April 20, 2005

• Wow… a TON has happened since my last entry.  It’s been a month, that’s kind of pathetic.  The exchange students came and went, spirit week started and ended, I performed in You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, I sung at the auction, and I finished my movie and showed it on Recital Project Night.  I even started an entry after the exchange students left, but I never got around to finishing it, and now it isn’t even relevant anymore.  It was a ton of fun having them here though.  I stayed at Trevor’s house that whole week since it was my brothers spring break, and my parents took him to see east coast colleges.  Trevor had an exchange student named Kouki who spoke practically no English and didn’t show any emotion.  He could say “Yes,” “No,” “I don know,” “So-so,” and “I’m so full.”  We had no homework that week, and we did all sorts of things, like go into the city, go bowling, mini-golfing, baseball game, tennis, and a field trip to the Asian Art Museum one day.  I took so many pictures that week… The pictures aren’t working for some reason right now, but maybe I’ll add them later.

  
  

  The next week was Spirit Week, organized by the SC.  Lorri actually received two complaints from parents about Spirit Week.  Spirit Week!  They said we shouldn’t have planned it for that week because it would be too stressful with Recital Project Night coming up and all.  Since when is spirit stressful?  Nobody was forcing anyone to dress up either.  It was just a fun little thing that you could choose to do if you wanted.  I dressed up every day, just because I would have gotten a load of crap from people if I didn’t dress up one day.  It was fun though.  Not a ton of people dressed up, but enough.

  
  

  The next week on Wednesday was the first performance of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.  I was Snoopy, Claire was Lucy, John was Charlie Brown, Trevor was Linus, and Charlotte was Sally.  I was surprised at how well we pulled it together.  I had lost my first script that we got like 2 months before we started rehearsals, and I only got my 2nd script like 5 days before the performance, so actually I guess I was just surprised that I was able to get my lines and my song down.  We performed it Wednesday and Friday after school, and then again the next Friday during assembly.

  
  

  A week before last Saturday was the Nueva Benefit Auction.  The theme was (Brazilian) Carnaval, so the steel drums and world music classes played at the auction.  One of the songs was “Hot Hot Hot” by Buster Poindexter, and I sung it while the steel drum played.  There was actually a producer in the audience (the one that donated the tickets to the Emmy’s and down the red carpet), and she liked me!  She said she wants to try to find me something!  She didn’t even know I liked acting.  Singing isn’t really my thing, but I guess she just saw stage presence.  We’ve been e-mailing back and forth, so I’ll keep you updated.

  
  

  Last Thursday was Recital Project Night!  I spent 3 hours one day, and 9 hours another, editing my movie with my mentor, to be ready for Thursday.  I was so excited at how it turned out.  There are a few pieces I would have shot differently, but looking back I think it really came out well.  The whole thing was pretty much experimental, so just that it ended up looking like something coherent was either really amazing or really lucky.  My mentor really was a ton of help; I never would have been able to do all that cool editing without him.  My advisor Karen was submitting a movie my class made last year in Art class to the California Student Media and Multimedia Festival (http://www.mediafestival.org/), so I decided to send mine in too.  The judging results come out in about a month, but I highly doubt I’ll win, because Karen said there are 100′s of submissions in each category, and 1000′s overall.  I was also just searching around, and I found this: http://www.studentfilms.com/.  That looked really cool, and a great place to host my movie online so other people could see it, so I went ahead and sent my movie in to that!  It should be up on the site in 2-4 weeks.  When I give copies of my movie to people, I’m going to ask for a $2 donation that would be used to pay for that submission, and any other costs of furthering the reaches of my movie, like submitting it to other festivals.  Let me know if you are going to want a copy.

  
  

  Anyway, it’s Spring Break now, and we are about to leave for Lake Tahoe.  My aunt, uncle, and two little cousins from Seattle will be up there.  I wanted to finish this before we go because I don’t really have Internet access up there, and I’ve already put this entry off long enough.  When I come back, I’ll put up pictures of me as my four characters, so if you haven’t seen me as a Goth girl or a homeless man yet, you will.  I’ll let you know when my movie gets on that site.  Thanks for reading, now leave comments ,

  
  

  ~Adam

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