So this was our first year in our first house that we got to do the whole hand out candy to the neighborhood kids.
Coming from Boston originally I was used to cabbage night (the night before Halloween where people go around and TP your home and smash our pumpkins) and tons of kids from 5-18 trick or treating and grabbing as much candy as they can and leaving before they look you in the eye. So I prepared myself, bought a lot of candy and got ready to scoop it out.
In St. Louis the whole Halloween thing is way different and much more composed. First off there is no cabbage night here. Kids also stop trick or treating in middle school here so you only get the cuties chaperoned by their parents. The best most surprising part was that every child that came to the door told a joke took one piece of candy and said thank you as they left.
No joke, I was shocked.
We later went to a friends house and I had to ask everyone there who was raised here if they grew up telling jokes for candy, and they all looked at me as if that was the only way.
I guess St. Louis is a polite trick or treating place!
As a side note, Pig our dog dressed up in a pig costume and was a pig this halloween.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Creating
The more I work in this catering kitchen the more I like it. I don't see it as my long-term career plan but there is something wonderful about getting lost in your head while making 400 gooey butter cookies.
I have started working for this great theatre company in St. Louis, and they happen to do a lot of educational work. They have grown a bunch in the last 3 years and now have their own space to work out of permently. You theatre people out there know how hard that is to come by.
So as I was creating, making and baking all these cookies yesterday I came up with this wonderful idea for a class that I could teach at this company. I have to pitch it to them today and if they like it I will tell you all about it!
I have started working for this great theatre company in St. Louis, and they happen to do a lot of educational work. They have grown a bunch in the last 3 years and now have their own space to work out of permently. You theatre people out there know how hard that is to come by.
So as I was creating, making and baking all these cookies yesterday I came up with this wonderful idea for a class that I could teach at this company. I have to pitch it to them today and if they like it I will tell you all about it!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Bike Race
I was the first girl in a semi-bike race this past weekend. It was called Tour De Moose. A bartender at a bar in South City called Lemon's has done this for 3 years in honor of his birthday.
I think that they called it a race, but really it was supposed to be about the beer. It was a pub-crawl from bar to bar to bar (about 6 in total). All around the City area, from South City to The Hill to Downtown, Soulard and Back! There were about 60 people in the race this year we were told and about 1/3 of them woman. Everyone was there to have a good time and drink and race. There were rules and maps so nobody would get hurt. And the best rule of all was that everyone had to wear a helmet.
I am competitive when it comes to women and biking. Something weird comes over me, I get energy from places I never knew I had, and I have the urge to out do any woman on a bike.
This started in Brooklyn, NY on the Williamsburg Bridge when I decided to go over faster and faster each time and pass as many people as I could. I found out that I could pass people, and I would get a surge as I did.
Since moving here to St. Louis, I have not been on my bike as much, but when I do get on my energy comes back and I am a speed racer.
I think a lot of it has to do with riding with my husband who is a great rider himself. He is taller, faster and better on a bike than me. Also I never beat people at anything, and since I found something that I can do pretty well I am taking pride in it.
So, I think that we have found a new St. Louis yearly tradition, The Tour De Moose!
I think that they called it a race, but really it was supposed to be about the beer. It was a pub-crawl from bar to bar to bar (about 6 in total). All around the City area, from South City to The Hill to Downtown, Soulard and Back! There were about 60 people in the race this year we were told and about 1/3 of them woman. Everyone was there to have a good time and drink and race. There were rules and maps so nobody would get hurt. And the best rule of all was that everyone had to wear a helmet.
I am competitive when it comes to women and biking. Something weird comes over me, I get energy from places I never knew I had, and I have the urge to out do any woman on a bike.
This started in Brooklyn, NY on the Williamsburg Bridge when I decided to go over faster and faster each time and pass as many people as I could. I found out that I could pass people, and I would get a surge as I did.
Since moving here to St. Louis, I have not been on my bike as much, but when I do get on my energy comes back and I am a speed racer.
