I've always enjoyed acting, but never explored it as much as I did this summer. Since the age of 6 I've regularly been apart of The Greenbelt Art Center's musical productions, through Creative Kids Camp, Camp Encore, or the Winter Youth Musical, which I'll be posting about in the future I do enjoy musical theater, but my passion is definitely acting. During august of summer 2012 I traveled to Vermont to stay with one of my best friends, Barbara, and do Shakespeare camp. Get Thee to the Funnery was an amazing camp and although it sounds cliche, really changed my life. The camp is unique in many ways, like helping the campers with voice and face warmups as well as things like yoga and meditation. We were a tight knit community, and I'm still in tough with many of the campers and counselors.
It's really strange to be able to say I have over 40 people that I love and care about in Vermont, but it's true. I've also made connections to people in England and Ireland Through camp. My family who are traveling to Ireland for 2 weeks in June, will be visiting my friend from camp there, which just goes to show how small this world is.
Since I've returned home I've been pursuing acting even more(not to successfully yet), and practicing both yoga and meditation on my own. The play I acted in, Much Ado About Nothing, actually helps me recognize references to Shakespeare in modern literature, which has been very interesting. During our production, which was the farthest thing from traditional, we divided up the script into scenes. I got to act as Benedick, Friar Francis, Balthazar, and a messenger. The camp was a great experience and worth going to again.
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