This is late, but i’ve been busy, what else can I say? Finding the balance between working on my writing, generating steady income, and progressing with creative projects has been grueling. However, It’s been a satisfying challenge. We all struggle and for the first time in awhile, I feel like i’m struggling for a good reason. But that’s a piece for another day, I digress.
So this past 4th of July weekend I had the honor of working the second annual DreamonFest. which is a music and ice cream festival in Pittsburgh, PA, in the middle of market square.
I joined a team of six (Joshua, Steve, Patrick, Thomas, Andrew, and John) who partnered with 15 highschool and GED students currently excelling in inner city schools, agreeing to give them part ownership of the event. The partnership was meant to promote entrepreneurship in inner city youth. The event itself was meant to promote community unity and was a great opportunity to show off
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It was my job to connect to our audience in all areas of social media; by providing great sights, sounds and commentary of the event. Sounded easy enough. The only hurdle was the fact, going into the weekend, I was completely oblivious.
Not only was it my first time meeting a majority of the people I would be working with. I was doing it in a completely new environment. I have never been to Pittsburgh before. So I had no clue how the scene would develop, what kind of audience I was connecting to and didn’t know how big my role would actually be. I couldn’t even tell you what kind of music would be playing.
Even with so much unknown, I was far more excited than I was nervous. There was a buzz amongst the team that the event could be big. So I was just happy to be given the opportunity to be a part of it. My expectations were modest but my hopes were high.
However what proceeded to happen over the next 3 days blew away any scenario I could have ever dreamed up on my
Me, Ava, Korryn, Ali, Olyvia, Bailey, and Sophie were on the way to valley fair. The loud and crowded car ride was filled with music, laughter and Sophie screaming! We got some drinks and snacks along the way and played pranks on the people that our nanny Bailey went to highschool with. About 2 hours later we were there and waiting in line to get wristbands. When we finally got our wristbands we walked in the gates of Valley Fair.
It was worth being nervous because I got to experience performing in front of people and feeling like I belong. I got to see smiles and see my family very proud of me. Seeing the smiles and hearing good job from my parents made me want to do it all over again.
The whole experience exceeded my expectations by far. I was just happy that we made it that far yet alone won. So far in my life, it was the most exciting/scariest moment I have ever been
The morning of the dress rehearsal I go over my lines once more. The cast was told that we would go to first and second and then leave for third. Some people were so nervous they were biting, some running around with excitement. As for me I feel excited but as the show gets closer and closer my mind is having confits. We get to the stage and put on our costumes and makeup. My hands were so shaky I had to have someone else do my make up.
“Petlon get in there,”Coach said. At first I was like what does he mean. I was confused because at the time Eli was a better center. I figured I should hustle out there and give it my best try, so that’s what I did.
I found relaxing bamboo flute music on YouTube when I was doing bad in school. This soothing flute music helped me to control all my built up energy. I feel like this music helped me to concentrate and it also helped me focus. It was during the middle of freshman year I realized that I had a lot of trouble concentrating so I looked up relaxing music. Once I heard the bamboo flute I felt it calm me down. Like when I listen to this music I can concentrate better. When ever I am upset or angry I put this song on and my feelings just go away, it's like the music puts me into a dreamland. Growing up I always would have a hard to paying attention and concentrating but when I heard the bamboo flute I felt like it changed me.
Of course I was the first to be called up to give my introduction speech! Perhaps because my professor knew me so well? Who knows… but I was actually glad that I was chosen first because I get to set the bar without having to worry about competing with the previous speeches. So with that positive mindset, my anxiety levels were really low. On a scale from one to ten I’d say I was a solid two! As soon as I was about to speak I observed my audience, their faces, movements, and eyes. All the attention was on me and I got right into my zone.
I was nervous and worried about the event, simply because I did not know what to expect. Most of what is depicted on social media and television is negative, or steered toward creating a sense of hopelessness
It was pretty hectic getting everyone ready on time to warm-up in the music room and get their makeup and costume on. Because of the fact that it was our first performance, as a whole cast,we didn’t know what to expect from it. So everyone was all over the place worrying about what they had to do. Every time I
The room was open and cool, favorable to make sure everyone can see and hear what we had to say. One by one each board member, each with their own information to share went on until it was my turn. Once I got up in front of all the people, the nerves and pressure seemed to disappear from my shoulders, like putting down an old burden. As I talked, I relaxed and got comfortable with the audience, cracking jokes to ease any of my leftover tensions. Once I was done I sat down, and realized how easy it was for me to speak in front of all those people.
Just three weeks ago, I said a final goodbye to my “hamster wheel”, the 9-5 regime, after 20 long (and incredibly rewarding) years working for a world-class company and I started my new chapter in life. Writing will be one major part of it looking forward, my next, but the best 20 years, as I envision it.
I was very excited about my first rehearsal because I took the time to plan everything out. The best thing I did was to plan ahead of time, during my first rehearsal i taught a minute and three seconds which was the whole beginning of my dance when Alexandra, the female dancer, looked like she was struggling to show the boys that she is capable of doing what they can do but the male dancers kept pushing her away because they thought she was never going to do half of the things they do. After this rehearsal, i was able to see that it was not going to be so hard for me to get through this process because I made sure that I was
Well the dream first started out with a bit of a background information scene. I, my mother, my sister, and another guy was in the spare room of my house. My mom was s I sewing or seaming a coat that had army camo on it, it was my crush’s coat. My mom and my sister couldn’t understand how to pronounce the name on the breast pocket. I kept telling them how to say it but the just wouldn’t listen. They turned to the only male in the room and asked him, he told them that I was right. I turned to him and thanked him, he nodded his head. In my mother’s closet sorting clothes and I saw two jackets hanging up in, what was to me, a pool of golden light. One was a heavy winter coat that was army camouflage, I automatically recognized it as the coat my
Dad was enjoying this, too, but was getting a little tense, he said, “Grab the ropes with your
Some days, I’m so sure of my purpose that I fill in the metaphorical blank spaces on the paper of my life with enthusiasm and self-assurance; I will accept the transitions in my life with grace and sureness, I will thrive on adversity and know without a doubt that I am doing the things I am meant to do. This is a lot like writing on a subject you are intimately familiar with – like an astronaut writing on the wonders of space, or a singer describing the rush of performing. While life isn’t always so clear, and we don’t always get to write on the things we know, the times that I experience this clarity give me the strength to press on during the times of uncertainty. Sometimes I hit rough patches – life has a way of interrupting the flow of your writing – much like writers’ block. Sometimes, all it takes is putting the pen down, stepping away from the paper, and taking a breather. Other times, it takes scrapping an entire chapter and starting all over again. I’ve learned that life is full of chaos, and you can choose to adapt, or you can choose to fight it – you can spend weeks, months, years, trying to develop a plotline that just isn’t working, or you can approach it from a different perspective and change it. I’ve been through my share of real-life writers’ blocks, and I’ve learned that they never last. Even if it seems like the story will never move on, it eventually will; it just takes