SNOW!! And Auditions

This morning I woke up and went to the dance call portion of my audition for the Steinhardt spring shows. Came home, did some work, and around 4 my roommate came home and made a comment about it snowing outside. I looked out the window and sure enough, it was snowing!! I'm not ashamed to admit that I opened the window (well, as far open as it'll go) and sat by the window for a solid half hour watching the snow fall. And then I got cold so I closed the window, but I still sat by and watched the snowflakes. It was so cool to see the cars and trees (as many trees as there are in New York City) covered in snow. And then later when I left to get a sandwich for dinner, it smelled fresh and it felt kind of like I was walking around in Tahoe or something. Definitely had a dorky grin on my face. I know all my friends will probably make fun of me for being so excited about snow, of all things, but it's so exciting to live in a city where it actually snows! I don't have to drive four to six hours to see snow, it's right outside my building!

In other news, I'm done with three fourths of my auditions for the spring semester. My dance audition for Once on This Island went fairly well, the dance was not what I was expecting. It was set to "We Dance" and I guess I was expecting something more jazzy but it was more hip hop. The choreographer's name is Melissa, which is cool. When they called my name to go up, she was like "My name is Melissa too!". My singing audition went extremely well, I think. After I sang the director said I had a really pretty voice, and when he asked if I was studying musical theater or classical and I said I was musical theater, he said "Well good, we need more voices like yours". They canceled callbacks for OOTI and I don't find out anything until either Friday or Saturday. This morning was my dance call for Carousel, and it actually went surprisingly well. They split it up into girls first for an hour and a half, and then guys, and I was in the first big chunk of girls to go. I think I was one of two freshman in that entire group of at least 25 girls. It turns out that I already knew the combination the choreographer was teaching us because it's my ballet teacher, MK, and she taught the dance to us last week in ballet, saying it was just some combination she wanted to teach us. When we went to perform the combo, I was in the second to last group. After we were done, my friend Kaitlyn (she's a junior) said that I did a really good job and that I looked great out there, which was really nice of her to say. So now I've just got my audition on Wednesday at 7:05, and then if I get any callbacks those are Thursday and Friday I think, and then I found out either Friday or Saturday what I've been cast in, if anything. Fingers crossed!