I arrived in LA two days ago for my two month acting-work-study-gig. I know it's passé to say you are studying acting in LA, but I still can't believe I am here!
I was fortunate to be able to stopover in London for four days and spent an amazing time with my brother and his family who live there. My sister just relocated to the UK from Cape Town and is staying with them so I got to see TWO of my siblings!
My sister landed her dream job at some multinational food science factory the day I arrived... this girl has A+++++++ grades and knows how sodium decompresses with gluten to form bio synthetic waves that keep crisps fresh and stuff like that. She worked incredibly hard to land this job - so it was big news!
I wanted to inhale every moment with my family - the last time we were together was 2 years ago! I loved holding 12 week old Kaiyah in my arms and did not want to put her down, which of course ruined her mom's sleep training, but I could not help myself -she is after all my first niece! The house was a hive of activity with a 2 year old, a 12 week old and a hyperactive dog, I realized how quiet my life is in comparison, but was relieved to know that I could return to my peace afterwards!
When it was time to leave, I shed a few large tears - even the thought of a dream holiday/work gig on the other side of the plane journey could not close the floodgates. My family are so special and there is nothing that can ever replace time spent with them. Love you guys!!
So with a drizzle in my eye I left for LAX - after a 4 hour plane delay and a 2am arrival with no one to meet me at the airport except my budget sardine can rental car, I felt really tired, grumpy and wanted my own bed. Because of the delay I had to kill time till 9am to do the key pick up for my apartment in Beverly Hills, so I drove around in the middle of the night and suddenly all grumpiness left me as I realized what an amazing opportunity I had to drive around the LA streetlights for the first time in my life and get familiar with my new neighborhood.
The last two days have been about getting organized and I now have my class schedule for Edgemar Centre for the Arts - I'm doing 4 classes a week (Scene Study, On Camera Cold Reading, Improv and Voice Classes) and then I have 4 x 5 hour work slots in between classes each week where I will be working for Producer/Director and Acting coach, Michelle Danner.
I pestered Michelle for 4 months to give me this work study opportunity after doing one of her courses in Dubai and honestly said I'd walk her dog or babysit her kid if it came to that, but luckily she has a very exciting movie coming up that she is directing so I have been roped in to do pre-production and casting for that, so am really grateful that I will get the opportunity to actually work on prep for a movie in LA - that's supercool.
To start - I've got a movie script to read, a 140 page musical to review and improv class tmrw. But right now - I am off to the park down the road for a jog. I hope I see a flashing LAPD vehicle - it's still a novelty that I have only seen in the movies!
I just can't help wanting to jog down my street while the afternoon autumn sun sparkles through the maple trees. Aaaah maple trees, what a beautiful site after 2 years of deserts and palms!
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