Crazy???

So it has been a while since I last updated this blog so here I go!!! Well my Marching Band season is coming to an end this week. It has been a rough season, we have gone through a lot of staff changes and we have to deal with all sorts of problems which make mad just thinking about them so I will not go into detail with them. Anyway it has been four years that I have done this activity which is just so surprising because that is the most I have committed to something in my whole life I am pretty sure. Even though this has been a tough season I sad to see it come to an end because my four years of doing this activity is over!!!

Marching Band is not the only source of stress this year; I am completing an Internship at a local elementary school in a 3rd grade class. I am happy to say I am having the time of my life doing this!!! It is just so much better than being in a classroom being taught on how to teach but now I am actually doing it!!!

Vacation 2009!!!

So I finally got the trip to the beach I have wanted all summer!!! This “Beach Trip” consists of one day at a beach in Lewes, Delaware and an evening trip to the Ocean City Boardwalk, which I have never been too (surprising… I know!!!) Well here we go my vacation in a nut shell…

Day One

The start of this vacation was a real early one, as are most vacations. I woke up around twenty of seven and only hit the snooze button once which is a big shocker!!! After my usual morning routine I had to take my car to the mechanic, about two days ago I was backing out of my neighbors drive way and hit the curb and busted a “hose” so off I went!!! Then we were on our way to the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Maryland, I think this is about my fifth time coming to this hotel. A person would think that it would get old but it really hasn’t yet. For some odd reason the drive went by pretty quickly, I just remember it being long but it was only about two hours. When we got here, we checked into our room on the sixth floor and the room had a great view of the Chesapeake Bay! After unpacking and getting settled in my family and I went down to the pool and chilled for a while and we got some very expensive lunch, which was really not that great. After some more chilling we went to go and get some appetizers in the Regency Club, which is only available to guests on sixth floor and then we went to dinner at a restaurant called Portside and got some really good Maryland Crab Soup. As the night progressed I took a walk and got some very cool pictures, and then I called it a night!!!

Day Two

You begin to realize how nice sleeping in is when you finally get to for the first time in about four days. I have always hated sleeping in hotels, in many cases of mine I have been stuck sleeping in a rollaway bed which are not that comfortable to start off with. This past night was a perfect example of that I could not find a comfortable position in the bed, I was hot then I was cold, which gets real old fast!!! After getting to sleep around 12:30 am I was out for the night and was up at 8:30 am. I know 8:30 does not seem that late but when you have been waking up around 6:00 am and getting to bed at the same time I did last night… do the math it is a whole 2 extra hours of sleep!!! After a shower, some breakfast, and a cup of coffee me and my family were of to Cape Henlopen which is located in Lewes, Delaware which is about two hours away from the hotel. The two hour drive there was not that bad at all and when we got there I was so happy to see the sand and the ocean! This is the first time I have been to any beach besides the Outer Banks in North Carolina and it was the first time without any one my own age. Since I did not have any one to hang out with I had some great time with three people I met at the beach, Me, Myself and I!!! I did some tanning and I read my book which was actually really good. We got some lunch at the snack shack at the beach and about an hour or so later it started to down pour so that was the end of our day at the beach, but that was okay because we had a great time! Megan my sister actually made a friend for the day!!! So off we went on the road again to the hotel for some dinner and a relaxing evening!!!

Day Three

So Wednesday July 29, 2009 will be an important day in the history of Sean Patrick Kelley, it was the first time I have been to the Ocean City Boardwalk on the Eastern Shore in Maryland. I have been to Ocean City once when I was five but have not regulation of it so it does not count! I really do not understand what all the hype is about, I found it very overrated and crowded. Not only was it crowded but it is the same damn thing everywhere you walk, there must be at least 40 different T-Shirt shops and about 20 different stores for Sunglasses. The 20 different stores for Sunglasses were actually beneficial because I was on a search to find a new, sportier pair and to my luck I did find a pair thanks to a foreign exchange student working in the store. On that note are American Teenagers really that lazy that they do not want to work and they just want to sit around and do nothing so they get international students to do the work for half the pay most likely. Sadly this adventure was only shared between me and my Dad, my sister Megan was sadly feeling a little under the weather and could not make the trip. So my Mom and my sister had a long night at the hotel.

Day Four

The final day of my trip came to a quick end, my sister was sadly really sick and could not make it through the day and my family and I decided that it was best to go home early even though it was our last day there. On the way home we stopped some outlets and went shopping for a while which was fun and I got some more clothes for my internship!!!

