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No more Musik og Teater- Højskole...

2005-12-18T21:02:00.000-08:00

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

2005-12-09T19:21:00.000-08:00

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!

2005-12-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

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

2005-11-29T19:52:00.000-08:00

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...

2005-11-29T19:43:00.000-08:00

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!!

2005-11-28T19:00:00.000-08:00

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

2005-11-20T17:48:00.000-08:00

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...

2005-11-09T18:00:00.000-08:00

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)

Dansing!

2005-11-03T12:31:00.000-08:00

I have been quite lazy to write stuff... But this time I blame the school, since there has been no internet and they don´t do anything about it. Or at least so it seems. It can be quite irritating. But I am at the library now and I am going to write a little to better my consios a bit..

Last weekend was just the best! And the best thing about it was the visit of Anja (my great friend from Germany) and Thomas (my great friend from Norway). Thanks guys for comming. It was so so nice to have you visit! I had so much fun :o) Anyways. On friday there was a halloween-party here at the school where everybody dressed up as something scary, but since me, Anja and Thomas didn´t come up with anything scary to wear we just took all kinds of things and put them on. Thomas ended up as a glam-rocker, but me and Anja just ended up as piles of something that did not fit very well together. And actually that was our theme: Not matching! it was so much fun. And people from the school were commenting efterwards on how nice my friends were. And I aggried of course ;o)

The three of us left the party for a bit of time to visit the only bar in town, that I had never gone to before since we always just party at the school, and also the crowd at the bar is not really the most interesting one (I am sorry if this sounds arrogant..). The bar is called Spar-to, and there Anja was attacked by a jewish lesbian who didn´t really like Germans. There was no physical violance involved, but she just started talking about how the Germans had harmed her people more then 40 years before Anja was born. I don´t know if you can call it an oral attack..? But when she found out that Anja was not evil, despite being a German, the poor woman started to looove her and she begun to tell her life-story. Apperantly she just found out a year ago that she was adoppted and that her real parents had been jews. Then she suddently decited to stop being a christian priest (as she had been for many years) and becom a super-jew, and is now considering becomming a rabby (this is probably not right spelled, I am talking about a jewish priest). One can ask oneself how strong her faith must have been all those years...

Anja and Thomas had to leave on sunday, but life goes on, and last night some students at the school decited to danse in the theater-house. It was so much fun! Probably among the funnest things I have ever done.. They just put on music and then from 8 o´clock until 10 everybody who wanted to came and just dansed. And there was nothing about dansing beautyfully. Just let it loose and move in every which way. Totally freestile. I am now officially going to do it regularly at home. Who cares about the neighbours downstairs...

Wednesdaynight ;o)

2005-10-26T22:03:00.000-07:00

It´s unbelievelbe... until now I have really just been relaxing but now all of a sudden there is so so much to do... There is the Peer Gynt-play (where I play Solvejg ! ;), and then I started solo-theater-classes and I have to learn a monoloug in Danish before monday (I am Nina in The Seagull by Checkov). Aanndddd I have to help with the scenography and the costumes for Peer gynt. It is quite overwhelming, since I am a huge perfectionist and want to all those things perfectly. I love to do all those things, but it is just a little bit much at one time...
I am feeling way better about the whole thing now though then this morning... I was quite stressed. And I am quite on my way with the monoloug.. Have actually learnt half of it by heart. So it is not so bad indeed. An then i had such a great class today, that is called personal development, and it made me feel so much more positive about everything, as id does actually every wednesday. So now you know that while I am here my best mood is going to be wednesdaynights ;o)

A quiet weekend

2005-10-22T22:24:00.000-07:00

Hmmm.. It´s been quite a while since I last wrote anything. Well, I´m lazy. But at least I try.
Right now it is very quiet here in Musik og Teater Højskolen because so many people have gone home over the weekend. It is quite cosy, but right now I am just in a mood for a real party so I want more people... But it´s gonna be fun anyways.

This week we read the play about Peer Gynt (Pétur Gaut) by Henrik Ibsen. I have never known the story, and it is really quite a facinating adventure. Look foreward to working on it a lot.
Otherwise these acting classes have been quite a workout and I have had bruses all over, specially on my knees for some reason... And then my back has been bothering me and my muscles have been sore from all the workout.. I have basically been feeling a like an old lady trying to move around. But not so much anymore, since sitting and reading Peer Gynt out loud with the others has mostly been hard for my ass... and my back.

Last weekend I went on an amaizing trip to Århus. I love Århus. It is the nicest town. I think that if I would live in Denmark I would probably live in Århus... or Cobenhagen. Both places are great, but Århus is just a bit smaller, maybe a bit more my size.

I am going to join the others at the Café now (a room in the school that we call that) and empty a bearbottle or two..
Good night ;o)

Berlin

2005-10-10T17:30:00.000-07:00

I just want to write a short post a bout Berlin. In Berlin I didn´t bother to look for a computer and then when i got home to the school the internet was down for some reson and it still is. Right now I am at the library in town. But I have to go eat dinner in a short while so I better make is short...

Anyways. Berlin... I just have to say that I have never ever in my life done so many cultural and sifistcated things in such a short time. In a week I whent three times to the theater (saw A Winterstale by Shakespere, Dollhouse by Ibsen and then a play that had an awfully complicated name in German and I just can not remember it in English), once to the Opera (saw La Bohem), once to a heavy metal consert (Dream Theater), once to some kind of a sirkus show, which was enourmly cool, and then to many historical places and art shows, including a show of the work of Pablo Picasso himself. And then of course we partied as much as our bodies allowed us. It was actually the best trip, and totally without any stress, at least form my part.

