A Piece of My Heart was a Success.

WE’RE FINALLY DONE WITH THIS PLAY! I’ve never been so emotionally drained in my life. This play made me seem so bipolar because of all the scene changes and going from one emotion to the other. It was simply too tiring to handle. To be honest, I’m happy that I got to be a part of this. Sure this show has had its pro and cons but man what an experience this was. Drama usually does a lot of comedy plays and I actually realize why now. Comedies are way more easier than dramatic plays. That’s just in my opinion. There really isn’t much of a difference besides the emotions you put into make a dramatic play good. Castanon said that the reason why he wanted to do this play this year was because he finally found the right group of girls who could handle it. Let me list these pros and cons to being a part of this play.

There were many pros to it and I feel like the pros are more significant than the cons. For the first time ever, I became close to a group of girls without feeling socially awkward. Don’t get me wrong I also have girl friends aside from the ones in drama, but the thing is the girls in drama are a whole together. We did everything together during this play. We went out to eat, nap at each other’s houses, got into circles to share secrets and rehearse lines, and grew a bond with one another as the play was coming together. Nothing is better than that to me. I’ve always felt as if I’ve never belong with a certain group or certain people and being with them made me feel like I was at the right place. This was also my first speaking role and main role for a play. I felt so proud of myself for getting so far with not much experience as the rest of the group. Even if this play was all seriousness, we’ve made inside jokes from it and unforgettable memories with all of this stress that the play brought us. Man I could have sworn there were more pros to this play but I guess there really isn’t much. Maybe the pros were the fact that our bond together has grown ever since the play began. I guess that’s all that really matters to me since it is the best part of being a part of this.

Now I can get started with the cons. I was totally stressed out, but I only had myself to blame for that. I was moving unexpectedly, I didn’t manage my time wisely considering how involved I am in school, and I was being the same procrastinator/slacker I’ve always been when it came to school. I need to learn from my mistakes. Now I am currently sick and still wasting my time laying in bed when I can use all of this free time to get work done. Anyways, another con to this play was it definitely made you emotionally drained. I don’t get how actors do it. We would go from crying to laughing to being stressed and panicking. We would go home and want to rest but couldn’t because we also had homework to get done before we slept.

Through all the good and bad times of this experience, it was all worth it. I will always look back at this like it was one of the best times of my life during high school. On the last night, I cried after curtain calls. I thought about it like it was my one time experience in high school. That’s going to be the one time where I’m going to get to say, “this is my first main role and speaking role.” That was the one time when those five girls and I were going to get a main role all together. This is the best one time memory I’m going to cherish forever. I’m so thankful for getting to be in drama.

This was an intense scene for all of us.

The main cast (:

A Piece of My Heart is Coming Soon.

I’m very excited to announce that we official have only three days of rehearsals left until A Piece of My Heart premieres! It’s going to be amazing and I promise you won’t regret attending it. It will be on September 11th, 12th, and 13th at 7 p.m. Doors will be open at 6:30 p.m. and the price to attend will be $5 for students and children and $8 for adults.

My life has still been very stressful only because I’ve been slacking and procrastinating from being worn out with my life. I only have myself to blame though. I wouldn’t be stressed if I learned how to stop slacking and procrastinating. I really shouldn’t use excuses to get my work done. I always tell myself I don’t need to do this and that until later because of how tired I’ve been, but if I were really determined to get my work done then I wouldn’t let any excuse stop me from getting it done. I just need to start telling myself that. If you really wanted to do it, you wouldn’t let any excuse stop you from doing. Once I’ve completed everything then I’ll feel the stress go away.

Rehearsals have been going great and I appreciate many of the compliments that I’ve received from a bunch of people in the cast. I always hear how my acting skills have improved, how my stage voice has gotten better, and how I give them chills when I perform. This really motivates to strive to be an actress because I use to have a really big dreams of becoming big in the Hollywood industry and I guess I started doubting myself when I realized how hard it was to get into it. I’m still going to dream big and work for what I want though.

My Life Has Become Stressful.

Lately, I’ve been coming home feeling extremely drained and exhausted from all of the things that my life has been revolving around. I’ve been packing, rehearsing, going to my internship, my youth group program, making decisions for Morning Madness Rally, and having to do plenty of homework for slacking recently. Now let me get into details on why all of this has been getting me more stressed than usual. 

My parents surprised me and my siblings on Monday by telling us that we were going to move out of my house this week. I was extremely excited because I couldn’t wait to get out of the small house that we lived in. The only thing that made me stress about moving was that we had to move by Sunday. We only had six days to move and I was stressing because how was I able to make it to my internship that week and rehearsals while having to pack all of my items out of the house in so little time? Another thing that stressed me out was that two of my classes required me using my computer and internet to do my work for the class and I couldn’t do that if I wasn’t able to use my computer until we settled into the new house. I was such a wreck at rehearsals because of what I had going on in my head. It was so much work trying to go back and forth to both houses and what made it worse was the heat. I can’t stand the heat because they give me huge headaches. Well we manage to move out on time, but I really wish we had more time to pack.

It was really hard going to rehearsals because of the fact that I had to move out of my old house as soon as possible. I never got any sleep because I was dedicated to going to rehearsals and then going home to help my family and do homework. I was feeling so drained that I stayed home from school for a little just to help out as much as I can and then come back to school for when rehearsals started. I made rehearsals a huge priority to attend considering that I’m one of the main characters. Now, we only have ten days to get everything down until the show starts. Rehearsals are real tiring because the lights on stage make us sweat, memorizing your lines is a must even when you’re tired, and we only get about five minute breaks. I’m still very excited for the show though.

I also had orientation to attend for my internship for the Jerry McNerny’s reelection campaign. I’ve already made a decision to not attend until I’m done with rehearsals for A Piece of My Heart. On that day, I came home around 8:30 and I was too tired to even do my homework since I had to help my family as much as I could. I wish I had more time on my hands to do what I want. 

I attend this youth group called Giant Step every Monday and on that Monday when we decided to move, I still attended the meeting and had to come home around 8:30 to pack as much as possible. Going to school the next day was a real struggle considering that I didn’t get as much sleep as I needed.

I’m Commissioner of Rallies for the student government class and I was told to get as much done before the week of the homecoming rally. The week before I was stressing, I heard so much negativity on our school spirit and it was killing me because at that moment I realized that if our rallies aren’t going to improve our spirit, I had myself to blame. I know I’m suppose to have thick skin when it comes to anyone’s negativity because you can’t please everybody but I’m really doing my best to make this rally as spirited as it can be. Wish me luck!

Now at the end of the day of all of this work I’ve been doing, I also couldn’t forget to do my homework. That was a real pain. I started slacking on it though because of what’s been going on and I regret it, but now that I don’t have that much on my plate anymore, I’m going to step up my game for all of the things that I’ve been procrastinating on. As of right now, I’m actually drinking coffee trying to keep myself awake to do the work that must be completed. 

This has been a overall view of my stressful week and life. Hopefully after this month, I’m going to be stress free. Maybe.

Here’s a little preview of the six main characters for the upcoming show I’m going to be performing!

This is what my room looked like until we moved everything else in and now it’s a huge mess.