May

I’ll begin with where I left off in my last post.

April

Over spring break I purchased a used Canon A-1 film camera.

February

If you’re like me, you try to pronounce every letter in a word, which makes February a bitch to say.

January

On the New Year I played Pictionary for the very first time and really enjoyed it. I can’t draw, but I can guess quite well.

The short trip to Chicago was very interesting. I wish I would have spent more time doing local activities, but it was certainly different from any other trip to Chicago I’ve been on. I spent a lot of time in Hyde Park right next to the University of Chicago, which is one of the schools I applied to. I have a friend who lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood so I stayed at her house for one night. I had an amazing cream of potato soup and visited the best used book stores I’ve ever been to.

December

The three weeks we are back at Interlochen between Thanksgiving break and winter break are awful.

Octember

I was planning on updating my blog once a month, but that didn’t happen.

September

I finally have the time to update this site. Interlochen Arts Academy is very intense. By the beginning of the second week of school we had already finished David Mamet’s book On Directing Film and read the entire script to Thelma and Louise, only to begin reading the script for The Incredibles, which we finished Friday. Now I have to read the script for The Graduate and work on three writing assignments, while studying for the SAT Subject Test for U.S. History in my spare time.

Almost There

This will be my last post before arriving on campus at Interlochen. I will leave at about 6 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5, and arrive at Traverse City, MI at about 4 or 5 p.m. We’ll check into Interlochen Arts Academy the following morning.

I finally received my packet of information several days ago, but it was not at all very informative. (Thanks a lot, Interlochen.) My favorite line of text in the entire packet was the one that read, “You may be thinking that it’s a bit early to start thinking of school…” Wow, that just pissed me off. I’d been waiting for this packet since July and I didn’t get it until mid-August. It did include a mouse pad, though, so I guess that’s OK.

I have just about everything I need for school. I went to Omaha today and got some jeans that I couldn’t find anywhere else. I called all of the Gap stores in Lincoln and Omaha and there was only one that carried the jean I wanted in my size. I’m a little worried about getting snow boots. I just want to have them before it snows more than inch, but I can’t find any anywhere. Other than that, I’m ready to go.

Oh wait, my computer isn’t working! When do I leave again? That’s right, Wednesday at 6 a.m. I should probably rush the guy at Computer Hardware to get it fixed NOW. Like it says in the ‘81-’82 Interlochen yearbook, “Like, what a drag. I mean, spare me.”

Frustrations

Well, I haven’t written much lately and I don’t think I can really be blamed for that. Not much has happened this summer in terms of Interlochen. They did charge us an extra $500 again, but we got that sorted out (again). They haven’t re-sent the bill, however. Nor have they sent me my packet of information telling me what classes I’ll be taking. I really haven’t gotten anything from them and it’s already August 7.

I have gotten my uniform, although I believe I’ll need one more shirt. I need to get a few supplies for living and school. More importantly, I need to get a really warm winter coat and snow boots. I hope those supplies are available in stores soon, if not I’ll just get them at the mall in Traverse City, but I’d rather not.

It’s been decided, I leave September 5th to be there on the 6th. My father and I will leave from Omaha to Detroit and then drive a rental to Interlochen. All we need to do is buy the tickets, which for some unknown reason we have not done.

Class Registration, pt. 2

I was finally able to get through to Interlochen. They received my transcripts and my class registrations forms have been faxed. Hopefully, this means that I’m done with class registration.

In order to get all of my required classes for college admissions and all of my required classes for the MPA major, I need to take 8 hours of classes per semester. While I was talking to a counselor at Interlochen, he told me that because I’m going through an arts education most colleges won’t have the same academic requirements. What if I want to major in International Relations, though? I believe those academic requirements would come in to play then, but I really don’t know. I may end up dropping one of the academic courses, but that’s still just a thought.