Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Hello from the other side of the rainbow! I realize this “third quarter” vlog is coming at you about halfway through school’s fourth quarter, but it’s still within the first quarter of the year! #winning  And we only just wrapped the Wizard of Oz  this weekend, so I’m doing pretty good on this timing thing. 😉

In just five days, volume 54 of the Faith Academy Tiwalan yearbook is due at the printer. The fact that it’s in a good enough place that I’ve been able to pause work on it long enough to bring you this vlog is quite a miracle. During the middle of second quarter, our school server crashed and we ended up losing 50 pages of the yearbook. It was crazy at first but ended up being a blessing in disguise! Along with the students working hard, the Lord graciously provided my friend Tiffany to help recover the work. She helped me do some extra things that kept everything from piling up at March break. I was able to relax on March break and even take an overnight with my FA employee friends to Corregidor (which should definitely get a vlog at some point in the near future! XD ). Did I mention she never stopped helping?! This weekend we’ll do the proofreading and indexing of the final 24 pages and then it’s off to see the Printer!  (The Wizard of Oz is not quite out of any of our heads yet.)

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Bohol Earthquake Relief

The 2013 Bohol earthquake occurred on October 15, 2013, at 8:12 a.m. (PST) in Bohol, an island province located in Central Visayas, Philippines. The magnitude of the earthquake at the epicenter was recorded at Mw 7.2, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) SW of Sagbayan town, at a depth of 12 kilometres (7.5 mi). It affected the whole Central Visayas region, particularly Bohol and Cebu. The quake was felt in the whole Visayas area and as far as Masbate island in the north and Cotabato provinces in southern Mindanao. According to official reports by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), 222 were reported dead, 8 were missing, and 976 people were injured.

The Groom Has Cold Feet (and my life as a director)

When I got back to Faith last August I had just had a whirlwind of a summer with no real time for reading plays. So, I began my frantic search for a script that would meet my ultimate goal of “display the talents of this particular group of kids.” Finding scripts is a daunting task. For me as a director it is absolutely the WORST part of the process of producing a play. We aren’t auditioning the world here only our world and that does limit what’s available to us. Sometimes content limits script use particularly when copyrights do not allow for editing. Sometimes the set or costumes or music limits us because what is needed is too elaborate for what we can accomplish. Sometimes we don’t have the right number of males vs females. And sometimes, frustratingly, we are unable to obtain the rights to produce a show because we are outside of America. I find this to be the silliest of all reasons. So sometimes you settle for something you aren’t totally thrilled with but figure you can make work and the process of making it something everyone involved will be thrilled with begins.

Catching Up

A busy life, outdated website software, and getting hacked are all major contrubuting factors to my lack of updates. We’ll just leave it at that. Thanks to one of my besties, Ben Daron, my site is back up and running. I hope to continue getting it up-to-date, but you know me (or maybe you don’t), no promises! 😉

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Becca Stephens: Senior 2012

It’s been a crazy whirlwind of a summer and there are so many things I could talk about but right now this post is a shout out to my girl Becca Stephens!  I love this girl and am so blessed to have had the opportunity to hang out and grab some photographs with her this summer. Watch out, hot stuff ahead! 🙂

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