In this trip everyone got to know one and other quite a bit better and now you hardly notice that there are students that have been here longher then others, cause everyone has been able to blend in quite well.
And there is one thing that like so much about this school here, and theat is that there are no popular people and no nerds. Everyone speaks to everyone and you just sit where there is a free seat. I just love that atmosphere ;o)

Super!

2005-09-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

I´m going to Berlin in 4 days! It´s a school trip, and we have been learning all kinds of things about Berlin the last days, many of which everyone already knew but interesting anyways. We will be there a week and we will go to see all sorts of cultural stuff, including a few plays and musicals, which I am very much looking foreward to see.
This week is a so-called "project-week", where we all do some project connected to Germany. Some are gonna do music, one group is going to do a song from Cabaret, one is going to make a dupted german fusion-film and so on. My group on the other hand is going to make a soupopera-show. A bad german soupopera. It´s gonna be in danish though and I don´t really know what is going to be german about it, but apperantly we will be some german steriotypes. I guess the danish know more about german steriotypes then I do. But it´s gonna be fun. There is gonna be a very calm dad, a mother who wants to have sex all the time, a nerd son, a punk daughter, a supergood girl who is ingaged to a super-dumb pumping guy and a superbitch who´s goal is to steal the super-dumb pumping guy away from the supergood girl. I will play the role of the superbitch. Well, you probably guessed that...

We are gonna start filming today and it´s gonna be superfun ;oD

My address in Denmark

2005-09-26T00:50:00.000-07:00

I was always gonna write my address down here, and sorry to Anja that I haven´t done it before, I will probably just send it to you in an e-mail aswell ;o)
Well, here it is:

Musik og teater høskole
Herrestedegade 6-8
6502 Toftlund
Denmark

(Tinna Thorvadsdottir)

There you have it. In case anybody has the urge to send me something that person is very welcome to do it ;o)

Death metal

2005-09-22T23:10:00.000-07:00

I don´t have anything spesific to write about... am just sitting here, listening to death metal-music that some boys in the next computer are playing and shaking my head so that my hair goes in every which way... and I´m writing at the same time! ...Is that possible?

Tonight we played an orientation-game. It was fun. My team lost. Big time. Still we were walking around all the time doing something, but we didn´t get to do half the things we were supposed to. I guess we didn´t take the game seriously enough. I don´t know why, but my teams tend to loose at what ever it is that is being played. I still want to believe that it is not always my fault...

Blending in

2005-09-21T18:48:00.000-07:00

As I have said before I am at a school in Denmark and I will be here for 3 months, studying the art of theater. I came on friday, but we were only about 9 that came last weekend. The rest (about 30 people) has been here since the beginning of august and because they have been here together for so long they all know each other so well and are so close and have all these inside-jokes so it makes it a bit difficult to blend in... But however, they are all quite nice and try as they can to keep control over the inside jokes. And then we, the new ones, have not even been here for a week so there is gonna be enough time to get to know everyone and blend in. But then there is another problem which is the language. I have of course my hischool-danish and I was always quite good at it, but here I am not. I can understand them if they don´t speak too fast or unclear, but it takes up a lot of energy having to listen so hard all the time and trying to speak, so I get quite exhausted in the end of the day. I better practice if I´m not gonna be stuck with only extra-roles...

Idol-mess..

2005-09-18T14:21:00.000-07:00

I want to make an anouncement. Or a confession. First I am going to make a confession and then an anouncement connected to the confession.
Confession: I partissipated in Idol (as maybe many of you know already), and it did not go well.
Anouncement: The reason for it not going so well... Or let´s just be honest: The reson for it being horrible was not my inability to sing but the fact that I have almost no practice in singing with an audience, and the judges in Idol are quite a tough audience...

So then you have it... I just did not want you to think I was one of those nut-jobs that are convinced they are the best singers in the world without being able to squeese up a claer note.
I don´t know if they will air any clips with me singing, or if they maybe have already aired any, but I just wanted everyone to know this in case they´d see me on tv. But I pray to the universe that they won´t use my clips. I would actually prefer if the clips would get lost somehow, and for some weird reason they would catch fire and burn to ashes. But, oh well. I can´t controle this so I better just stop thinking about it...

Good night and sweet dreams ;o)
Tinna

You can comment now...

2005-09-18T14:15:00.000-07:00

Apperantly only registerred bloggers were alowed to comment on my blog, but now I have changed it. So feel free to say what ever you want to say in case you have something to say...

??!!!

2005-09-17T21:42:00.000-07:00

Oh wow! I can´t believe I actually created a blog so soon!! I know I promised to do it, but having know miself for quite a long time I didn´t think I´d get around to it nearly so soon.
And as people of different nationalities will be reading this (hopefully) I decited to make it in English, not Icelndic...

It is complicated to start a blog... you have to make difficult decitions like: Which address should I have?... And which title..? It has to be a cool title, so it can´t just be my name or anything, and it can´t be too chease or wannabe. So in the end I chose to name my blog after my favourite cout from the book: "By the river Piedra I sat down and wept", by Paulo Coehlo. Hope it works. That means though that I have to change my msn name... it´s just not cool to have the same.

Ok... well, as most of you know I arrived to Denmark yesterday, and am now at a "folkehojskole" in Jylland, and on monday I will start studying drama. Everybody seems very friendly and at first sight I like it here. But Í have been here such a short time that I don´t have too much to say about it... have to figure things out and get to know everyone better.

And Ecudore-friends: I am endlessly sorry for my long silence... I don´t know what to say. I was just struck by huge lazyness. I hardly even checked my e-mail for a month... and then there was just too much to tell so I couldn´t be bothered starting on a mail not knowing for how long I would have to sit and write, telling about everything that had happened.

Well now I have finnished my first article (or whatever to call it). I couldn´t be prouder of miself ;o)
And it would be much appreciated if you would comment on this noncense so that I know you are reading... :o)

Tinna