Who knew photos could be so stressful?!

Woo! We are getting down to business!! The last few days have been super successful - and somewhat stressful/riddled with pointless anxiety/sleepless - BUT now that the stress is over we're feeling pretty accomplished!

On Wednesday we did a photoshoot with our photographer-friend Yosh (pronounced Josh, I don't know) and it was really so fun! We got some very artsy pics and it was also great to get in some practice for Friday's reshoot of our headshots - we'll get to that later. 

We had the most bang-for-your-buck delicious Chinese sesame chicken for dinner and headed home. We also got our first ever comment and follower on the blog!! YAY! So sweet, Victoria follows us and has her own blog and aspirations to move out to the city of angels - check it out at victoriazway.blogspot.com! 

Thursday was a HUGE day of semi-boring entirely necessary errands. We went apartment hunting, edited our resumes, wrote out our agent letter, and went through the pics from Yosh and found the ones we liked to send to Chambers for his opinion! 

Feeling all sorted, we sat back, Lucy cooked up a storm as per ushe aaand Chambers replied about the pics!

"Make up sucks. Facial expression sucks. Wardrobe and bras suck."

OH S#!@

Noooooo!! Total smack down..

Ugh the night before our reshoot?! We were pretty devastated. We were reshooting the head shots because the first ones weren't up to par and now we'd been told our practice run was a fizzah, yikes!! The only thing that could lift our spirits was this article on buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelrusch/haribo-gummy-bear-reviews-on-amazon-are-the-most-insane-thin

HA so hilarious!! We were in stitches laughing! We scrambled to fix some things for the next day and went to bed for an incredibly restless night's sleep... 

Ahh okay, finally it came time for our head shots! Eeeek! We were crossing our fingers and holding our breathe all morning, but when we got there Anthony, the photographer, totally put us at ease. We shot outside, on the roof and in a street nearby, and it went GREAT! YAY!!! Phewww! We actually ended up having a really fun time! We were thrilled with the pics and preeeetty sure Chambers would like them too! These were the two winners! (Still not retouched)

We ran a couple more errands, and just as we were making a left turn towards the apartment, a police car pulled in front of us and turned its flashing lights on! We didn't think we'd done anything wrong, so we kept driving behind him... then he pulled to the side of the road and, because there was no one else around we guessed that we must've done something wrong so we pulled over too! So terrifying! The police officer got out of his car and we didn't know whether to roll down the window or get out! AH! But then he crossed the street and walked towards an apartment complex hahahaha phew! We felt very stupid but also very relieved! 

So we went home, relaxed, and started watching the first series of Girls - we're completely hooked! 

Today we went to boot camp and got back in the swing of acting for the first time in a few weeks! We met some lovely new people, laughed a lot, AND finally got the okay on our photos/letters/resumes to send out! Wahooo! Now all we need to do is get the pics retouched and we're good to go! 

We went to the Samuel French bookstore after boot camp, then came home and now we're watching (and enjoying) an absolutely dreadful movie. It's been a great couple days and we couldn't be happier or more relieved to've made it through!

Livin' that Cali College Life! :)

-- Hannah --
These last couple weeks have been crazy busy! I've gotten into a great routine and the time's flying by. Some days I sleep in, some I go do homework by the pool, I've been auditioning at Dodge - I got my first callback! YAY! I didn't get the role but it was a step in the right direction! - and I'm learning heaps in my classes. Two weekends ago on Friday night I watched Present Laughter, the first play of the season at Chapman, and it was really good! The acting was great and the show was super funny. Sierra and I went out to a couple parties afterwards and had a great time with some of her sorority sisters. On Saturday, there was a Cirque du Soleil acting/dance workshop on campus which was awesome! We learned about the give and take of energy and being connected to your scene partner - and we also clowned around a bit and played with slapstick comedy. There are just so many cool opportunities here! Sunday was a lazy morning, and I had every intention of doing homework and being productive before a spontaneous Disney trip beckoned! I went in with a few friends and it was a great afternoon! 

We rocked out to ACDC in the car on the way there, did all the big, thrilling rides, hoped to see Steve Carell cause he was there that day (but didn't), and finished the arvo off with Indiana Jones - so cool! It was my first time in Disney without Luce, though, which was a little tough. Two weeks was a long time to be apart! We got back to Chapman around 7:30 and I left for church at 8:30! It's such a great group of people that go and it seems to grow every week! This time Sierra and Matthew came with and it was so nice to share the experience with them.
I had a pretty uneventful week, gearing up for midterms and writing papers, then last Friday night I went to a Delt party with some theatre and dance friends at "The Bayou". 

I learned when I got there that the house got its nickname because the pool is so terrifyingly dirty and murky, with leaves and random objects in it (I'm pretty sure a chair was lost forever in there...), that it looks kinda like a swamp and everyone's afraid to go in it! Haha at least they have a sense of humor about it! It wasn't a super late night, though, because the next day Luce and I were hitting up, you guessed it.... DISNEYLAND!