Overall the trip was a lot of fun and I had a great time!!!

Until next time!!!

-SPK

SA at the Hippo, Hershey Park and SUMMER!!!

So to start off my summer with a big bang myself and my friend Stacie saw the musical I am just in love with Spring Awakening!!! I saw the show in New York twice, once in September and a second time on January 18th (closing day). So if you do the math this would be my third time seeing the show and people have asked to me, "Why do you see it so many times?" my response has always been, “It’s like watching my favorite movie over again several times” That always seems to shut them up pretty quickly! So I obviously know the show very well and can give a good review…

I would have to say overall I enjoyed the performances from the tour cast much better than the Broadway, but I did miss some things from the Broadway cast, mainly acting choices. O ya Matt was out and Chase was on as Georg!
Christy Altomore (Wendla) - Great voice, her acting could be more innocent but overall she was just great!
Kyle Riabko (Melchior) - His acting and voice were just amazing, there was nothing really bad about him! His replacement will have a hard time filling his shoes.
Blake Bashoff (Mortiz) - I just fell in love with his Mortiz! He was so funny, compared to Gerard Canonico, who had a rocker edge to him, which was enjoyable! I like his voice, but do not love it but it is very nice and different.
The Girls - Gabrielle Garza (Anna), Kimiko Glenn (Thea), Sarah Hunt (Martha), and Steffi D (Ilse) - They were all great!! They sounded just very nice together, Mama Reprise WOW!!!! They had a lot of energy!! Kimiko was so spunky! Gabrielle just had this innocence to her which was nice to see. Sarah did a good job as Martha, the scene before the song was good, I really enjoyed her acting there but in the song I would have liked to see a little bit more. Steffi! What can I say her voice was just the greatest! I can look beyond her acting choices and just listen to her voice!
The Boys -Andy Mientus (Hanchen), Ben Moss (Ernst), Anthony Lee Medina (Otto), Chase Davidson(Georg) - Overall they were a much stronger group than the closing Broadway cast but I do love those guys! Andy was such a creeper! I really enjoyed him; the creeper approach was very funny! Ben has a great voice and he was perfect as Ernst, his acting choices were spot on! Anthony made such a small character have some substance to him, good voice! Chase was such a good Georg! I asked him at the stage door how many times he has went on as Georg and he said this was his 7th. After hearing that I could definitely see how he was settling into the role! His Touch Me solo was a little reserved but good! My Junk was spot on! Angela and him were just so funny!
The Adults - Angela Reed and Henry Stram – I have to say I was disappointed by the both of them. Angela could have done so much more for the characters, especially the school teacher! I think the problem was that I was use to Christine; she was just so funny she was totally hamming it up towards the end of her run! As for Henry the biggest thing was the scene between him and Moritz, when he was telling his father that he had failed. If I remember correctly there was a slap somewhere in there and that was not done, Blake just got down on his knees and looked like he was praying, I am not sure if Henry was not conformable with that, or was it Blake?
Over the last couple of days of school we read the script in my Drama 3 class and we learned about Mortiz decision to commit suicide, when Don’t do Sadness/Blue Wind came around my friend Stacie said "I just don't want to see him go, his story is not finished!" This is so true!

After starting the summer off with Spring Awakening my family and I went to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania for 2 days which was so much fun!!! The first day at the park we went to the water park at Hershey and it was so nice just to go down some water slides, sit in a tube and relax in the lazy river for awhile. After doing the water park for a couple of hours we decided to go onto a couple of rides in the park, the first ride we went on was the Wild Mouse. This roller coaster has some very sharp turns and my cell phone was in my pocket and after the ride it was not there! I had lost my cell phone!!! You never want something so bad until you cannot have it, and that is exactly what happened to me. I checked the lost and found several times and it was not there so I had accepted the fact that I had lost my phone for good!!! When we got home from Pennsylvania I got a new (better) cell phone and started adding numbers to my contact list and a day later we got a call from Hershey saying they found my phone and it was in perfect shape!!! So my mom gets a new phone!!!

This summer has been good so far and is getting better because I am going to beach for a long weekend which will be great!!!

Prairie Dogs Fighting!!!

