June 13 2009

*I wrote this when I was in a home with no Internet so it's a little delayed*

June 13^th, 2009

So! We made I through our first residency week out here in Austin Texas! Everything I’m pretty sure went off without a hitch. Throughout our entire week at One World Theater, I lost myself and found myself again about 16 different times. I’m forever thankful that our amazing trainer Eric was with us the entire week. He had the prefect mix of advise yet knew to back off when he could.

I think the craziest thing about this entire process is the fact that it works! Now I know that a million and one times all of our trainers at the home base constantly told us that if we just believed in the teaching process everything would work out fine, and honestly I believed them. I just think I’m still just as much baffled as the parents with the fact that these kids can put together a full hour length musical in a week. I mean they we so great! And the smiles that they all have during that final curtain call made this whole week full of stress totally worth it.

I’m sure I’ll have more to speak on with this kids, so I guess I’ll touch on Austin as a city itself. I’m actually still in awe that Austin still exist in Texas, I would have never placed this interesting city with such interesting people in one of the most notoriously county bumpkin state. Our first couple days we stayed in the HOJO which was a short drive away from downtown Austin. Now once you get to downtown Austin there is not a lack of things to do. I mean the amount of bars alone could make a grown man cry. We were lucky enough to experience some of the highlights such as the Alamo Draft House which is a movie theater where they serve you meals and you can get beers and stuff like that it’s basically awesome. We went and saw the Hangover which was one of the best comedy’s I’ve seen in a while. Which was pretty surprising as well.

Next week we’re off to Irving, TX where my father lives, I guess we’ll see what that bring.

MISS YOU ALL! LOVE PEACE AND HAIR GREASE!