Halie

So I finally caught a cold/cough, unfortunately. I was doing so well! It'd been the longest I'd not caught a cold over Winter in ages but alas, it was keen to snatch me up. The most depressing part is not being able to sing, I sing every goddamn day. What else does one do to pass the time when on the toilet but sing?? More annoyingly, I have an audition/interview/workshop at University of Exeter tomorrow and the day after. Luckily I don't have to sing or prepare a monologue so that's cool. The audition is more based on how well you do in the workshop. So this lass needs to be confident!

I have two other workshop-based auditions in Bristol and Manchester in February, then a monologue/song based audition at Central School of Speech and Drama in April. That last one is the biggie! It's my top choice. Extremely nervous about that one but luckily I've got a lot more time to prepare. They sent me a list of monologues to choose from, which I have to perform in front of the group of fellow auditionees I'm placed with. Yikes!

I watched Django Unchained last night, it was ****ing awesome! One of the best films I've ever seen, absolutely loved it. Right up there with Pulp Fiction me reckons. This coming from someone who isn't a fan of blood and gore (a bit squeamish, me) but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. I also watched Les Mis the other week, after being excited about it for nearly a year. I absolutely loved it, my friend Sarah and wept like babies all the way through haha. When we came out of the screen room, there was a huge queue of people waiting to watch the next showing, and they all looked at me funnily because I had these huge, red puffy eyes from crying, you could just tell they were like "Oh shit, what are we getting ourselves into..." lol. Nonetheless, Anne Hathaway deserves an Oscar and Eddie Redmayne deserves a lot more recognition, he was brilliant. My favourite Marius so far. =D

We're all starting to get a bit scared and weary now in my year. We've all sent off our applications and uni offers are coming in so it's all getting very real haha. It's dawning on me that I'm not going to be with my friends next year and I'll have to go make new ones D: that scares the shit out of me, being completely on my own without my family and friends. I know it was my own choice to go study outside of the country but even so, I am bricking it lol. My dad's getting upset, too. >.<

Right, I'm off to go run lines now. G'day mateys, have a good'n.

Haliiieee