Today I am extremely miserable.
My parents found my tortiose this morning who has fallen asleep forever. She will never wake up, they think that she must of had a heart problem that we didn't know about because up until that point, she was perfectly happy and healthy. So yes I am sad. I have just lost something that I have loved for many years and I don't think that I have fully excepted that I won't see her again.
I'm sorry for writing such a depressing thing but writing about it seems to be doing the trick of making it better and more real to me.
I think I may put another post on later an say what I have being up to during the last few weeks and what I am planning to do over the rest of the holidays.
Good bye.
Terri.

RCS - Day one

Hello there

So today was the first day at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at the summer course Acting with Text.

And it was amazing! the facilities and staff are brilliant and if I had the oppotunity I would love to study here for my BA. 

Started the day getting from the student halls to the School (the hall that are available are very well suited to the requirements needed for working students with the rooms being both spacious and clean). It wasn't a very long walk, about 15mins max and when we got there there was a talk on what would be happening during our stay here at the school.

When we met the people we were studying with we had a few ice breaker games so we could learn the guys names (all of which I have forgotten) and afterwards we were given some tasks and homework to do so it was a verrrry busy day!

^I'm sorry for sumarising so badly, I will go into more description tommorow but I am quite tired and I have to be up at half 8  so I kinda wanna get a good nights sleep :D.

Righto, cheerio now.

Terri ;D

^ BTW this is the info/ homework that I was given today! (not the hairbrush though :( thats there to stop the paper going wild and springing back...)

Just to let you know

Hey guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just to let you know that I am going to be going to a summer school acting workshop at the RCS next week starting monday and that I will be blogging about what we got up to each day there :D

^As you might of noticed I am very very very very excited about going as it is such a good opotunity to gain more knowledge about drama schools!!!!!!!!!

Going to start packing now as we will be heading up sunday!!!

Right, BYE.

The word drama --> Room 101

...

hello...

So I have spent my day doing nothing...

that is my news for my lovelys.

Basically today at my college they had a thing called Carrers day where people from different carrers gave talks on their jobs and how they got into the industry. And an actress was coming, only she didnt. So instead the drama teachers gave a talk on drama and teaching, telling us how brilliant teaching drama is and why we should do it at a bad university (chester to let you know) and how if you tried to become an actor it would be really boring and unfulfilling unlike teaching drama e.c.t.

Then at the end they said that if you want to be an actor then you should go to RADA and if you dont get in then it will never happen.

... I was fuming. 

It said on the schedual that we would be given infomation about how to become an actor like how we should prepare for auditions and the other stuff like that.  But this ^ not a single bit of basic infomation was given...

And I have decided that I hate the word drama. Its false and I hated drama lessons at high school as they caused me alot of pain.

I am now going to try and daydream about Jon Snow from game of thrones in a cave with me. Goodbye.

The awkward hello when you haven't seen a person for a long time because you have being avoiding them hello.

Hello,
If you are wondering about the title of this post it is because, well I have being avoiding this blog...
Im sorry people but I have had nothing to write about since my life have being, well, very dull for the past week and I have no (ish) stories to tell you all.
BUT now I do so I thought I might write it down, which I am doing now...
Anyways it is two weeks until I head up north to Glasgow to attend the Summer Course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am very excited/shitting ones self/god knows about the whole thing, I hope to learn a Scottish accent when Im over there as at the moment my accent is awful.
Also next friday I finish for the Summer Holidays!
However before I am free for 8 weeks we have to come in to attend two days, one of them is when people from different careers talk about their work and why they love it. It's called Careers day which is the most original name for it. Also on thursday we have to apply for UCAS and start our personal statements (which I have already done) so that sounds super fun.

In other news I have started watching Game of Thrones, I know that I am like three years behind everyone else but Im quite glad because I kind of know what is going to happen to people so I won't be too shocked when it happens. BTW Jon Snow is so dam hot! I don't give a dam if he is a bastard I would still have him easily. Also I am in love with the dwarf Tyrion and Starks youngest daughter Arya cos she kicks butt.

And because I am addicted to it I am going to leave this noisy room and watch a few episodes.
Adios 
Terri D

More Monologues...

