No more Musik og Teater- Højskole...

I am now in Odense, at my ex-roomate´s, Camilla´s house. Musik og Teater Højskolen is over. Well, for me anyways it is. Yesterday everybody said goodbye and went home. It was very emotional. There was a lot of hugs and tears, but for some reason I didn´t cry very much. I was almost getting worried that I didn´t have any feelings, that I didn´t really care at all, but I did, I so did. I loved it there at the school and I love everyone that was there with me, even though there were some I didn´t know as much as others, and I am going to miss them so much. I already do. I just don´t think it has sunk´in yet that I am not going back there. I am going to miss grumpy "good mornigs" in the morning, familiar smiles everywhere, group-sleepovers in the café, mejerisalen and TV-stuen, hygge in the café, watching movies for a whole lazy-day in the café without standing up more then 4 times during the day :o) and I will miss Camilla, my roomate. Last night I slept here at her house and it just felt wrong to sleep alone in a room. I will sleep here tonight as well. It has been so nice visiting here, and I have to say that Camilla´s father is THE BEST cook. These two nights we have eaten like at a 5 star restaurant. It really is food made with love :o)

At the samt time tomorrow I will be at home...

Enjoying the moment

I have been brainwashed.. by a musical! I have heard the songs from Twit´n shout!, the musical we are putting up (origginally called Hairspray), almost non stop for three weeks now and they are constantly on my brain. Last night Camilla, my roomate, woke up by me singing the final song from the musical... in my sleep! Can you believe that?? People have told me that i snore, and I have deffinetly talked in my sleep, but I don´t think I have ever sung in my sleep before.

It has been so much fun to show the musical though and I have just felt so good lately. I had this moment two days ago, when we were in the bus driving home efter a show in another town, where I realized that I was actually living in the moment, and enjoying it! It was such a great feeling. I just felt that I was totally happy where I was and I wouldn´t have wanted to be in any other place at that particular moment. And since then I have just felt very good and more or less lived in the moment. Maybe I have found the secret of enjoying the moment... I couldn´t put the secret into words though. Maybe I am just well on my way to find it. I will tell you when i find words for it :o)

Tomorrow it is familie- og venner- weekend (family- and -freind´s weekend) and almost everyone has family or friends or both that are going to come and see our last show. I think it is quite a shame that no one that I know is going to be here... But I think they are going to film it and maybe I can get a copy of it :o)

I have an afroe!

I have an afroe!! I am not kidding. I have a real afroe! Yesterday Nadja, this girl here at the school, used an hour on putting about 60 hairneadles (pins) in my hair while it was wet and then I went around with my hair all pined up the whole day and then she took it out, seperated the curls and put a LOT of hairspray in my hair, and then there was afroe. I was quite shocked when I looked in the mirror, since normally, as you know, I have very straight hair, and now it is just all over.
This change is for the musical which we are putting up, cause in it I am supposed to be a black person. All the actors are as white as can be but still about half of them are supposed to be black. It´s gonna be interesting to see if the audience actually gets it...

Christmasdresses and... things like that

Well, since I already started writing I can just as well keep it on.

I decited a week ago to stop eating candy and chips, and most that sort if stuff, until I will go from here the 19th of December. And I have been pretty good at sticking to my decition. I actually feel like a smoker who has finally decited in his heart to stop smoking.
The reason for this decition of mine is unwelcome weight-gaining. The reasons for this weight-gaining are:
1) No moving almost at all since I live at the school where I study and and I don´t ever have to go anywhere exept maybe once in a while to the supermarket across the street.
2) Eating as normal despite the lack of exercise.

Now I have at least changed the second one. And i actually do go out and walk or run when I have time and can be bothered. So I have a weak hope of fitting into my fabulous red dress I intend to wear at Christmas.
...Ok, I´m exaggerating. I could theoratically fit into now, I guess, but it would just be a bit too tight and unconfortable.

I forgot...

I forgot to tell you yesterday that the weekend 9.-11. of December will be a family- and friends´ weekend, and that then we will play the musical, Twist and Shout for your family and friends. Oh, and any family or friends of mine are welcome to come, although I don´t expect so many... Just in case somebody was going to Denmark anyways or sometyhing. And I would have to be notified with some time in advance, even though I haven´t really notified you with a lot of time in advance... Sorry about that :o/

But as they say: It is always nice to be invited even though you´re not able to go ;o)

Twist´n shout!!

The coments on the last post were all so nice.. thanks so much for them. They gave me butterflies in my stomach ;o)

I feel I should tell a little bit about what I have been doing here... So in short: We practised Peer Gynt for 2 or 3 weeks and then we showed it and went on a little 2 day tour with it. We played it 5 times in 3 days. It was quite fun. A lot of work and little sleep. Fyrst two times we played it here in Toftlund, then we played in a Red Cross- refugie-center (don´t know if is spelled right), then in a bording school for music and drama and then once in Århus. It mostly went well. Differently well though... But now it is all over with Peer Gynt and all on with Twist´n shout!! which is a musical where all the students at the school partisipate, music- singing- theater and soundtecnitian-line. It is a musical that takes place in the 60´s and we have only 2 weeks to reherse it. We have been rehersing for 1 week and now there is almost 1 left. We have to be optimistic though, and we haven´t been doing anything else and won´t be doing anything else the next week, so I am shure it is gonna turn out fine :o)

Daydreaming

I have not been able to think of much else then travelling through South America since I saw this great movie the day before yesterday: Motorcykle Diaries. It totally brought me back there and reminded me that I am not finnished with South America. I was in Ecuador for almost a year but I could not travel very much and I didn´t go to any of the countries around.
It would be great to start somewhere in the south, in Brazil or Argentina, and go north. Go to Chile, Peru, see Machupichu, stop of course in Ecuador, in Cuenca and Montanita, and go further to Cuba and end for example in Mexico or in the United States. Or I could go from the north to the south. It wouldn´t really matter. And just travel as light as possible and enjoy life.

Let the world change you, and you can change the world!

Reykjavik...

I miss Reykjavik a little bit right now. I miss walking the streets and then maybe go into a café, perhaps meeting someone there or just bringing a book. I have walked the streets of Toftlund, and it is ok, but they aren´t very many and after a very short walk I have walked them all and it just gets a bit boring after a while... And there are no cafés. I miss cafés. Well most of the time I just hang at the school since it is really a world of it´s own and we actually have a hangout-place here that is called "the café" and it´s really nice, but it is just not the same.
But I enjoy being here so much and actually I am deciting right now to stop being nostalgic and just enjoy this here to the fullest while it lasts cause I´ll regret it if I don´t.

But i still love Reykjavik. It´s my favourite place at the moment ;o)