WOWZA!!

At this moment in time I am sitting in my dorm room in the fantastic Manhattan. HOLY CRAP PANTS! I'M HERE!! The school is beautiful, the dorms are new and clean and everyone I've met so far is just as excited to be here as me. One block up from where I'm sitting (second star to the left) is the famous Riverside Church where MLK Jr. gave sermons. Directly across from me is the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant. Our neighboring universities are Columbia and Barnard and a mere skip and a jump away is the great Broadway.

HOLY CANNOLI, BATMAN! ROBIN IS ABOUT TO LOOSE HER MARBLES!!

2 feet away from me there is a practice room where I will be rehearsing (after my nap that is) the pieces I'm going to perform for the art directors tomorrow. It's not an audition but more of a placement thing so the directors can see where you are in your progress and what type of repertoire you have. To show off a range of pieces, I've decided to sing "The hours creep on a pace" by Gilbert and Sullivan (which is somewhere between musical theatre and opera. It's a comic piece about a girl who doesn't know whether she should marry a sailor for love or another suitor for money), "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine" (a classic from Show Boat), "Danza, Danza fancuilla gentile" (an Italian art song) and a classical English piece but I haven't yet decided which one.

Music and hyper-excitement aside, this morning I was in Rhode Island. I cannot express enough what wonders the sea does for the soul. I was only there for about 48 hours and I feel completely cleansed and rejuvenated. I could have spent weeks on that beach burying my feet in the sand, letting the sun kiss my face and filling my lungs with the magnificent scent of salt water. I immediately regressed back to my 5 year old self when I saw the waves rolling like thunderbolts across the water. It wasn't very long before I dove into the water with reckless abandon...and then realized it was FREAKING FREEZING...wonderful, blissful, joyous...but FREEZING. All the same, I swam, I rode the waves and I felt at home.

Huuuum. I'm kinda jonesing for a NY slice of pizza. Look out world! Here I come!

Peace, Love and NY!

Geni