Gutten First week ....

ok listen i have been neglecting all my avid (spelling/ real word?..english is hard when you are so used to speaking German #tri-lingual) readers so I am back after a week to share the times and trials of a actor in Germany #lifeishard/#love#'s. So in the words of my one week old friend Chris who plays one of our "Tonys" -"I can't remember a week where I have been perpetually smiling and in a constant state of awe and appreciation like this." Nailed it. Startin off real sappy folks but its THAT good yall. This week we had full time rehearsals starting at 9:30 am with Ballet (which i have been asked to lead but humbly turned down ..for all of you that are not aware of my ballet skills ...they don't exist) Then we go straight into learning choreography for all of the dance numbers. Mind you when i say "we" learn the choreography I mean "the dancers" learn the choreography, I however am great at sitting and stretching for 8 hours. But in all seriousness I have NEVER been in the presence of this many INSANE DANCERS (ps im obsessed with dancers) that have no bones or joints. To see the original choreography on these bodies makes me die. And for real for a sec, if I could gift something to you I would invite all of you to be a fly on the wall in the rehearsal room so you would be inspired to be a part of something bigger than yourself: a message of hope. The message that the only thing that is stronger than hate is LOVE. LOVE YALL! And we as a cast are experiencing those shades of love a little at a time. It just affirms the fact that this story is still alive and needs to be told and the mission of the actor is to use your ugly so that the world can see its beauty. Everyone in that room is ready to open themselves in the hopes of the audience seeing hope. Werk. Das vatz upp. Ok now someother encounters of the week: 1.) So I have this innate feeling that I am fluent in German and when I go to speak to "natives" I fully make up words. And am passionate about it. In example when getting a cheese croissant after not getting into the gym I point to one croissant and say " unt furchustedam" let it be known that none of that is German for "one croissant". So the lady behind the counter proceeds to put her hands on her hips and says in perfect English " Just one? Will that be all?" ...I don't understand why everyone in Germany hates Americans..... 2.) went to see the German version of Central park ..its wayyyy better and cleaner and you can drink beer and wave at cops at the same time. Also went to see the east side gallery.epic. Reichstag, scary. Jewish Memorial overwhelming. This is the thing, I would see people taking like high school musical jumping pictures by all these and of course I wanted to jump in but I pretty much felt like I wasn't allowed to smile. Weird and somber. (just learned the word somber today) 3.) I don't know how to upload pictures yet so get over it. I promise to update this more because i hate writing essays each week. Hope you have a Gutten Day!

First day in Europe y'all...

Important things that have happened since yesterday. 1. Met the cast...baller. Everyone has generously been so kind and intentional about getting to know one another and I just know we are destined for greatness. 2.The flight to Berlin provides wine...great. 2.5 You can say "gutte" before anything and it is impressive..i.e. "gutte morning" 3.roomates with the famous Rhett Guter. I am not a good roomate nor will I try and be for the sake of our friendship. People say that once you are roomates you will no longer be friends. Rhett's friendship is the only one I am willing to risk it on ya feel me? (for everyone that doesn't know Rhett and I are good friends and we did WSS together 2 years ago...this is called sarcasm...kinda...) 4. Cast dinner= joey's (director)welcome which got me pumped for rehearsals. Also, note for future nikko do not when introducing yourself to the entire company proceed to say your name, role, and then make eye contact with "tony" and make bro fake shooting gestures...especially when you are "chino"...woof (for all of you that don't understand please educate yourselves) 5. We have tomorrow off to explore Berlin! Okkkkkkrrrrrrrrrr P.S. anyone know anything fun to do in BERLIN???? Hit me .

New to this...

>Ok so this is my test run of a post ...didit work? .....it worked ! We are on! Hawt