November Vlog

What a way ti start the holidays with November! I lived my first Thanksgiving and Black Friday experience! 

It feel very weird because I felt like I knew a lot about it from before, you know what you get ti see in movies and since my school worked with a very "american system," it was as if I experienced ir before, but not reeally.

Eveb though my Thanksgiving dinnee was not to anerican-ish it was still a beautiful dinner with my Ucranian/Mexican/American host family. We had a little taste if every country so it was like home for me.

That morning I also went to the SO famous Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. I thiught there would be A LOT of people, but I got there and found a spot where I was able to see everything. I loved it so much, it was lovely and so festive. I really, really enjoyed it, so much that I almost filmed the entire thing! (Yiu will notice in my video).

And for Black Friday I was soooo ready to "shop until I drop"! But the truth is I couldn't find any good sales. Well I guess I wasn't ment to spend any money at all. I went with Ariane and some of her friends from New Jersey. Even though we didn't buy anything we had so much fun. By the end of the day we went to Batery Park and had the most ANAZING hot chocolate. We sat by the ice skating rink and chat for a while. It was more than beautiful.

I also included a little bit of stage combat! I joined the club in August, and we are getting to do some real cool stuff. I am not good at it but Hod do I enjoy it! Besides everyone is so nice and funny, they care so much that we learn and we are able to maybe use it in our careers. On December we are filming a Short, the fight starts with an argument related to the Stabucks' "red cup" thing. It is si funny can't actually wait.

I just can thank enough for everything that has been going on. I just can believe how much God loves me and blesses me with every single day. At times I honestly think I might wake up of this dream, but I am still here, which is insane. Thanks, thanks, thanks for another beautiful month. Next month would be half NY and half back home! Get ready for Christmas!

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

Well... I know it might be too soon but still it is starting to smell like Christmas! It is one of my favorite seasons of the year! And since in less than a month I'll be back home for the holidays I thought I should share a video from last year! It seems like this was yesterday, I can't believe it is going to be Christmas again! So back home we have many different traditions from other countries.

Posadas

In my family we have this tradition where we do 9 days, of this sort of party, in representation of the nine months of Virgin Mary's pregnancy. Each day it's in a different house, and what we do is sings songs, do a representation of what Mary and David did, pray, eat a lot and hit the piñata! 

I love doing all of this because I get to spend a lot of time with my family and friends and I get to see everyone having such a great time.

Can't wait to go! I mean I'm having an awesome time here but I could have a big hug from everyone back home.

I have in the works a video from September - October here in New York, and also I should start doing the November one... oops! Last week my American/Ucrenian/Mexican adoptive family took me to the zoo in Central Park! It was such a beautiful day, so perfect! The video won't make justice to it but still you need to see it!

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Sister Makeup Swap Challenge

Hello!

My sister and I have COMPLETELY different styles, she is more into Rock & Roll and I am more into a romantic edgy style (I guess...). So during the summer we filmed this just for fun, but I decided to edit it and send it to her, because I miss her craziness so much and just bein around her and do our stuff together. Thought I could share this!

Love you so much my lil' sis,

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Dreams do come true

Hello

Yes, I know I always do this and I always say I will stop and do this frequently and I don't. Soooo I will stop promising that I will and I'll do it when I can do it. With this said I can start with my bla bla bla ;).

I always say that dreams do come true, of course there is hard work involved, but they do happen. I look back and I remember my 12 year old self dreaming of acting just on the school stage. Later on I day dreamed about acting on Broadway. I always said to my friends how much I would love to travel the world, act all around the world and live in New York. 

Now I see my life and I have no clue in what instant it all became true. It al started when I moved to Spain and since then all my dreams started coming realities. I have about a month and a half living in New York... NEW YORK. Of course I have to do a lot of sacrifices because everything is SO expensive, but in the end it is worth it. 

Also, I am attending to a University in New York... WHAT? So now, I did an audition, thinking that by any chance I would get a role. Then I got a callback and that on it's own it was insane, and then I got the read for the two leading roles on the play... CRAY-ZY.

Today I got the news that I am in the cast... as a LEADING ROLE. The role it is not important to me at all, I have learned to have fun doing what I love, no matter what the job involves. But of course, I won't lie, it is very satisfying to get this responsibility. I have been acting since I was five years old, and I have many joys but also many struggles. 

This have just started, and I am incredibly blessed. Full of joy, couldn't ask for more. I know this is just the beginning and I have to work three times harder.

Lot's of love

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Make up class!

Hello! I've been taking this week some make up classes, but not any type of make up... MAKE UP FOR THEATER <3


Today we did some drag, and it's so crazy! Specially getting the eye brows covered...

                                

In my previews classes I did an old women and a kinda very punched faced.

It's been so much fun, sadly I have to classes left, and as I said yesterday the countdown continues. Today I started packing because it's what I hate the most of traveling. Oh well, 12 days left.

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