Ciao!

Hey there friends, I am in ITALY!!!

We have spent the last few days in Rome going to various things around town such as the Spanish Steps, the Vatican and a seedy disco that I never want to go back to ever again.

Tomorrow we take our bus to Arezzo and there we will spend the next 5 weeks learning the wonderful oprea The Marriage of Figaro! Its going to be a summer full of vino and singing and FUN!

Until then, CIAO!

Jason

The Italian Connection

So... as many of you may know, I am going to be in Italy this summer singing Figaro with Oberlin In Italy! I have decided to try and keep this updated with everything that my friends and I are doing while in Italia.

I know I might be having delusions of grandeur here, but I think that I can update fairly regularly. My family will be getting crazy if I dont some how let them know what I'm doing.

I shall try. I shall also try to get pictures on here too. We'll see how that goes...

Addio!

An update during class... I'm soooooo cool.

Right now... I'm in the basement of our library sitting through a lecture about Polanski's film Knife in the Water. Its a pretty badass movie, but I'm slowly finding it hard to take these long lectures... Blah. The movies are awesome but I just dont like talking about them... haha. I guess though that is my own fault for taking a class about movies...

During Spring Break Jake's best friend from home, Ellis, came and we cooked an extravagant feast for some friends. We made: Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Chicken Saltimbocca, Veggies, and two wonderful cakes: Chocolate Stout Cake!! and upside-down Banana Walnut Cake. It was wonderfullllllll.
I'm still trying to figure out how to work this blog business... I'll try and be more graceful later...

LARGE UPDATE ON MY LIFE!

So. I've been away from this thing for quite some time now, and I thought that I might write something.


Right now I'm on Spring Break!!!! Wooo hooooooooo! Trouble is I'm spending it in freaking Oberlin againnnnn. I guess its not too bad. I'm staying here and working and making some money before I go to...

ITALY!!! This summer I'm doing my schools program in Italy! We're doing the opera The Marriage of Figaro and I'm playing Figarooooooooooo! My best friend here Shelly is playing my counterpart Susanna and we are going to be the cutest pair the world has ever seen. For real. The program is 5 weeks long during June and July this summer based in Arezzo which is in the Tuscany region of Italy. I'm so excited. I've never been outside of the country and I'm way excited that Italy is my first venture. A ton of my friends are going and we're going to be a drunken mess all summer. Its going to be great.

So... as far as school is concerned I'm super checked out. My senior recital is over (!!!) and was very awesome, and the only thing I really have to do is Opera Scenes at the end of the semester (also, to learn Figaro...). I'm just coasting at this point.

Grad School... well. I'm still waiting to hear from Curtis and that will determine where I end up next year. I'll keep you updated when I know more.

I think I'm gonna go watch a movie or something. Ciao friends -

TRANSFORMATIONS!

Everyone should come see TRANSFORMATIONS at the Cat and the Cream at Oberlin College this Thursday and Sunday!

Now that thats out of the way, grad school is looming in the distance. I've already had my audition at Rice University and that went really well. I think Rice would be a really cool place to go to grad school, even if it is in Texas. My Juilliard and Curtis auditions are coming up and I'm pretty excited about them. I really have no idea where I'll end up next year - I just have to make sure these auditions go really well!!

I just started a Seamless Hybrid Sweater this month!!!!!!! I'm so freaking excited about it. Its not toooooo intricate, but the way you add the sleeves and the construction itself is amazing. Hopefully, I'll be able to get that done in time to still wear it out this season!

Also...

MY RECITAL IS ON FEB 23rd!!!!! Ahhhhh! I'm singing Schubert, Ibert, Rachmaninoff and Cumming. I'm so so so excited/freaking out about it. It'll be great, I know it will... hopefully... haha.

I have to go to a dress rehearsal... lala.

Ahhhh! Ravelry!!!

I know no one reads this blog but I'm going to post anyway.

I've been on this website called Ravelry and its pretty freaking amazing. Its basically a social network where people can upload pictures of their knitting and talk about yarns and be deliciously nerdy about knitting. I LOVE IT! I am so addicted. Its just so amazing. Now that I can see other peoples work (work that is so beautiful) I'm going to try to make my knitting as polished and beautiful as these other people.

Update: I'm not going to make the 'Cap Karma'. I've decided that I dont like it anymore. Haha. I've instead decided to make the 'Shedir' hat for my Dad. I think I'll pick a cool black and it'll look badass. I'm excited.

Happy Holiday knitting everyone!

-Jason

I like hats!

I need to learn how to knit something from start to finish before starting something else.

This week I added two hats to my needles and I just can't stop myself. I am the furthest along on the Red Light Special hat (which is pretty sweet). Its my first fair-isle project and I love it. The other two, Koolhaas and the Cap Karma are awesome too, and just want to knit them all at once!!!! Ahhhh! But alas, I cannot. And I have a shit ton of music to learn. And I'm going to NYC again tomorrow. But my mom is going to come and visit me while I'm there! Hoorah! I'm gonna try and catch the Macbeth at the Met tomorrow night. It looks to be pretty badass.

La la... no work to be done in the con library... la la...

I guess I could look over my music...

PS - I have a freaking HUGE craving for Korean BBQ. For real.