Hello there people.
Since I have had an extremely busy week this is the first chance that I have had just to sit down and write on the blog for a while.
Manchester Met was A-MA-ZING! I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want to go there as there is such a buzz feeling there and I know Manchester like the back of my hand so it won't feel like I'm entering a foreign country.  
Anyway in other news I have bought a play called Port by Simon Stephens (by the same man who co-wrote the west end show A curious incident of a dog in the night-time.) Basically it's about this girl who comes from Stockport (like me) and just wants to get out, it tells her story from 1988 to 2002.  The main reason for buying this play was for my auditions in December/January because when I went to Manchester Met in the lecture they gave on the Acting course the man said that they wanted pieces which related to you in some way, especially with the contemporary one.
And for me, coming from Stockport and feeling similar things about the place to Racheal (the main character in the story) I just got her and could relate to her on many levels.
From it I have chosen tow bits from the play to try out tomorrow with my Drama teacher to see what she thinks. One of them technically isn't a monologue but it can easily mash together to make something like a monologue.

The first one is when Racheal is 22, it's new years eve in 1999 and she has just been physically assaulted my her Husband in a posh hotel room. He leaves her on the floor.

Stage directions - Stands up after a while. It hurts. She goes to pick up the wine glass. Drains it. Gets the wine bottle from the fridge and refills her glass. She goes where Kevin (The Husband) has dropped her phone and picks it up.

Sits back on the bed. Drinks from her glass. Phones her brother.

Racheal - Billy? It's me, Racheal. How are you? Good lad. Are you? That'll be good won't it? I'm ok love. I'm fine. I don't know. I don't think so. Kevin's had a bit of a bad one mate, you with me? No I'm fine. He's just. I hate him Billy. I want to kill him. I think I might. I fucking could. I bet you. No. I won't. No don't worry about that. I'll be fine. I will. I'll be be magic. I just wanted to talk to you. I was thinking about yer. Got yer perfume on. I have and all. I like it. It's really nice. Oh, fuck him. I think it's lovely. I just wanted to wish you Happy New Year. I now well. I'm doing it early aren't I? Happy New Year. I know. Happy New Century. Happy New Millennium. It's mental int it? Listen Mate, I'm gonna fuck off. I just wanted to, you know, I just wanted to talk to you. No I'll be fine. I'm cracking. Yeah I know. I love you Bill. Well. I do. I'll see you later. You have a good night mate. See you later.

She turns the phone off. Sits up on the bed. Staring out of the window.

Now this second one is when Racheal is 24 years old and it is 2002. She has been living in York for the past 10 months to get away from her abusive husband. She is in a beer garden and is talking to her old friend and ex Danny about what she sees what has changed in stockport while she has been gone.
(Please note people that I have edited this slightly so it will flow well as a monologue.)

Racheal - When I was a kid I used to think the clock tower in the Merseyway was massive. Fucking big skyscraper. I couldn't understand how come, when they had programmes about the tallest buildings in the world, I could't understand why they never mentioned the clock tower in the Merseyway. I went back there at the weekend. It's tiny. Very Squat. Really short. I was quite disappointed. 
Noticed the Viaduct. I'd never really paid any attention to it before. I never really noticed it. But I was looking at it, on my way into town. It's actually, y'know, it's quite impressive. There's something about it.
I noticed  how many pubs  there are. Pub's fucking everywhere in this place. A lot of the shops have changed. Smartened up a bit. Some of them are all right. And I was up at the station. Looking down. Noticed the way the valley curves down. When I was little, Used to love geography. All about continental drift. And the ice age. Stuff like that. And looking at the town centre I could just have imagined what it must of been like. All the ice and that. How it would of settled. See all the curves of where the water was like underneath the sea. That was a bit mad. 
Funny going back into manchester. All that rain. Went in with Billy. It was pissing down. Felt, kind of, it felt all right. Felt like it was meant to be raining here. Felt OK.


^Both these monologues will be on the monologue page if you want to get access to them more easily.
I understand that I don't write many monologues for males and Im sorry guys if you feel like I have a limited sources when it comes to that but I am a female so I will be looking for me.
No I need to get some food to get the alcohol which I consumed last night out of my system.
Cheerio,
Terri ;D

Updates people!

Hola!

So people so many things to update you guys about in the last couple of days.
Firstly that yesterday I started my application for Guildhall's BA Acting course, I need to wait until I get my grades in the summer and my references from my Drama teacher (plus another!) but I'm glad that if I have started then I will know that I need to finish it. (the deadline for London auditions is mid October.)
Next is that the open day for Manchester Met is tomorrow and there is a big talk on acting so clearly its a big course there, I am also meeting up with my friends before heading home to see my best friend off to her prom.
Then I've managed to get on to the Model United Nations team for a competition on friday which will be very good to put on the personal statement when I make another draft.
And finally my friend who I am going on the summer course with has just been signed by an agency! It looks really good and she is asking me if I want to also apply for it so I am going to look into it.
Now I need to sleep as I am extremely tired.
Adios
Terri ;D