しょうがない夢追い人

After careful consideration I've made my decision: I've decided to quit the the school play choir.


I've made some really nice friends there, and it's been fun. Still, to tell the truth I've been pretty pumped lately, that with all the practicing, training and school work. My dream in joining this choir was to become a better singer, and if that's the case I realize now that I'll be better off with a singing coach. Sometimes pursuing your dreams means forsaking something in the process. 


I said I wanted to keep pursuing my dreams. Well, this is one of them, and I know that in order to make those dreams real you have to get out there and do something. I'm not saying I necessarily want to become a professional. I just want to become a better singer and learn more about singing and using my voice. And I've realized that's not going to happen where I am now.


Location: at home
Mood: school tomorrow -eep!

Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとうございます！

So, the year 2009 has come to an end, huh...
It's all gone by so fast! I can't believe that just a little over 5 months ago I was still in Japan.


This has certainly been an eventful year: 


¤ I went to Japan for the first time in the summer of 08, and stayed there for 10 months.


¤ I celebrated my birthday, experienced Christmas and New Year's Eve 09 in another country with another family. 

¤ I met so many lovely people and had wonderful experiences I'll never forget. 

¤ I came home, went back to school and started in a new class. 

¤ I made new friends and caught up with some old after a year on exchange.

¤ I saw Tori Amos live (but never got around to writing about it)

¤ My boyfriend went and came back from his exchange to Japan! (lol)

There's no way I could sum 2009 up in one blog entry! I think it has been a wonderful year in so many ways. Still, there's a few things I'd like to do in 2010:


¤ Tidy up my messy room (I feel more organized and efficient in neat surroundings...)

¤ Do more of the things I really want to do, and like.

¤ Keep pursuing my dreams, giving it my best! 頑張ります！

¤ Do my best in most things! 頑張りま~す!!

¤ Spend more time with my friends before they all go off to study at uni. :O

¤ FINISH HIGH SCHOOL!!

Now it only remains to see if I can keep up with all of this, haha!
First I need to finish my term paper for January 4th...

Location: Norway
Mood: *possibilities!*

Seeing red? So am I.

Turns out that the card generator on the webpage from which I ordered all my russ things does not allow personal backgrounds. Meaning I have to go mainstream. Bleh.

Oh well... I'm still quite satisfied though, seeing as I found a personal quote and a decent picture. (Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a miracle. I hate having my picture taken because they all turn out horrible-looking.)

So, in all it's glory, I present to you:

The quote reads: "If you're not yourself, you're nobody."

I have not yet given up on a self-designed card, though, but I shall have to print them myself. This means it'll be a limited supply, probably just to be given out to close friends and family.

We'll see. Tomorrow's the beginning of the Christmas holidays! I need some time to breathe now.

Location: At home, in front of the fireplace.
Mood: Tired

Eating: Chocolate

Spread your wings and fly!

I think I've found my inspiration for my russekort! ("russ card"? It doesn't really translate.)

Why? ...that I'll explain later!

Updated and stylish!

I got sick of my old layout, so having no skills in webdesign whatsoever I chose a new template. I'm still sticking with blue, though. How do you like it? :)

Maybe now I'll actually get to writing those posts someday soon... I keep putting it off.

Eventually I might just decide to skip writing about some of it, or I'll never get started again.

Soon it'll be Christmas! I'd better make that list...

Location: School
Mood: Accomplished (finished a project I've been working on for ages!)
Listening to: Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Eating: ...chewing gum...?
Drinking: Oh, right! ...water

Loong time no write...!

Yes, I know it's been ages since I posted anything here. Sorry 'bout that.

I've been busy as usual - especially since I got in on my school play. No, I didn't make the actor troop, but I'm in the choir. And hey, any excuse to learn more about singing! It's funny - I really love singing, but I've always just done it for fun, so I never really thought about how much technique you need to sing well. It's a lot of work, and I simply can't wait to start learning more!

I'm at my sister's in Kristiansand right now. I'm here for the weekend, and we're having a great time being couch potatoes and celebrating the fact that she finally got a pemanent job as a cellist! Congratulations, you've earned it! Also, we saw "UP", the new Pixar film. It was amazing!

I've realized there's still some posts from my time in Japan I never got to writing. I'm thinking of simply putting it all into one post, as a kind of summary. We'll see. There's a bunch of other posts I've been meaning to write as well. -.-;;

Location: My sister's place, Kristiansand
Mood: Sluggish
Listening to: TV
Eating: -
Drinking: -

Jazz hands!

...I'm officially done with my auditions! 3 rounds of 'em too.

For the first round I had planned to read a poem in two different ways, but ended up improvising nearly everything, doing a tiny bit of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and just talking.

In the second round I faced nearly all my demons at once by singing "Dreaming" from The Little Mermaid TV-show in front of a huge amount of people. Thank God for spotlights, I didn't see a thing! I was really nervous and felt stiff as a log when I stood onstage and I didn't manage to hold all the higher notes because I was so nervous. Still, it was quite fun! I got a really nice comment too, which made me very happy. (o^^o)

The third round was held yesterday. I teamed up with Andrea, a very talented and fun girl, and we did a modern dramatization of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. It was really fun to do it onstage! I feel much more relaxed once I have someone alongside me, and we made the audience laugh, so it was all good.

Phew!

Now I will focus on my upcoming history test (today) and then go home and do NOTHING. Except maybe draw and be with my family. Being 19 and all.

I'm already looking forward to it, this week's been rather stressful. No more auditions. THANK HEAVENS! Now all that's left to do is sit around and wait for the results. Wish me luck!

Location: School
Mood: Relieved and tired
Listening to: my Norwegian teacher talking
Eating: forbidden :C