4wJ09bE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgFZ6WIaIS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4uYsz7kayM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBJn4BHtqqY

If you play this at 1:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGPXR565RkE
Then start this from the beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpaSNjdk6g
It sounds really cool.
Then you keep replaying the Revelations soundtrack until the Black Flag Aveline video ends.

http://project-mili.bandcamp.com/track/sacramentum-unaccompanied-hymn-for-torino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXJa_YZFt4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMN1oXKDWc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJxyuTMMog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnB6ynZEr2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcjX3WZBzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo6lPifGnGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nznDUHj_h14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjVqzPQ5lfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyGb_EY4PU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tRDhEmdO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBX7wZO3tE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oewVISY1Yhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN_62IO4zIk

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVyirXlMnKo 0:59-1:12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo6lPifGnGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAUZIw95ueM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3i7j1dDMxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foOH8jAZodg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL2PFbgqf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyr48GACzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOuYHMBRIBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTCpP0EJsI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DwvsqQfzIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPgMuBJDEnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWWOJFITGQ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVDZNgQ28Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaO7bS5Ky6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxqGOk-pmy4



Kate Jablonski is my favorite choreographer. Next in line is Mia Michaels from SYTYCD who won an Emmy for Best Choreo in 2012 then Travis Wall is in third.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWhdKiK2ks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tDKsTqfFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yk3TgyvaK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxKa0KEhpTc

Bragging Rights

I beat my brother in Flappy Bird with a 34!

First Post.

So I'm in Japan right now. Yeah. It's really cool and I got a load of stuff.  I'll give the pictures when I get home.  I got my first ever pair of Vans shoes two days ago from a place called ABC Mart, so I could go Penny boarding when I get home.  I also got a plush penguin from the biggest aquarium in the world, the Ōsaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, a crap load of clothes, some sort of wooden Japanese toy that's really hard, a yukata with geita, souvenirs for my friends, and a yatsuhashi mini plush.