Day 53

Sorry I haven't updated in a couple of days but I can fill you in very quickly.

Monday: Just rehearsal for HONK! Learned new songs, blocked new scenes, you know the drill. Theune came by quickly so I could give him a tour of the children's theatre. It was great being able to show him this theatre I have been working in for the past two months.
I went out for milkshakes with my friend Madison who just graduated from Grand Valley and lives (and is from) St. Paul. It was great talking about things from back home and hearing about each others lives in the Twin Cities.

Tuesday: I woke up with a super sore throat and just a queasy feeling so I called in sick to the internship and literally slept all day.

Wednesday: Woke up again not feeling the best so I called in again and slept all day. Very boring days. I hated missing my internship. Hated it!

Thursday: I made myself go to the internship, but it has been a hard day. Today was the runny nose, sore throat, and headache portion of my cold. It sucked but I was really glad to be back.

In the morning, at 7am, a good amount of us interns met at the theatre so we could all go out to breakfast before work. A surprising amount of interns showed up (9 out of 12ish). We had the best conversations and it was just great being around people since I had been stuck in my apartment for the past 2 days. I am really going to miss these people.

When I went to HONK! later the stage manager was super excited to see me (he is my age and a fellow intern). Ed greeted me the best ever...which still wasn't that great but I will take it! Some students asked me how I was feeling and seemed to miss me. But not that many and I didn't dwell on that for two long but tried instead to have a good time with them. At lunch we had a mini musical dance party so of thing and I did a little too much and exhausted myself. Oh well, it was fun. We pretty much have the whole show blocked, choreographed, and sung. Which only took less than two weeks, crazy. We just have a few things to clean up and then we will be ready for show week next week! We also have the majority of costumes and props. We are so ready for show week!

Today after the internship we had a resume workshop. Ellen Baker, who is the Production Manager of CTC, lead the workshop. She went through how to write an application letter, a resume, explained some important tips for interviewing, and gave us some employment resources. SO FRICKIN' AMAZING AND HELPFUL!!! She is the person in charge at CTC of hiring the majority of the staff so she knows her shit. She gave us two guides: one for designers, stage managers, administration, and technical theatre staff and one for actors. She then took our resumes to look over to correct and to help make them more powerful. So I should be getting my resume back with helpful tips from the Production Manager of one of the top children's theatres in America!!! What an awesome opportunity. That was the main reason why I went to the internship today because I knew this would be important. Too bad I snuffled through the whole thing, it was worth it though.