March 17th-21st
After my Alexander Technique assessment (which went AMAZING by the way, my group rocked it) I met up with (ex-blonde-now-ginger) Zarah after our Adam picked her up from the trains.
It was so great to see her and we both felt like we were picking up right where we left off.
It was our finals week which made it difficult to plan things with other friends she wanted to catch up with, but we made it work.
But the fact that it was finals week also meant that there was work to be done...and it unbelievably did not exclude Zarah. The Theatre Praxis class that Zarah attended with me in Fall term had a Journal assignment that was due (for some reason) at the end of Spring term that week, so she and I had to whip up 1,500 words before Wednesday.
So Tuesday we were going to devote our whole day to writing and in the evening we were going to the Guild Awards (an awards ceremony for all the student-organized events and societies). This event was "Rainbow Formal" which meant we had to wear something nice and colorful. Neither of us had anything to wear so we had planned to go shopping for something the day of.
After we wrote our journals, we didn't have much time left to shop, but we went anyways taking the train to the Bullring (the main Birmingham shopping area). There we ran into an H&M and after 10 minutes we left with outfits. It was probably the speediest shopping trip in my life.
And we sure looked good and colorful!
The awards were very nice: we had two of the most charming hosts anyone could ever ask for (both theatre kids) and if you have facebook, you can see their cute opening speech here. But I think the most exciting moment for us theatre people by far was WatchThis' win for "Most Innovative Society" for producing student written work.
James Blakey, my director from Oleanna, is president of the society so he got to make the acceptance speech.
After the ceremonies, we took the party to the guild where special guest, Zane Lowe of Radio1 came to DJ for the after party. Everyone was all very excited about his appearance whereas us Americans were rather confused: "Zane who??!!"
On Wednesday, we took Zarah out to Snobs, a club where several friends and I have spent far too many Wednesday nights this last term.
Thursday Zarah spent the day with David and in the afternoon we went out to Selly Oak to watch the Solo Monologue class assessment (which was my second choice to Alexander Technique for my practical course that term).
In the evening Zarah was invited to watch the last rehearsal for musical, Slice of Saturday Night before the holidays. Since Zarah was going to miss the show in summer term, the director, Katie, wanted her to at least see a rough run through of it.
Friday: Zarah, our friend, Reece, and I all headed down to London. Reece was going home for the holidays, Zarah was going to see her friend Taj before she flew out Saturday morning, and I was going to see my friend Samantha and then pick up my Summer 07 partner in crime, Alex Hoffman, who was coming to visit me from Santa Barbara.
Reece and Zarah
It was lovely to see Zarah again and, as she goes to school in LA, it will a comfort to know that she won't be far away when I go back to Santa Barbara. We both got very attached to Birmingham and it will be nice to be within driving distance of someone whom you got know abroad.
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