Hershey Park - Zoo America

Hope

So I am learning more and more that getting your hopes up for anything is dangerous, not only is it dangerous but it is devastating in a way. My parents have this thing they do which makes getting your hopes up dangerous. They tell us one thing change there minds and when I get mad and yell the best part of it is my parents make me feel like I am the bad guy. I just don’t understand why people think it is okay to say one thing and do the other. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary hope is defined as the following… to cherish a desire with anticipation… to desire with expectation of obtainment… to expect with confidence. I think the best definition is “to expect with confidence” when someone tell you they are getting you something or that we are going to go somewhere as a family, you are confident that it is going to happen but that confidence is not always shared. I guess the best thing to do is to hope against hope which is to hope without any basis for expecting fulfillment.

Change!!

Prom...Summer...Spring Awakening

So it has been a crazy couple of weeks! Just last week I had my Junior Prom! OMG it was so much fun! It was at the Hunt Valley Inn, I went with a great group of people and it was the night of a life time... I know that sounds lame but it really was it will be a night I will always have in the back of my head. After this amazing night I had to go to work which was not at the top of my to do list for that day. I had to get up around 8:00 to be at work at 9:30, so that meant I was working off 6 hours of sleep which may seem okay but not for ME!!!! I did not get home around 9:00 that night because I had a staff meeting in Owings Mills! So since I did not have a bum day after Prom it took me about 2 school days to simply recover!

So today is May 23rd, 2009 which means I have 19 days of school left, which is 19 days too many!! The thing that makes me mad is my teachers still care it seems like, which means they are still give us homework! I have a paper and a final project for my American Lit class, finals in World History, and Bio! I am so done!!!!

Just FYI!!! Spring Awakening will be at the Hippodrome very soon and you should check it out!!!! It is just amazing!

Spring Awakening = Amazing!!!

Okay so there is this musical Spring Awakening you probly read about in this blog... well I never really explained it! It is a 18th Century play turned into a modern musical! It is about children being seen and not heard! This musical is just amazing and you should go and see it! Guess what you can! It is coming to Baltimore in June you can get tickets by going to this website! http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/172363

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!!

Spring and Summer every other day???

So do not get me wrong I love warm weather...(I think I do) well yes I do because I really hate being cold but summer clothes just do not look that great on me, so in some sense I do like cold weather. Within the past couple of days it went from pretty cold to very hot like 93 degrees! Ya talk about a weather shock! It has been so hot and I have been outside for a couple hours each day, and you would think that you would get a small tan, but no! I am still white, don't get me wrong I do not want to orange but a little color would be nice!

June 12th can not come any sooner (the last day of school) I am so done! The way my schedule faned out 3 out of 4 of my classes are academic which sucks because I have to stay awake for almost 3 1/2 hours and learn during them, I hate it! Honestly the only thing that gets me through the day is the reward for myself which is blasting the Spring Awakening soundtrack. I have to use my reward system alot lately. Recently I helped out with Century Idol, one word head ache!!! I told myself last year I was not going to do it but I did (Jenny Gilbert). Friday I was at school from 3 - 10 and Saturday I worked from 8:30 - 4:00 went home and left for Century Idol at 4:45 and did not get home to almost 11:00 but that was okay because I got some DQ.

Well tommorw is Drama fest and I will share more about it after it happens, logical right!

-SPK

OMG thats my baby in the MICROWAVE!!!

Catlin - I am going to take the baby and hide it in the microwave!!!

Sean - Okay... (walks away!)

Thats what we talk about at GymJam!!!

Springs Awakening???

Characters
Mrs. James - A high school Drama teacher that suffers from schistophrenia
Sean - A high school theater dork... obsessed with Spring Awakening
Stacie - Same thing as Sean but not as obsessed with Spring Awakening as Sean
Paige - Theater Dork but not has much as Sean or Stacie

Setting - Cathy James Room G103 at Century High School

Mrs. James - We will be reading Springs Awakening for our muscial theater unit.
Sean - It is Spring Awakening... not Springs Awakening
Mrs. James - Same difference...
Sean and Stacie - NO!!!!!!!!
Paige - You know they have sex on stage!
Mrs. James - Oh I know Sean has told me, he has seen like 80 times.
Sean - Not 80, it will be 4 in June
Mrs. James - You know you like it!
Sean - Yes totally!! Thats why I see it... SEX!!!!!!!
Class - Laughs
End Scene!

Spring Awakening and Spring Break

I am an coffee addict but lately my coffee has been Spring Awakening and I need to see the show again now!!!!
Sadly that is not possible until June... that is just about 2 months away plus or minus a few days! That is way to long!!!
Did I metion that it was Spring Break!! My defination of Spring Break is as follows sleeping in... watching TV... hanging out with a few keyword few... hanging out with family for Easter... and a little bit emphasis on little of homework!!
Hope you all have a great Spring Break!!!!

