Thoughts

Now that I am home for the summer I am beginning to sort through things in my life. I am getting ready to go to Meadowood which is a Speech and Hearing camp that I work at all of July. That is something that I am really looking forward to this year. I always loved camp as a child and for me this is a way to still "go to camp" and get payed for it. It is a fantastic opportunity and will really help me on my Peace Corps application.

Unfortunately, it looks like I will be changing my plans on my study abroad program. Because of my recent upswing in Theater positions I believe that taking a complete year off my Junior year would be foolish. I am being blessed with an incredible amount of opportunities right now. Turning them down would be illogical being as that I have worked hard to gain them. So because of this I have come up with a solution.

1) In order to stay on top of theater classes I will not be taking a foreign language...(yet). I will be studying in a country that will be teaching me another language and have a program for beginners in that language or be an English speaking country.

2) My program with have to have a theater curriculum available for me so that I can continue to receive my theater scholarship money and training.

3) I will only be taking a semester abroad rather than a year. The program must have a semester option, Fall preferred, that is affordable to me. This means below $9,000.

These options currently lead me to the following countries: Greece, Australia and New Zealand among a few other depending on the program. Greece would be wonderful. I would be all for that. That is the brith place of theatre. Australia and New Zealand are not bad either.

Still...all of this seems so much less glamoures than living in Europe for a year and tuoring. I really should not stress it but I feel as though college is a place to learn about making choices. There are good ones and there are ever better ones. Being a little bit picky will probably pay off. In my reseach however I did find an ultaimite dream. The Moscow Art Theatre has a semester program for acting students. It costs $18,900 not including food or visa. Oh it would be so amazing. That right there is my dream. Click hear for the link.

I will keep you updated as plans evolve.

Happy Wandering,
CCosner