Newly Found Inspiration

 I actually have to give most of the credit for admiring this lovely, young actress, to Polka Dot; who recently did a post on this star.

Hailee Steinfeld is a new inspiration of mine. She's cute, she's fourteen, she's modest, she's mature, and she won an Oscar award for being the best supporting actress in the movie, True Grit.

After reading Polka Dot's post on her, I decided to simply look her up. After finding a few photos of her, I wanted to find out how she got her start in the acting industry, how she got her role in True Grit and basic information about she, herself.
And wow - I truly do admire her after seeing her on David Letterman and finding out a bit more about her. From what Hailee has explained about how she got her start, it just shows that with quite a bit of studying, practice and hard work, that you can, in fact, pursue your dreams.



This girl went from taking a few acting classes, studying, and being an extra on film sets....

...to becoming an Oscar award winning star!

I am the type of girl that wants to be like her. I want to have the grand privilege of walking down red carpet, I want to be in movies, I want to sip coffee with Hailee Steinfeld, I aspire to be a famous actress.

I know that famous people are overrated most of the time, and I know you are probably thinking, "Wow, you will never be famous. Good luck with that..." I even put myself down with that kind of thinking...

...But then I put myself in people like Hailee's shoes. I wonder how she got where she got. Everybody has to start somewhere, right? So what if you don't get a lead part in a play, so what if people blow you off when you explain your aspirations of being famous, so what if people tell you you'll never make it.

Celebrities, like Miss Hailee for example, I am sure had told people their aspirations of being famous...and people most likely blew them off and told them they couldn't do it.

I know this was the case with many stars, Lady Gaga being one of them. But look where they are. It takes hard, dedicated, aspiring work to get to where these people are.

Starting this Summer, I am going to try and build up a resume. I have talked to my mom, and I want to start by being an extra in a TV show and/or movie. We will see where God leads me from there. I know, for a fact though, that He is leading me into the acting industry; and I truly think that he used Polka Dot and Hailee Steinfeld to persuade me even more into doing this. Whether I will end up being famous or not...well, we will see about that.

If I do end up in the acting industry though, I desire to give God full credit for where I would be.

I desire for Him to lead me through this...step by step.

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

Guess WHAT?!

So my mom and I have been talking about me taking acting lessons. I'm very interested in acting, and would like to get a good feel of what it's like. Things like musical theatre have helped me get a fairly good feel of what it's like. So far, I have done two plays for musical theatre. I did The Wizard of Oz in 2008,  Cinderella in 2009, and I will be trying out for The Music Man in August.

Back on track though...

My mom's close friend has been helping us search for acting lessons or something that could help me in acting. She told us a few days ago that she found something called, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. She emailed my mom the website so she could take a look at it. There is something on that website where for two weeks, you are trained in things like, stage combat, voice and text work, clowning, mask, music and dance. Then, after the training, there is a one night thing where you put on a 30 minute show.

When Mom looked at the application for this, there was only one problemo...........The price was $200. So just  a *little* out of our price range....


Mom really wanted me to be able to do this, because seriously, the trainers are professional and I would learn A LOT.

So yesterday, night (or either this morning) mom saw that her friend (the one who gave us the website and everything) had sent her another email, titled the same thing as the other email. Mom thought she accidentally sent the email again, but guess what?

She said for us not to worry about paying for this training; she and her husband would take care of it.

Oh. My. Gosh. I was SO EXCITED and SO THANKFUL! I mean, I was so not excepting that! It really made my day and I'm looking forward to the training in July!

♥ Happy Blogging ♥

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Also, I was awarded by my sweet friend, Bleah @ With Love & Kisses.

I got the Creative Writer's Award.

The rule for getting this award, is you have to tell the person who gave you the award, how you found them on blogger and if you've ever written a song, music, a story, or poem.

Actually, I didn't find Bleah, she found me! I am so glad that we became bloggy friends though. She is so

awesome and so sweet! I would recommend her blog for ANYONE! In a fowl mood? Go visit her blog and you're bound to smile!

I have written a several stories. I mean, not the type that's like published into a book or anything, but just on my own, and stories for school.

I give this award to:

Veronnica @ The Adventures of Miss V

and

Mimi Dorn @ He & Me + 3