I think a lot of it has to do with riding with my husband who is a great rider himself. He is taller, faster and better on a bike than me. Also I never beat people at anything, and since I found something that I can do pretty well I am taking pride in it.
So, I think that we have found a new St. Louis yearly tradition, The Tour De Moose!
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
I think I have it
After some long thought and a bought of sickness and leaving the job that I have had here the longest, I am pretty sure that I know what I want to do.
A little thing called money held me back from admitting this one for a while but I want to go back to school to get my teaching certificate in theatre education. I will also get my masters but I will do that once I have a job so that the school that I teach in can pay me to do so.
The prospect of going back to school to teach theatre used to feel like the last resort option, the giving up option the well I couldn’t make it as a director so I'll just teach option. As I have gotten older I think I realize that it's an option I looked past when I shouldn't have.
What I enjoy doing is working and being in the theatre. I love the process, the discovery the drive and energy that it gives me. I think that without theatre in my life at such a young age, I would be a totally different person. I owe so many job interviews that I nailed to theatre training. I am able to think on my feet and be creative and throw everything away and change my plan at a moments notice because of all my training in the theater. I can improv, create, think in a sequenceal order and plan an entire experience because of theatre. I could go on, but basically what I am saying is that since everything that I can do, and the parts of life that I excel in all go back to theater, why would I not share that with students that could possibly benefit from that knowledge.
I think that it's extremely important to have arts education in school, and I think that being able the think creatively gives students another option and way of doing something.
So, back to school I go. The only school that it in the St. Louis area that gives you your teachers certificate in theatre education is Fontbonne University, which I hear is a good school for local teachers. It also happens to be 1 mile from my home! I will have to take a lot of classes that I would have taken in my undergrad if I had known that I wanted to teach such as psychology and basic teaching, but I think that know 5 years out of school I will benefit from that knowledge.
I am a bit scared because yes it will cost money, and take 2 years, but it will also make my brain have to work in the school way again, which I am not to sure I'm really totally ready for.
Also, something that will be in the picture this time around will be the possibility of having a child while taking class. That will also be something new and uncertain.
I guess at the end of it all, in 10 years I can look back on this and say wow that was hard, thank goodness I did it and look at my super cool job that I have now!
A little thing called money held me back from admitting this one for a while but I want to go back to school to get my teaching certificate in theatre education. I will also get my masters but I will do that once I have a job so that the school that I teach in can pay me to do so.
The prospect of going back to school to teach theatre used to feel like the last resort option, the giving up option the well I couldn’t make it as a director so I'll just teach option. As I have gotten older I think I realize that it's an option I looked past when I shouldn't have.
What I enjoy doing is working and being in the theatre. I love the process, the discovery the drive and energy that it gives me. I think that without theatre in my life at such a young age, I would be a totally different person. I owe so many job interviews that I nailed to theatre training. I am able to think on my feet and be creative and throw everything away and change my plan at a moments notice because of all my training in the theater. I can improv, create, think in a sequenceal order and plan an entire experience because of theatre. I could go on, but basically what I am saying is that since everything that I can do, and the parts of life that I excel in all go back to theater, why would I not share that with students that could possibly benefit from that knowledge.
I think that it's extremely important to have arts education in school, and I think that being able the think creatively gives students another option and way of doing something.
So, back to school I go. The only school that it in the St. Louis area that gives you your teachers certificate in theatre education is Fontbonne University, which I hear is a good school for local teachers. It also happens to be 1 mile from my home! I will have to take a lot of classes that I would have taken in my undergrad if I had known that I wanted to teach such as psychology and basic teaching, but I think that know 5 years out of school I will benefit from that knowledge.
I am a bit scared because yes it will cost money, and take 2 years, but it will also make my brain have to work in the school way again, which I am not to sure I'm really totally ready for.
Also, something that will be in the picture this time around will be the possibility of having a child while taking class. That will also be something new and uncertain.
I guess at the end of it all, in 10 years I can look back on this and say wow that was hard, thank goodness I did it and look at my super cool job that I have now!
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