I just dropped off my girlfriend at the airport which means that every member of my family who came to California for my graduation has now left. My house is quiet, I’m alone.
I graduated from CalArts with a BFA in Acting one week ago, I also turned 26. ‘When I came to the United States almost four years ago I was a completely different person’, would be a way to describe my experience, because it was life-changing. ‘I learned so much in my time here’, would be another, because most everything I know about acting are things I was taught at CalArts. But I can’t seem to find the words that encapsulate my experience. I can’t seem to say anything that doesn’t sound hollow or untrue.
I somehow feel like the next chapter is well underway and the time for new things and challenges is here. I feel grateful for my experience at CalArts, but I’m ready for my life to change. To not be bound to the school’s deadlines and timelines and schedules. I’m ready to find a new artistic depth with my work that one can only truly reach in the field. I want to do the job I’ve trained to do. And I was cast in a play that will play at Hollywood Fringe and I’m playing in a fundraiser for the Eaton Fire. And I want to meet new people and catch up with old ones and draw on old experiences to make new ones.
The new chapter’s well underway, but I’ll still share a picture from the graduation.
🙂