5 days until I leave. It still hasn't hit that I'm leaving for London for a whole semester, and it probably won't until I'm there. This is my first time traveling alone to an alien place, and while exciting, such prospects also spawn butterflies in the pit of my stomach, but for now I'm just looking the other way and pretending they don't exist.
Today I made a list of everything to pack. It's a rather intimidating list, but many of the things are small in stature and will be easily squeezed in where space permits. So that makes me feel a little better, but the size of the list is still a little scary, especially when I don't know anything about where I'm going (something I should also remedy before leaving).
I guess I'll include a little bit about where I'm going. This semester I applied and got accepted to the London Dramatic Academy, a conservatory acting program accredited through Fordham University in New York. I'll be living in London at Heythrop College, a few minutes walk from the Fordham University Centre, which houses all the Fordham programs in London. I will not have a roommate and may or may not have a meal plan (if I do, it will only be partial). The number of students has yet to be revealed, but I understand it's a fairly small number, all in class together from 9-5 every day. Speaking of classes, I'll have 13. Here they are, from the LDA's website:
ACTING: Acting, Acting Shakespeare, Audition Tutorials
THEATRE HISTORY, LITERATURE & CRITICISM: Space, Place & Text, Dramatic Criticism
PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR ACTORS: Movement, Physical Theatre, Stage Combat, Period Dance, Alexander Technique
VOICE TRAINING FOR ACTORS: Voice, Speech/Dialect
I probably won't post again before I leave, unless something drastic happens (let's hope it won't). See you all on the other side!
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