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I am very excited for I have never been to Ireland before and I have heard many great things about it. I will be visiting some relatives (some of whom  have visited this blog and one who has posted!) in the Dublin area and County Cork. I am excited because in the ten days I am there I will visit castles, ancient burial sites, Dublin, various little towns and hopefully go horsebackriding. I am going to practice the little bit of Gaelic I know and hopefully learn some more and my relative Doreen speaks French so I shall have opportunities to speak en francais with her. As soon as I get back I shall make a post about mon voyage and maybe I shall post some photos.

If you wonder why your comments do not get approved during this ten-day time period or there is a lack of response to your comment, do not fear, it is NOT because I am ignoring you, it is because I have not been able to access a computer. That should not stop anyone from commenting though: an email inbox full of comments-to-be-approved would make me very happy when I come home! I will try my best to get online once or twice while I am there though.

Have you ever been to Ireland?

Are you Irish in anyway?

What nationalities are you?

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?

Tonight I am heading to a three-week long (I come home on weekends though and therefore will still be able to blog!) academic camp at a local college campus. Back in January the kids with the top 10% of MCAS* scores from my school were notified about the Advanced Studies and Leadership Program, and were eligible. Only eight out of the twenty-two from my school district would further get in, so you needed to write an essay on how the ASLP program would help you and you needed to get two teacher recommendations and a guidence counselor recommendation. After that you just sent in your completed packet (including the recommendations and essay) and hope for the best. April 10th I found out that I was in. One of my best friends also was admitted so we were both very happy.

ASLP is a three week course where we come home on the weekends. The students stay in dorms so it is like being in college. The curriculum is mostly science and involves the sea. I was lucky enough to have been put in the STEM course of Navigation and Boat Handling because I love to sail and I am pretty good at it also. The biggest project for my course at the end is steering a (simulated, of course, after all who would be crazy enough to put 12,13, and 14-year-olds behind the wheel of a 500 foot ship) five-hundred foot ship into Boston Harbor. Fun! We also take humanities courses. I wanted to get placed in the Drawing and Painting group but instead I was put in the Yearbook group (which isn’t the end of the world because I like photography).

*MCAS is a state wide test every April and May that is very boring and pretty long.

Notice how it says tonight at the beginning. This post was supposed to be finished last Sunday and therefore would have made sense, but somebody *I wince and gulp guiltily* was discombobulated and needed to finish packing….
My first week was amazing and very fun and I shall inform in later posts!

How is everybody’s summer/winter holidays (Depending on your hemisphere)?

Yes, you read right, only 11 and a half more school days untill the end of school (for me that is)!!!!!! Schools in the northern hemisphere will soon be ending and everybody will be heading off to their summer vacations. I for one am very relieved and excited. I will have a summer full of swimming, reading, and fun. I will hang out with friends and go to an advanced learning and leadership program at a nearby college. Je vais avoir plus fois jouer avec mon chien. J’irai lis beaucoup. J’irai nage surtout. Et theatre? Je ne sais pas. My newest summer activity will be blogging (of course!) my new favorite pastime.

Is your school getting out for any holidays soon?

What do you like to do on summer vacation?