Actor's Gym Day 10

Hello brethren,

I'm am writing you today, a day late, from the Starbucks in Barnes and Nobel because no one has paid the ill for the internet at my craigslist apartment. So that is just another added perk onto that scenario. Also it is way too hot out today and there is no AC in that apartment. So I am glad to be sitting here in this Starbucks.

Ok. Onto what really matters. The circus. We started out our class like we normally do with our intense warm-ups. We have been doing this stretch lately that is really painful for someone who is not very flexible like myself. It consists of me sitting with my legs spread apart and reaching towards the middle, and then someone lays on top of my back to push the stretch further. It's a doozy. Once we got to the floor acrobatics portion though I was a lot more comfortable. I am glad we didn't skip it this time. We did a lot of rolls. One thing that we did was something that Kathleen had taught me during Alice in Wonderland. and that is a backwards somersault into a handstand. I had to demonstrate and I did it really well, but I don't think I could have repeated that again. It was awesome. Beginners luck I guess.

After all of that we split up into groups again and we started stilts. The hardest part about stilts is just getting them on. I had a lot of fun with the stilts, and it came a lot easier to me than some of the other things we have done. Elizabeth and I made a new friend talking about Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes (band) and the show Death and Harry Houdini so that stilt practice was a lot of joking around, but learning still happened.

Next we moved onto Silks again. We did the same stuff we did yesterday again. It is still so hard. Sylvia tried teaching me this balay trick and it was just super confusing. It was a trick we tried to learn the day before, but Nate couldn't remember how to do it so we moved on. Maybe we'll learn it another day.

Elizabeth and I got asked to Usher for the Summer Intensive show. This people in the Sumer intensive are really good so I would gladly like to usher because we get to see the show for free. until next time my brethren.

May the odds be ever in your favor,

-Chris