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End of Spring Break and Start of Week 22 (March 7-13; 14-20, 2016)

3/24/2016

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End of Spring Break

Highlights from the last week of Spring Break 2016: The Woodsman Play, Julie Delpy Talk, Jeepney (Filipino GastroPub)
The Woodsman Play
Film Society of Lincoln Center Free Talk: Julie Delpy
Jeepney (Filipino Gastropub)!
Bicol Express, Tahong and Coconut Rice

Rehearsals

It's only the first week out of spring break and we are already deep into our work in rehearsals for Pecong and Scene Study class.
"Pecong" is Steve Carter's adaptation of Euripides' "Medea" and is set in a fictional Caribbean island. Roles are split among different actors throughout the entire play as in our Discovery Project: Pericles.
For Scene Study class I was assigned "Gittel Mosca" in "Two for the Seesaw" by William Gibson. It is a beautiful play with only two characters (Gittel Mosca and Jerry Ryan). Ann Bancroft (The Graduate) and Henry Fonda originated the two roles in the original Broadway production.
I am thrilled to be working on those two plays and I am grateful to be in a program that casts actors "outside of the box." I think that the program and I are on the same page in terms of being cast not according to one's "look" but according to possibility and who one can become.

Birthday 2016

I remember as a kid growing in the Philippines, I would look forward to my birthday because I love throwing a party (with cake, balloons, party food, etc.), making a wish and opening presents. In my 27th birthday I did none of those things because I needed none of them any more. I did buy myself three cheesecakes (caramel, vanilla and red velvet) from Magnolia Bakery, 1 candle and a "Happy Birthday" pick I can stick on one of the cheesecakes. I still wanted to take a deep breath and blow a candle even on my own. 
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March 20, 2016 Palm Sunday and the First Day of Spring!
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First Birthday out on my own. Cake given as a surprise by my suite mates :)
As I grow older I seem to want less material things (thank God) and the need to "wish" for the future becomes less. As I appreciate, accept and understand the "ongoingness" of life more and more, as I gather more wonderful people into my new "family," as I become more aware of how I want to live my life from day to day - the need to fantasize for a "better future" becomes less as the present becomes more like a gift.
I am grateful to have finally found my tribe in Group 48 and in my extended Juilliard family, I am grateful to be in a program that encourages me to continually draw from who I am, I am grateful to finally have the space, independence and freedom to choose what I want to include in and exclude from my life.
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Week 21 and Spring Break (Feb. 22-28; Feb. 29-March 6, 2016)

3/7/2016

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School of Rock at The Winter Garden Theater
Henry Butler and the Hot 9/Christian McBride Band
Vigee Le Brun: "Woman Artist in Revolutionary France"
The Met!
Brookfield Place
Free talk with French film actress Isabelle Huppert
One of the things I've always loved doing even when I was still in the Philippines was wandering through the city following my curiosity. I was thrilled that I can do more of those in a bigger city such as New York especially during spring break.
Before I left for New York I saw myself as a relatively independent woman who knew what she wanted. Upon coming here I realized there is still so much to learn not just about the world but also myself. 
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I guess learning to be alone is like learning to ride a bike: you get better at it with practice. It would be a pain if someone else pedalled the wheels for me. It is my bicycle, my life after all.
I feel I am getting better and better in finding out how I want to fill my time in a fruitful way given a ton of freedom.

Poetry in the Park

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Park Poetry in Central Park
We still have a ton of homework to do over spring break and one of them was to do a "Public Act of Poetry." Having this homework and the thought of doing it brought discomfort and agitation in me so I decided to get it over with as soon as possible. So on noon of Sunday (March 6, 2016) I headed over to Central Park, picked a bench where a considerable amount of people passed by and set up the place to do my "public act of poetry." Using an Ifugao skirt and headdress and a makeshift "Park Poetry" sign using a recycled cardboard as my "backdrop," I grabbed a book of poems by Mary Oliver and read it out loud as people walked by. 
There were at least two people who stopped (my eyes were fixed on reading so I could only see through my peripheral vision). The poem that made them stop was "Wild Geese." This was not surprising to me because this was one of Mary Oliver's most beloved poems. They didn't finish the poem though. They left half-way as soon as I felt I was going to tear up. I cannot imagine how many people must've thought I was crazy, but then again this is New York.
WILD GEESE

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
        love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver
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