Hoppy Easter!

Hoppy (yes, Hoppy not Happy) Easter everyone! So today I was kind of anti-social and I brought my Kindle to my family’s Easter party at my grandparents’ house. As soon as I was done with my ham, egg bake (well, I gave it to my mom, I’m not much of an egg bake fan), fruit, cinnamon roll, biscuit and gravy, and banana bread, I headed off to the spare bedroom that had all of our coats and pulled out my Kindle. My Kindle, an e-reader, holds all of my nonfiction books that I am reading or have read. I started my Julie Andrews book “Home: A Memoir of My Early Years” awhile back, but now I’m in the section that talks about the performances she did as a teenager. I was really sympathetic for Julie because she talked about how she had to care for her family. Her mother and stepfather were alcoholics, so she had to watch out for them and take care of her brothers. Also, she was the main source of income since she was making good money by performing in different shows. She must have felt like the weight of the world was on her shoulders. No teenager should ever have to go through that. Julie said that the need for money to pay for her mother’s dream house pushed her to keep being involved in different productions. That must have actually been a good thing, in a way, because she must have improved in her singing and acting by doing so many musicals. Then, people probably started to figure out who Julie Andrews was, saw how good she was, and said, “I need that girl in my show!” I hope you had an awesome Easter and, by the way, “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” That is a quote from Gustav Mahler, in case you were wondering.

~Aspiring Actress~