Well, today Staging kicked into full gear, sending us hurtling into vocal practice and cast movement (aka dancing). Let it be offically known that I suck at dancing. But, I'm making progress still, and its still fun overall (though I did want to punch a wall because I was getting so frustrated). Anyway, the past few days have been fun. We've been getting a lot of time to meet people, and I've been trying to take advantage of it. As I mentioned earlier, there are about 95 people from 27 different countries, some as crazy as Nabibia and Mongolia. I've done well on getting names and hometowns down, but I've still got some people to go. Overall though, it has been fun the past couple days. Conversations between people have been slowly progressing deeper, going beyond the superficial, "What's your name?" "Where you from?" "How did you get involved with UWP?", etc. We've been slowly getting into cultural norms and such.
Yesterday, I was discussing college life with a Swede, and how they don't have to pay tuition to go to college (but, they do have 50% taxes tho). Today, we were discussing marriage and family life in Sweden, which is a very interesting subject.
Yesterday, I was discussing college life with a Swede, and how they don't have to pay tuition to go to college (but, they do have 50% taxes tho). Today, we were discussing marriage and family life in Sweden, which is a very interesting subject.
Yesterday, I explored Denver a bit more with people from our cast, and took a tour of the state Capitol. I even stood on the Mile-High step on the building's step! Beyond that, we've been doing "modules" which are opprotunties for us to demonstrate our abilities in four different areas -- speaking, technical, vocal, and dance. The speaking went the best for me, and technical was cool; vocals was alright, and dance sucked. I made a complete fool of myself, but eh.
Tomorrow, we're going to work on vocals and dance, as well as journaling and internships with the tour. Later that night, we're going to go see "Cloverfield" because my roommate, Kristian, has never been to an American "cinema". So that will be fun. Saturday, depending ont the weather, we'll either be going hiking in the mountains, or going to a group UWP thing. I'll prolly try to watch football on Sunday, but we'll see if that happens :). Mostly, I'm going to try and catch up with sleep this weekend -- something I've been missing the past few days.
Overall, the people are just amazing. It is amazing what a philisophy like what Up with People has can do to create a positive, truly accepting culture where you feel comfortable to share anything and do anything. Friendships are blossoming everywhere between people, and it has only been the first week. I can only imagine what will happen after six months!! Pretty soon, we'll be on the road and truly living out of a suitcase.
Until my next post!
Also, check out upwithpeople.org for my tour schedule. We'll be in Lincoln for three days it looks like, so I'm sure the show will be on the last day or second to last day.
Dan
Tomorrow, we're going to work on vocals and dance, as well as journaling and internships with the tour. Later that night, we're going to go see "Cloverfield" because my roommate, Kristian, has never been to an American "cinema". So that will be fun. Saturday, depending ont the weather, we'll either be going hiking in the mountains, or going to a group UWP thing. I'll prolly try to watch football on Sunday, but we'll see if that happens :). Mostly, I'm going to try and catch up with sleep this weekend -- something I've been missing the past few days.
Overall, the people are just amazing. It is amazing what a philisophy like what Up with People has can do to create a positive, truly accepting culture where you feel comfortable to share anything and do anything. Friendships are blossoming everywhere between people, and it has only been the first week. I can only imagine what will happen after six months!! Pretty soon, we'll be on the road and truly living out of a suitcase.
Until my next post!
Also, check out upwithpeople.org for my tour schedule. We'll be in Lincoln for three days it looks like, so I'm sure the show will be on the last day or second to last day.
Dan
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