Orientation

Today was actually the real day one with up With People. This weekend of course we traveled and met our families and roommates. Today we got to interact with the rest of the cast, get to know eachother, meet the staff, all by playing icebreaking games (like Rock, Paper, Scissors with a Bunny Hop twist!) and watching presentations about the program. We did cultrue activities about the USA and got to hear what others think of when they think of the USA. It was interesting and a lot very true. We also did an activity that described and Iceberg and how the tip of the iceberg is not the whole thing and infact what is underneah the the biggest part of all (what we see about people and cultures and what really is) We did another activity where we wrote letter to ourselves that described things like what are our goals, what we want to learn, who we want to be in the cast, what we want others to see us as, and then how we felt at the time we were writing. We talked a bit about what the next 5 weeks were going to consist of and so on and so forth and then that was pretty much it for the day. It was a great day, very long, but really nice. We started our day at 6 am and got home tonight at about 8pm. After our day was done with the cast we went to watch Rosie at gymnastics from 6:30 to 7:30pm. She is a very good little gymnast!

Tomorrow we participate in modules (mini auditions) to see what each of our strengths are in vocal, dancing and verbal skills. I'm really excited and can't wait to see how I do. I know I'm not fantastic at any of these things, even though, when taught I can learn okay. This is why I can't wait to try it all out. See what are my strengths in a performing role. Most of all I'm ready to go out and have fun. i will have a bit of free time tomorrow and plan on trying to get some snail mail letters written.

Have a great night!

Jessica