5 years ago today, June 25

June 25, 2004 saw:

{Warning: the first image is a tad graphic. Scroll quickly past it to see the rest, if your tummy doesn't appreciate dislocated digits.}

"Um, Kevin? I think I broke my toe..."-Margaret, after running into a wall during an exercise.

One of the earliest hints that this was going to be an unceasingly supportive group: giving love for the broken toe. (After the hospital visit, we learned that it was only dislocated, not broken, thankfully.) L-R: back: Jake, Sam. front: Jacob, Margaret, Liz, Jess, and someone's arm...I don't remember whose, I want to say Eliza, but it could be any number of good folks. Damn loss of labels!

Reichts museum (I think? ack! I'm already forgetting!)

What is that which Derrick is so gleefully posing with? Why, an outdoor urinal, of course.

art is everywhere in Amsterdam. It rises from the ground, it bursts forth from the buildings.

Carla, Derrick, groceries, a walk home.

But Derrick does take the time to stop and smell the roses.

This in class assignment familiar to anyone?:

Characters: A & B

A: accuses

B: questions

A: mocks

B: challenges

A: dismisses, then demands

B: defies

A: threatens

B: confesses

A: berates

B: apologizes

A: dismisses

B: begs

A: condemns

B is writing a letter attempting to persuade someone to give them a break. A enters. The scene happens. A exits.

A lesson in basic and effective scene structure. Produced an amazingly wide range of results, it was really awesome.

And I'll leave you today with a quote from Liz:

"If there is anything to rival fine art, it's a pancake."

5 years ago today, June 24

June 24, 2004 saw:

our usual commute to and from the theater school:

And we attended some performances that were presented as part of an international theater festival. Most of them were awesome...there was the one with the guys who tied themselves together with string and then used cello bows to make and instrument out of it, (about conjoined brothers...stunningly beautiful.) And it may not have been this day, but there was one about prison and escape, and they beautifully mixed vulnerability with toughness, nudity used very effectively, and an awesome sequence where they actually tunneled under the mylar on the stage floor. Awesome stuff. And then...there was this woman:

The most self-important, pretentious without cause, condescending without redemption, irresponsible towards the audience, ultimately just bad excuse for performance art I have ever seen. These photos are the result of me deciding to turn her own tactic back on her, and effective or not, it was my own sweet revenge.

beautiful sky out the windows in Jacob's room (I think it was? damned label loss, I used to have the specifics of each one recorded...sigh...I'll never stop complaining about that.)

That night a bunch of us were hanging out in Jacob's room, and he had his ipod on, which prompted an imaginary music video shoot, Nicole here using her invisible camera to film jacob's rockin' antics.

Laryssa, Nicole L, and Nicole S hanging out in Jacob's room.

Jacob and Laryssa

Tracy and Nicole L

And, as a special treat, here is what happened once Nicole S discovered that I could take video on my still cam:

And I will leave you with this gem: a clip of Nicole and Jacob making up a musical on the spot, just for fun:

5 years ago today, June 23

June 23, 2004 saw:

lots of 'artsy' shots of my dinner, room, and various objects in it. I'll spare you most of them, and just include a couple shots of how nicely organized I was back then. (Which, sadly, are the least artistically inclined shots from the batch.)

[As a sidenote, I must have gotten my stuff by this point...I spent the first 4 days in the same clothes because my suitcase didn't make the flight, and it was of course the ONE TIME I didn't pack a spare set in my carry-on. figures. And then evidently the guy bringing it to me the next day was wandering around the apartment building looking for "Kaylien Jones" who of course no one knew, so he took it back to the airport. In the end I was riding down the street and saw someone walking towards our building with my suitcase. I almost literally ran into it with my bike, and was pissed for a second, and then had a moment of "hey, that's mine!" I was elated to be reunited with my stuff. Which was mostly clothes.]

The hallway, if you stepped out of our room and looked to the right

and to the left.

Hallway happenings.

Hm, jen's hiding, we can't see any clothes on derrick...what exactly is nicole looking at??

One of the things I miss most about Amsterdam: these impromptu times spent with awesome people, even if it was just a conversation in the hallway.

June 23, 2009 saw:

Me, stuck the couch with a bottle of Lortab. Which I mostly refused to use.

5 years ago today, June 22

June 22, 2004 saw:

Death over Carla's shoulder!

I got my trusty bike, Spot!! I miss spot.

another sunset...

Carla and Derrick...cuuuuute.

what's odd about this picture?

maybe the absence of flash will help:

No, not the ice cream in Derrick's mouth (although: Magums! YUM!) ...that bike is definitely chained to the wrong side of the fence...

June 22, 2009 saw:

no pictures, but I had my wisdom teeth removed this morning. FUN. bye bye teeth, hello Lortab.

more to come!

5 years ago today, June 21

June 21, 2004 saw:

a bunch of theater kids, as yet unsure, hanging out in their new home. (oh yes, did I mention my suitcase didn't make it? I still didn't have my stuff.) Me, Jess, Sam, and Jamie K

Jess, Sam, and Jamie K

5 years ago today, June 20

I've had a bit of a hiatus in terms of 5 years ago posts, since work got a bit crazy, and anyway I had fewer pics to share once I got home from China...Mostly shots of mundane things around the house that I wanted to have with me while I was away, since my time at home was so brief, as you'll see...on June 20, 2004, I got on yet another overseas flight, and began my time in Amsterdam!

Liz, in a toy store we wandered into as we waited for the theater school doors to be unlocked that cold, dreary morning when we all arrived, discombobulated, excited and nervous. (We each arrived separately. And arrived to find the doors locked. Eep!)

Our home(s!) Liz's room on the left, mine on the right. Our lovely little home on the princengracht!

Jacob's room and Daren, surprised to see my camera, emerging from his own. (They were directly across the hall from liz and I.)

the shower room Liz & I shared

...and the toilet room we also shared.

my private little apartment. I loved that itty bitty place. It was just right to call home.

The view out my window
out my window

Sunset out the window (just wait, the best one is to come in a few days)
at an angle, also looking out the window. Hello Amsterdam, you wonderful love!

EDIT: I forgot! I was going to share snippits from my little moleskine, too...of which a major part is the quotes I would write down. A few from this day:

"I have the attention span of a night light, what's happening?"- Liz

"I'm choking on my materialism, help!"-Jamie A, literally getting choked by the strap of his bag that was stuck in the doorway.

"Yesterday? Yesterday was a day and a half ago."-Sam. Ah, jetlag!

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Hey! It's our 3rd anniversary! Happy anniversary, Kate, I love you.


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