New York Adventures

Well, I haven't written a blog in a while! A lot has happened since my last one. On Tuesday I had two acting classes--one in the morning at Bova Actors Workshop that I had started back in May when I was in school. I love this class and the teacher is really great. On Tuesday night I started a new class centered on the Alexander Technique--movement and voice for actors--at Primary Stages (an off-broadway theater) with their acting school ESPA. I really enjoyed it and I think it will help me a lot. The teacher is a sweetie and one of the girls in my class is my age and she goes to Muhlenberg College studying acting&dance and she knows a bunch of the people from my high school who went to Muhlenberg for acting and dance! That was exciting and a nice familiar connection.

On Wednesday I really had a bum day. I woke up at 11:15 am and watched Boy Meets World all day. We've been watching a lot of DVDs because we don't have cable yet :P At 6:00 pm I had to go into midtown for an interview for a television production job. It was for a new show called Comedy Joy Ride, a "diverse version of SNL." The interview went really well and I got a call the next day saying that they wanted to hire me!! And not only for production work, but to be in the sketches too!! Wahoo!! I'm pretty darn excited because this is my first production job that I have officially been hired for. When I got home later that night, my last roommate Melanie Kimmel--a friend from high school--had arrived. It was a perfect end to a perfect day :)

On Thursday I met up with Chris, a friend from school. We decided to do touristy things and had lots of New York adventures. We went all the way down to the tip of the island to Battery Park where we could see the Statue of Liberty, which was actually my first time seeing it since I've been living in New York even for school. We then walked over to South Street Seaport, which I LOVED. It's one of my new favorite places in New York. It's beautiful and right on the water. There's a boardwalk and lots of cute shops and we visited The South Street Seaport Museum--only $6 with a student ID--which had lots of info on the history of NYC, which was really neat. The area sort of reminded me of Annapolis or the Baltimore harbor, which could be why I enjoyed it do much. We then walked over to see the new World Trade Center, which is just beautiful. As you can see from the picture, it is significantly taller than any of the buildings around it and and even any of the other buildings in the skyline. After that we took the subway over to Highline Park, which is an abandoned elevated subway track turned into a beautiful park with lots and lots of green! It has a beautiful view of the water. At the end of the day we calculated how much we had walked that day and we had walked 5 miles!! I don't even need to exercise in NY, really. I can just walk places. It's crazy.