My day off... Haha JK

So today Wednesday, March 18th was a half day at my school. So that means that classes are short and we do nothing in class. So that means I am going to stay home! ALONE!! Nope my sister is sick and staying home with me! I was going to run some errands and hang out around the house. Nope nothing like that!!!!

Sorry...Going a little crazy!

So it has been a couple weeks since I posted a blog. Sorry! I have been it the mist of my school's musical Oliver! I have done the musical each year since I was a freshman, last year I was props manager and it was stressful but fun, this year OMG, I got the job of Asst. Stage Manger and I have the director down my thorat! Everything that goes wrong with the backstage crew it comes to me. I have to stop complaing because this is what I wanted since freshman year, so I guess I have to stop and suck it up!!!

Snow!!!

So March 2nd, 2009 is a SNOW DAY!!!! Ya a snow day in March I never would have expetced that to happen. I love snow days because I always feel like I need a day off whenever we get one!

I LOVE <3 unruly children!!!!

So today I was at crew and I was just sitting with my friends talking about god knows what... My Mom called me and asked me to come and try to get my sister to go to music rehearsal, she of course had other plans and did not want to go (she became very unruly and annoying!) It took me about ten minutes to get her to the room and she would not even go in to the room once we got there and she ran away crying and then they left for home! I have a great sister!

I Love Field Trips!!!

Today I went on a field trip to the Maryland State Captial. Overall a good way to spend a day from school. It started off as a semi long bus ride which was okay but boring! When we got to the State House we had to stand outside and wait for the other bus to show up, it was raining - enough said. We sat in on the House of Delegates which was intresting. I was so surprised because everything was so informal! It was like they were back in high school and they did not have a care in the world! After that we went on a tour of the State House which was real boring! After that we went to lunch and got ICE CREAM!!!!!

-SPK

Oh Pretty Days!

Spring Awakening Music!

So I have the soundtrack to Spring Awakenining and listen to it all the time. I read in the Spring Awakening book In The Flesh that the songs do not push the plot but are thoughts of the charcter singing it. I think that is such a fresh approach to a musical because times have changed and people are tired of the same thing over again (the story and plot have changed but the music has not!). I am the Asst. Stage Manager for my schools production of Oliver! and the thing bothers me the most about the show (besides how lame it is) is the music it does nothing for the plot who the hell cares that guys name is Bill Sykes and we are going to run and hide when we see him... no no no!!! O well rant done!
-SPK

P.S.

Check these videos out and see what I mean!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n4owGV5avE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzBrwdY-GA

Washington DC

So today I went to DC it was pretty fun! I got to spend some time with my family outside my house which was nice! Overall it was pretty good adventure, the best part of the big adventure was how freaked out my younger sister was of the city! It was not just DC but New York and Baltimore. Any ways it was nice way to spend a Saturday!

-SPK

RENT Filmed LIVE on Broadway

I am so excited to see this movie for the first time. I have to say this movie is going to make or break RENT for me. I have of course seen the movie and loved it (it stared a small obsession). I saw the stage production in Baltimore last year and hated it! I think which made me hate it was the fact that the actors were so bad, they just went through the motions. Going through the motions is so lame, when someone pays $60.00 a ticket they expect it to be good! The thing about the stage production that bothered me the most was that the plot was so hard to follow and did not really flow. After seeing the show live it slowed down the opsession but that does not mean I do not want to see the final show of RENT, so I am off to get my copy!!!!! Bye!!!!

-SPK

Ahhh! Gym Jam

Okay so I have been working at this place for three years and have been doing the same thing... Birthday Parties! The new/old Asst. Birthday Party Coor. sits on her ass the whole time and does nothing and gets paid $9.50 an hour for it! So hopefully she will get fired from it and I will get it!!!! Which will be great!!!!!
-SPK

My Phone is going CRAZY!!!

Okay so I went to go and check a text message on my phone at school, when I looked at the phone it was going crazy the screen was unreadable! The best part of it is that I did not drop it or anything!!

-SPK

Spring Awakening In The Flesh

So I got my copy In The Flesh I got so happy when it came in!!! I started to read the book and I saw a scene from the show and was like oh that's cooooool, never really had any thoughts about it. Until... I relized that it was the whole show!!!! I am so happy and it made my weekend, I will just have to over look that homework thing our teachers make us do!!!!

-SPK