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Show 06... Life Monday • Augujst 25, 2008 THEATER from • C/ *5 for attention. "I stood yelling, *Come see Americans make fools of themselves as they attempt Russian comedy - - in Scotland!1" said Scott Stringham, a theater education major. "People would be like, 'What? Nah,' then turn and get a flyer from me." The students also saw The Two Widows, a comedic opera, before flying back home to the States. Each year, the Study Abroad program sends selfpaying students from a variety of departments all over the world. The UVU theater department is one of the most prestigious in the valley, and the students who visited Great Britain felt it was an educational and enjoyable experience worth every penny. FOR MORE INFORMATION on UVU's theater program, see Erin Glover In LA 220. For more on Study Abroad, visit WB 100. After being in London they traveled to Stratford-UponAvon, stopping by Oxford on the way, then stopped by Warwick Castle on the way back to London, where they staved for a few days before going to Edinburgh. *Ten of the fifteen students visited Paris, France. UNITED KINGDOM London (2 weeks) - 1 *Paris(4days) - 2 Oxford, (A visit) - 3 Stratford-Upon-Avon (A night and a morning) - 4 , Warwick Castle (A visit) - 5 Edinburgh (3 days) • 6 Courtesy of Alia Stringham The cast for Flies In The Snuffbox in Edinburgh (loft to right, back to front): Anna Mortimer, Kevin O'Keefe, Annie Mangum, Scott M. Srringham, Jana Grass, Jacob Theo Squire, Jaclyn Hales, Kelsey Howell, Alex Ungermaa, Emily Dabczynsld, Joseph Spear. FRONTLINE makes the days seem to go by easier, if not faster. One of the most anticipated dates during a deployment is the day we get to come home temporarily on environmental morale leave. We silently plead for the days leading up to our leave date to fly by. When we finally are fronr C1 home on leave, time quickly begins to work against us. Days that once dragged now pass by at dreamlike, dizzying rate. There never seems to be enough time during the short break to do all the things dreamed and planned - never enough time to completely enjoy a simple moment alone with a loved one, or a catch with a son, or security down to the depara teatime with a daughter, or ture gate. While boarding a chat with an ailing parent the plane, we can't help but or grandparent. Always in think that it seems like only the back of our mind is the yesterday that leave began. fact that nothing about leave I wonder if the tendency is permanent. of time to alternate between Almost as soon as leave dragging on and flying by begins it is over, and the mo- is less an issue of time than ment arrives for yet another an issue of perception. It is long drive to the airport, an- not the actual duration of other emotional blitzkrieg as minutes and hours and days goodbyes are expressed, and that changes, but our percepanother long walk through tion of time, dictated by our HOW TO from* C1 new grab an iphone today and •ave 1 0 % off your monthly service bill with at&t. is mentioned in this week's article "A Nonrenewable Resource," keeping track of the passage of time can make any stressful experience seem like it will, in fact, have an end. T h i n k of yourself as lucky. Unless you're going into teaching, these will be some of the last summers you have. After graduation, your work schedule most likely won't blink an eye when May turns to June. Be glad you still had these last three months to yourself. Overcompensate. iPhone 3G mobile broadband in your "™". hand :•" If you are reading this paper hot off the presses, you still have two days of summer. In these next 48 hours, stock up on things to regret later. Stay up late, get into trouble, or spend hours just eating or talking. Act out while you still can. , P l a n ways to make your soon-to-be routine more bearable. Add "in bed" to the end of every sentence a boring professor utters. Make grades a competition with your peers (but only if you're favored to win). If you prepare for these things now, they will be easier to incorporate into the grind. Better yourself. more Information, vfsft UVU AT&T f Wireless site: |Or vteft our retain F.ocaeon: Mall - 575 University # 105796 i I know it's a pain, but if all else fails, you can use this semester to make yourself more like who you want to be. A motivation like this can make the next few months go by more quickly. And you might actually get better grades. current state of mind. Days when we feel disconnected or unhappy or alone or afraid seem endless, and days when we feel content and happy and fearless seem to be over in a blink. The time we have, whether good or bad, happy or sad, satisfying or dissatisfying, is so utterly valuable because it's not a renewable resource. Time cannot be recycled like a crushed soda MADSEN can. We will never be reimbursed for even a second of lost time. The only thing left to do is attempt to live contentedly with both good days and bad ones, with long days and those that fly by like a dream, because the day will come when our very lives will seem to have passed by in a dream, only yesterday. Still, I can't help but look forward to coming home on leave. from*C1 want it to be the Capitol group — the BMG music group — because then I can ... live in London.... Signing with Capitol and the BMG group will allow that." Madsen intends to use her degree at UVU to help get her into Oxford, where she intends to pursue a bachelor's in international relations. When anyone mentions UVU around Madsen, she gushes with praise. "I love UVU with all my heart. Be proud to go there because it's an amazing ... place." In our first interview, she disclosed that upon coming home and seeing the new sign saying "Utah Valley University" on the West side of the McKay, she was moved to tears. Madsen credits much of her success to our university. "I had the hardest professors on the planet that stretched me and made me grow and made me work so hard, to the point where I didn't know if I was going to make it, ... And so, because of being pushed to my limits like that, it made me know that I can accomplish very hard things." This lesson was essential to her career in the music business, which is infamous for its frequent rejection of newcomers. "So that was the biggest thing because a singing career is just really hard. And you have to put up with so much and you have to keep getting back up when you get knocked down. ... And it taught me that I can get back up." In 2002, before coming to UVU, Madsen was a member of the opera company at the Venetian Hotel. With practices and performances adding up to seven hours of singing every day, after about a year, she noticed that all was not well with her throat. She found that she had a tear in her right vocal cord. Doctors told her to go on voice rest for a few months. "Now, voice rest means that not FOR MORE INFORMATION For more information and links to her myspace page and blog, visit www.JeanneMadsen.com only can you not talk, but you can't sigh, you can't make any type of tonation or any type of sound from your vocal cords because it reopens the wound. But I didn't get better. And I went to many ... doctors, and no one could ever figure out what was wrong." Finally, a specialist told her that she had a viral infection that entered her body through the tear, and this was the reason she wasn't healing. After three years of recuperating and on-and-off vocal rest, she was finally able to start singing again. "So I am a living testament that even when the doctors say you're never going to talk again, you can overcome it." After a label picks up her album, Jeanne intends to do a tour with a stop at her alma mater. "When (One Republic) were there, I was just... like, This is going to be me, in like a year and a half or maybe two years.' So absolutely, I want to come to the McKay." As a final few words of counsel for students pursuing a career in the arts, Madsen said, "My advice is keep going no matter what. ... If you know that it is your gift and it is what you're supposed to do, you just have to keep going no matter what happens. Like, if there is a ... brick wall in front of you, you have to go through it. And if there is no way, you make a way." |