Welcome to Theatre – Belhaven Stlye ::: aka ::: never has a busy schedule felt so right

From time to time we hope to have students write a little piece for the blog so Ginny is our first victim…..I mean guest student blogger. Coming from Germany, and encountering so many new things by being back in the USA and now at college + a major in our theatre dept. we thought she might like to share a few thoughts on it all 🙂

Enjoy Ginny’s post —

I stepped onto campus at Belhaven for the first time in August. I had never been to Mississippi before and was re-entering the United States as a resident for the first time in sixteen years. The light switches look weird here and so do the outlets. Don’t get me started on the unsettling fact that everyone around me is speaking English. Hurray for awkward MKs!

I made the decision to attend Belhaven and study theater by faith. With little prior experience under my belt, I have had the opportunity to throw myself into a world that feels like home. A few days after arriving I and my peers were auditioning for two separate productions. Pretty soon I was shown to a room stuffed with swords, books, fake flowers, telephones etc, and instructed to make Norwegian money and two wedding rings…i.e. props duty!

In our weekly departmental meeting I have played human fusbal and been a part of a five minute retelling of a Shakespeare play. I may only be a freshman in my first semester, but here at the Belhaven Theater department I have already built props and sets, learned stage combat, ushered for a show, and I am now cast in a one-act play that am so incredibly excited about! Never has a busy schedule felt so right to me.

By Ginny Holladay