This whole week has been pretty uneventful, just work work work. Tuesday I had my Sex and Gender class where I turned in a 10 page paper, and took a quiz. Recitation was cancelled, so that made my day because I really didn't feel like sitting through another class. Then, I had work in Brooklyn from 3:45-5:45. It was a good day at work with the kids, we all had a great time. It is so nice to be able to get away from the city and hang out with such a fun crowd at the Trapeze Academy. The first class, with the 5-7 year olds, was a blast. The kids were getting their tricks down, having fun playing around on the new mats, and goofing around with me. I love working with those kids and it makes me miss working at the JCC in San Francisco as a camp counselor. The second class is 8 year olds and up. They were doing pretty well and since they now know how to tie themselves in and when to climb up the ladder I didn't need to do much. All I did was teach them how to work their core strength in order to get into their tricks when they're in the air. After trapeze, class ended and I took the subway back to the city. I spent the rest of the night working on an essay for my Drama in Performance class.
Wednesday I had my art history class from 9:30-10:45 and then I stayed in the art history department to finish writing my essay for Drama in Performance. It was one of my favorite essay prompts because we were writing about the circus show we saw a few weeks ago. We had to write about what act we would contribute to the circus show if we were traveling around with them. What fears would we have to face to complete our act and what might we have to give up to join this circus? I, of course, wrote about flying trapeze so it was a fun paper to write. After I printed out the paper, I went back to my apartment, changed into my theater-going clothes and went to my Drama in Performance class. We had to leave straight from class to go to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Cate Blanchett. We grabbed some pizza before hopping on the subway and the show was FANTASTIC. I didn't know what to expect, and even though we were sitting in the theater from 7:30-11pm, time flew by. Cate Blanchett was unbelievable and I'm so glad that was the last show we saw. It was the perfect play to end on.
Thursday I had Sex and Gender from 11-12:15 and then spent some time in Starbucks with my friends, Emily and Victoria. I love our Thursday after-class tradition of grabbing drinks and sitting and talking for an hour. It takes my mind off the stress of my work here at NYU. After Starbucks I headed back to my apartment to memorize lines for my Drama group's film shoot for our project. We met up at 6:30 and spent a couple of hours filming scenes for our final project. I think it turned out beautifully and we're all excited to get our project over with on Wednesday. (We are going to be the first ones to perform in class.)
Friday I woke up early to have a meeting with my professor for my art history class. I was having some trouble finding paintings I wanted to write about for my final paper, a 10-page catalogue of my own medieval Italian art exhibition. It's going to be a very interesting paper to write because 5 of the paintings are displayed in museums here in NY. I'll probably take a trip to those museums in the coming week to see the paintings I've chosen. After the meeting, I went back to my apartment, dropped off my laptop and walked back to the same building for my Architecture Field Study class. We walked around "Corporate Heaven," Park Avenue, and looked at some amazing architecture. I'd have to say this tour was on the top of my list. We saw the Citicorp Building, St. Peter's Church, Seagram Building, Villard Houses, and many others. The tour was focused on architecture being used at advertisement, which fascinated me, especially with the Seagram Building. I, of course, loved the Seagram Building because it was designed by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. After spending a lot of time in my architecture studio last year working on a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion project, I have learned a lot about Mies. The Seagram Building has whiskey-brown tinted glass windows, reminiscent of the product Seagram sells. It almost looks like one big bottle of Seagram Whiskey.
Citicorp Building (designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates)
Seagram Building= a bottle of Seagram Whiskey (SO COOL!)
Mosette Broderick's tour group in front of the NY Racquet & Tennis Club (designed by McKim, Mead, and White)
After the architecture tour, I headed to MOMA to see the Tim Burton exhibit. My friend Barrett, from my class, came along with me because he said he hasn't visited MOMA since he's been a student at NYU. When we got there, we realized it was Free Friday Night at the Museum. The line wrapped around the block but moved very quickly, so we got into the museum around 4pm. We saw Monet's Water Lilies and went to some other great exhibits before heading to the Tim Burton exhibit. Somehow we walked right into the exhibit without showing our tickets or waiting in any line. The show was UNBELIEVABLE. One of the best exhibits I have ever seen in MOMA. He is so talented and it inspired me to start sketching more. (I haven't started yet...but hopefully in Scotland I will pull out my sketchbook and draw some castles. haha.) After the exhibit, Barrett had to go but I continued to walk around the museum. I checked out the Jackson Pollock room and Starry Night, and then my roommate, Liz, called me and I met up with her downstairs. (She was in a class touring around the museum, so we were planning on meeting up after she was finished.) It was 5:30 and we decided to hop on the subway and go to Spice, the restaurant, in Union Square. It was nice to not eat in our apartment.
Barrett took a picture of me in front of Radio City Music Hall...I'm such a tourist (still)!
After dinner, we walked back to the apartment, got ready for Emma's show and went to Tisch to see the performance. Emma has been working so hard this semester preparing for this show that she wrote, directed, and is performing in, and it finally happened this week/weekend. Opening night was Wednesday and tonight is the last show. She did a wonderful job and I'm so happy for her. She is graduating in a few weeks, as well, so she has a lot to be proud of! I'm going to miss Emma and Liz SO much, I really don't know what I would have done without them in this city. It's going to be hard to say goodbye, but I know I will see them again in NY or San Francisco, or maybe Europe in the summer after I'm done studying in Glasgow.
After the show, I went over to Nicole's dorm and we watched Vicky Christina Barcelona, talked, and relaxed. It's nice having some relaxing nights here in between work and writing all of these essays. Today, I have just been working in my apartment. Emma had a matinee today at 1pm and tonight I'm going to her 8pm show.
Love you and miss you all! (I'll be home so soon.)
Love Always,
Jess
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