Kiss Me Kate

Unfortunately I did not get to see the Penn State student production of Kiss Me Kate because I had to go home for a death in the family. So I had to result to the You Tube movie instead.... not nearly as entertaining as going to the theater. Especially for me because I have been dancing since the age of three and have gone to musicals just as HairSpray, Wicked, and even the comical Legally Blonde to name just a few.

It was also really hard to concentrate on the movie because the woman who played Lois's voice was giving me a really terrible headache. It is then broken up by Miss.Vanessi and the director banging things which is somewhat amusing because her object ends up not banging and at that point the conversation begins about the incident that had occurred early which add comic relief.

As I said I spent much of my life dancing so my favorite scenes in the movie were the dancing scenes The Too Darn Hot sequence was one of the most amusing to me because he kept a comedic personality through out the whole song which just added entertainment.

My favorite part though I will have to say is Brush up your Shakespeare. I think its hysterical that they say if your brush up on your Shakespeare you can easily get women they are just also so entertaining to watch their little tiny dance movements are just so funny. The best one how ever is when they talk about reciting a sonnet and saying your lap will have honey upon it. Its things like this that made this scene so funny.

I really wish that I could of seen the play at Penn State though because I honestly did not like the movie very much. Seeing a play is so much better than watching a movie about a play in a play at that point its over kill. Going to the theater is just a better experience because it makes you feel so much more engaged when just watching something online you feel miles away because you truly are. Also its hard to listen to all the singing without being in person because it seems like it drags on for ages at least if I was at the theater the rest of the experience would of made up for it because I have never been about the singing I like to see really great dancing which the movie only had some of.

number 10

Mrs. S,

I have done the SRTE



love,
Devon : )

changing over time

I am now 1/8 done with my time here at PSU (sounds kind of depressing), but I have grown in this short time already. I can do my own laundry, keep my room in somewhat decent order(my mom would definitely still disagree), manage my time, and still have time to myself. I learned how to drive for success. Specifically I was pushed to write things I would not normally write like an Ad analysis that was tricky, and probably my least favorite out of all of them, but that means I learned the most from it. I was taken out of my comfort zone luckily I got to revisit it with the memoir piece because It was writing about feelings and life experience which I had done through out all of high school . This class showed me high school is over and the real world is here, and there is going to be many things I don't want to do, but I will have to persevere through the difficult tasks if I want to survive here at Penn State. This semester has been a difficult one with all the turmoil here at school, but this class and the discussions have definitely helped me work through frustrations and keep level headed. I also definitely feel more well versed in the arts because of this class which is always a good quality to have. I learned that art is everywhere dreams, nature, etc.

I also learned about myself through this class how little sleep i could
run on while trying to edit papers and how much coffee I could drink. It was a shock to my system but I found it is possible the be an insomniac and still succeed. Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks should literally give me free coffee for a month for all I have contributed to their sales just based on long hours of paper writing. I will take all of the things I learned in this class and apply them to my next 7 semesters here and better yet the rest of my life.

Teacher's Readings

For my second arts requirement I chose the poetry read during class time by our lovely and talented teacher . Over all it was a great experience you see a person in front of you for months that the university tells you is qualified, but you do not really know until they prove it to you which the readings did for me. My favorite one in particular was the self portrait through amusement parks although I do not have a complete one yet I found I could relate up to this far with it, but with my own memories. The part about going down the slide and the ripping of the bathing suit reminded me of when me and my mother went down a water slide in tubes at the Jersey shore when I was 4 and she tipped it dunking me into the water.... I haven't gone with her on one sense. So to me it was easily relate able how tiny moments shape your entire life. How we all have a moment of family happiness like Maui or a point in life when we don't know what's next, but we are searching and hoping to find it. I deeply enjoyed hearing these readings.