Kid, You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!

Kid You'll Shoot Your Eye Out was a very different experience for me because while I've been in theater for eight years now, I can't say I've SEEN too many shows or monologues. It's different being on stage and it's different sitting in the audience. But I loved the anticipation, and the surprise of watching each actor come to bring me something different. The monologues were interesting, and you could see where each person found their strength in each piece they chose. I personally don't enjoy giving monologues, but I think that I enjoy watching them, and seeing the choices that each person makes as an actor.

Then there was the piece in "act two"; how wonderful it was to see scenes from a play, directed by a student and performed by people I know well. I found the piece to be so powerful. The piece centered around a love triangle where the narrator was in love with the wife and envious of the husband. The wife gets a black eye and the narrator tells a story of anger and domestic abuse, which isn't what happened in real life. then he tells the story that the wife told him. which we also are to assume isn't true. such a powerful piece paired with the outstanding direction made for a very potent experience. I believe that I'll go and watch more theater in the future just to experience being an audience member more, instead of always being the performer on stage.

Sounds Of The Season

The sounds of the season's concert has a different feel when you are someone who actually gets to perform in it. The adrenaline rush is like a cold punch of air on a cold winter day. We work very hard after the fall concert to make sure we learn notes and phrasing and basically we prepare for the unknown. A singer never knows what will happen we just hope that we can convey the message of the songs e choose to sing for the audience. We walked in and sang around the audience, a feat for any choir, and an extra knot in my throat formed. Part of the reason I sing in a choir is because I can blend in and even if people can hear me, they don't always register that it's me singing.

Well the other amazing part of the concert is the simple fact that I'm only in one choir. There are four other ensembles that present pieces for the audience, and audience that when they present includes me. I love hearing the sounds that the A Capella groups present. I love to hear the sounds that the voice can make. It's a sounds that transcends the bounds of the physical for me. I also think that it's amazing to see how into the songs the other groups are. As a singer it's important to show that you are into a song, because if you aren't, the audience won't be. So when the time came to sing Sleigh Ride I threw all caution to the wind and loosed all inhibitions and danced like a fool to show the audience just how fun a sleigh ride with friends and loved ones could be.

I think the best part of any performance is the end because that's when the audience wants to congratulate you and tell you how well you did. The end of the performance is when you know what you did was successful; that all the hard work was worth it, and something you do for fun brought joy to another human being during the holiday season.

Power Point Workshop.!

This power point workshop provided many useful tips on creating power points. I already knew quite a bit about Microsoft power point but I still attended because I felt like you can never know too much. We basically went over techniques and strategies on how to make your power point interesting and catch the audience attention. Never have too many words on your slides because the audience can get bored, and be mindful of your use of certain colors so that they don’t contrast with your background.

Although I knew some good techniques about how to construct a great power point presentation, the workshop was still beneficial for me because I have not created a power point in so long. I have forgotten how to present a presentation without it being to boring. I realized that I do write too much information on one slide, and I need to work on that by writting just two or three bullets and then present the information I know by mouth. I hope that this workshop is offerd next year when I am a sophmore because I will have a lot more presentations to present and I would like to do a great job on them. This workshop helped me and my classmates and was not boring.

abUSed: The Postville Raid

I went to see the experience event which was called abUSed: The Postville Raid. It talked about how immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico are trying to find jobs when they go to Iowa. Most people that this documentary interviewed were under the age of 18, and they talked about how they worked over 12 hours which is legal for people under that age. They also talked about how it hurt the kids both physically and mentally because it put a hardship on their life. They worked all the time to be in pain at the end of the night. The people who paid these kids also paid them for less hours then they had worked.
Most of these immigrants in this documentary were caught and sent back to their home country, but under one condition. Most of them were put in jail and after that they had to wear a GPS tracker on their ankle which they had to charge two hours a day. This made it a little difficult for the people to live out their lives.
Immigrants are treated very poorly,but in my opinion they shouldn't just come here illegally to find work. I understand that they need it, but they should have to go through the same steps as the original immigrants who first came to the United States. They should become a US citizen and I know that takes a long time, but it is also unfair to take away jobs that US citizens need.

Many people don't get a full understanding of immigrants and I feel like this Experience Event is the perfect thing people need if they don't. Immigrants go through harsh times just to help out with their families. From watching this it has given me a different perspective on the immigrant situation.

powerpoint workshop

In this workshop we learned how to use a power point and many different ways so that it can be able to catch the eye of the viewer. The teacher of the workshop went over the little techniques that can be used using Microsoft PowerPoint. Although he was teaching this I felt as if I had learned this a while ago so I had already had a feel on how to work with this software. This would help in the future if I had to do a presentation because it would help to keep the audience interested. This workshop will help me in the future to help keep the audience alive while I am trying to present valuable information to them.

The teacher of this workshop was very funny and kept us entertained with the topic. This workshop did teach me some things, but I really would advise that teachers as well as college students who have not used PowerPoint to go to this workshop. If people already know how to use PowerPoint then they really don't need this workshop.

fish Out of Water

The experience event that I went to was the play called Fish Out of Water. This taught me a lot about the world and how people can affect each others lives. Almost every character was connected with one another. This played showed how the characters changed throughout the play and one that caught my eye the most was daughter. She was in college and trying to do her final dissertation when she realized that becoming a doctor wasn't for her. This play was every funny as well and it taught me to follow my heart and do what I feel like I should do in life.

This experience event was located in the Wachovia Theatre I sat in the front row so I got to have the full experience. In the beginning I play wasn't going to be that good because I was exhausted that night, but as the play went on I found it very interesting and funny. If people were questionable about going to this play if they had another I would encourage them to go. This play was something that can get people thinking about their lives and realize that they need to experience the world and become who they want to be in life.

Sounds of the Season

Today I attended an experience event that was name Sounds of the Seasons. It was a Christmas Concert and I believe the last experience even for the semester. When I arrived there it was really full so I had to sit way in the back. So far back I couldn’t go any further. But it was okay because I could still see the performances and I could still hear them really well too. The choir sung two of my most favorite Christmas songs. One of them was Carol of the Bells and the other one was It’s the most wonderful time of the year. I like the colors they chose to wear together for the guys and girls, which was black and white formal attire. I could tell that the Christmas concert would be a big thing every year, so I am ready to attend the next one next year. They also have some other concerts coming up in March that I am planning on attending. Another awesome thing about the concert was that everything was real. The music that played in the background was not pre recorded or from a CD player, it was played by an actual student or faculty. To me, that is what makes it enjoyable. Going to this concert definitely calmed me down a bit from being so stressful about finals week. I surely needed a break from being so tensed. Towards the end of the concert all of the singers gathered around the audience and sung Silent Night for us. After that we were dismissed from the chapel and were invited for punch and cookies. The concert was really nice, and turned out to be better than what I thought it was.