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……………………………Lumiere. Je suis triste parce que je voulais Belle, mais j’irai essayer être bonne à Lumiere.

Life is about disappointments and rising above them. After all no one gets everything that they want. Sometimes you simply just have to make the most of what you are dealt, which I will try to do. My goal is to be the best Lumiere there ever was!

For those who are completely lost about this post, here is the explanation: my middle school is putting on the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast. Today the cast list was posted. I was cast as Lumière . For those who are not familiar with the story or Disney movie, Lumiere is the talking candlestick pictured in the photo below with the talking clock, Cogsworth. Yes, that’s me.

Have you ever participated in any school plays?

Have you ever had a disappointment from which you have recovered?

Have you ever been a candlestick?

One of my close friends gave me the third book in a series that both of us enjoy (for my birthday). I had finished Don’t Judge A Girl By Her Cover by that night, so wrapped up in it that I was. This was the latest installment in the Gallagher Girls Series ( I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You, Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy, and Don’t Judge A Girl By Her Cover) by Ally Carter.

I shall give you the basic information, starting with the first book: I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You.

Cameron Morgan (a.k.a Cammie the Chameleon) is a 15-year-old student (and daughter of the headmistress) at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. Or a school of rich, snobby girls as the locals from Roseville, Virginia (and the rest of the world) perceive it as. Which is fine: after all every good spy knows not to blow their cover. Cammie can kill a person in seven different ways, she speaks 14 languages,  and goes to a school for spies-in-training. What could be better? To get in to the Gallagher Academy (which by the way you need at least a Level 4 Clearance too even know about) you have to be either a daughter of elite spies working for the government or a genius. Cammie and her friends Liz (a genius) and Bex (daughter of famous British spies) attend classes such as CoveOps (short for covert operations where your class could be tracking one of the teachers, attending a political rally and secretly tapping into the Secret Service frequency, or escaping from a situation where your teachers pretend to be the bad guys), Countries of the World, Culture and Assimilation…..not your normal classes and not your normal students. So what happens when Cammie fall in love with a boy, who isn’t a spy?

Hopefully you will be interested by this post and find a copy at the local library or bookseller and then you will go on to read the rest in the series.

Have you ever read any of these books?

If so, what were your feelings about them?

One of my many hobbies is theater. I love to act, it is extremely enjoyable. I have always loved to pretend so naturally acting is something that I like to do. It is always a fun challenge to take the basic clues about your character (from the script) and then enlargen what you know and discover more about your character. I always go in depth (at least in my mind) about my character. It is so easy for me to be another person: I try to think as though I were them, act as though I were them, bring them to life. An important thing to do (which will help your acting overall) is stay in the moment. While onstage forget about the homework you have to do later, the powerpoint due in a week, forget yourself and completely immerse in the character. That way it’s not pretending: it is just being.

I have been in a total of seven productions: two at my school, during 6th and 7th grade, and five at a local community theater.

I also like to watch plays: I find them very entertaining. I try to watch as many plays as I can at the local theater to support them. I also have seen The Lion King at a theater in Boston, and Mary Poppins on Broadway in New York City. Both of those musicals were phenomenal!!!
Have you ever been in a play?
If not have you ever been to a play?