I'm ba-aaaaack!

I'm home! I apologize profusely for being part of the reason that this blog.... kind of died. But now I'm bringing it back to life! Huzzah!

Okay so I just spent the last two weeks in the UK. AHHHHH it was basically the most amazing thing in the world and I'm going to spend this whole post talking about it.

So Edinburgh is this city in Scotland and every year for the month of August, there's this ginormous theatre festival that takes over the city. It's the biggest arts festival in the world, and the population of the city goes from like 500,000 to 4 million or something ridiculous like that. It's crazy.

And so there is this organization called the American High School Theatre Festival, and they choose around 50 high school theatre groups and send them to the Fringe. We perform there and get to see a bunch of shows and it's glorious.

I spent two days in London (got a tour of the Globe Theatre and did a workshop there, went to Westminster Abbey and Trafalgar Square) and then we took a train up to Edinburgh. It was basically the Hogwarts Express, no lie, because it was all of the American high school kids in the train together.

Theeeeeen we spent nine days in Edinburgh for the festival! We performed our show four times and I saw a bunch of other high schools' shows and I saw a bunch of professional shows and I saw some comedians and I saw lots of street performers! Plus we did touristy things like climb Arthur's Seat, which is this dormant volcano, at four in the morning to watch the sun rise, and we went to some castles and took lots of pictures and it was ah-mazing. I'm going to stop gushing now.

But seriously, it was the best experience of my life. I wish I could still be there. It was great to meet so many new people in such an exciting place and get to be a part of something that big and important. I want to go back every year, I swear. Even if you're not a theatre person usually, I think you'd love it. Edinburgh is such a cool city, everything is beautiful and old.

Anyway.
Lots of exciting things going on in my life.
On the downside, I start school on Friday.
So how are you all doing?