-- Luce --
Oh my goodness it's been a crazy couple of weeks!!! In the last week of September I did my final performance of my Autodrama and it went well - I got a really good grade and was voted one of the best in my class! :) 
The day after that was my first time ever seeing myself on tv!! It was on the second episode of New Girl and I was so excited!!!!! Ah!

On the Thursday of that week I ushered for the show that my theatre program was putting on and I actually had a really fun time! It was kinda cool to be the person checking tickets and showing audience members where to go! I also had some time to bond with some of the people that I hadn't talked to very much out of class which was lovely.
The night after that I went to a friend's 21st birthday party in Hollywood! He rented out a hotel suite on Hollywood Blvd and invited heaps of people! It was really fun for a while until hotel security showed up because there had been noise complaints! Oops!! So they proceeded to kick everyone out of the room which was pretty stressful.. We all hung out by the pool for a bit and then decided to go our separate ways. When I left I went out and got some calming tea with a friend and then went home around 2:00 in the morning - it was a great night!The next day I had to wake up at 5:30 to get ready to be on the set of Veep by 8! Oh my gosh I did not enjoy only getting 3 hours of sleep! I was exhausted but it was still an amazing day on set!! The cast of Veep were so funny and I think I definitely made it into the shot which is cool! I also got to shake Julia Louis-Dreyfus' hand like 10 times in the scene! Ah it was so awesome - I was starstruck! Another cool thing was that I made friends with a guy who looks EXACTLY like young Leonardo DiCaprio..! I literally couldn't stop staring at him haha :)
Then on Sunday I went to church and MeMe couldn't go which was sad but I organized to meet some of my other school friends there.. But just as I got to the church my friends texted me saying that they actually had to stay home and study that night! Oh no! So I was there alone!! Usually I would have completely freaked out, but I just took a deep breath and decided that I was going to be okay! And, as luck would have it, I was getting some coffee and a nice guy started chatting with me and it turned out that we were both there alone so we decided to sit together! So everything was fine - phew!! I got home that night feeling ready to face the week and also feeling very confident and independent! Yay!
The next week was really rough for both Han and me because we were having some serious separation anxiety! We decided that 2 weeks is far too long for us to stay apart!!
On Thursday Emily, MeMe, and I all went to see the premiere of Don Jon and it was hilarious! Joseph Gordon-Levitt was great and a bunch of scenes were filmed at my school!!! It was crazy!! The girls and I were so excited! The next time we got to school we went to all of the places they had filmed at!! (This was one of them!)

That Friday I ushered again and had some great girl talk with my friend Alicia - it was very therapeutic! :)
Then it was the weekend and I saw Han again!!!!!! Woohoooo!!!!!!


-- Han and Luce --

Saturday was another fun Disney day! It also happened to be Gay Day, which was unexpected, so everyone was wearing red for LGBT pride/awareness. We watched this cute Tangled show with a guy who looked EXACTLY like Flynn Rider it was crazy - unfortunately, he was a bit of a mumbler or maybe drunk? Hopefully not haha but his performance wasn't super compelling. The two narrator guys were hilarious, though, and Rapunzel was perfect! We snuck away from Disney for a couple hours to have lunch at Chapman (including the world's most amazing peanut butter-banana Jamba Juice creations) and do an open call audition together at Dodge.We went back to Disney, we're terrified on Space Mountain again, and - because we just love it - watched Aladdin. We sat right down the front, swooned over Aladdin, and giggled at a hilariously inappropriate moment when one of the guards meant to push Aladdin's shoulder but actually just slapped him right on the man boob hahaha. After that we decided to do a late night Grizzly River Rapids! Apparently 5 years is about long enough to forget how SOAKED you get on that ride!! We were in a raft with this group of Portuguese people, all of us shrieking and getting sloshed with water - too funny. Luce then made quite the fashion statement and changed into Han's sporty shorts she was wearing under her skirt with her cute black blouse, kind of two worlds colliding, but it didn't even matter. We left a little later and crashed at Lucy's place.

On Sunday we had another photo shoot which went really well and was super fun! We'll post pics once he sends them to us. The best part of the weekend, though, was going to Mosaic. The pastor, Erwin, talked all about happiness and how to become happy and it was just incredible, exactly what we needed to hear! Feeling inspired, we drove to Chapman and said goodbye - which wasn't a terribly sad one because we knew we'd be seeing a lot of each other this week because Q's in town! YAY!! This week's excitement will be in a new post, though, and (G'pa, this is for you) we promise to try to be better about updating more regularly!

xoxo

Highlights of the Week!

-- Hannah --
I had an AWESOME week full of socializing, classes, socializing, homework, food, and uhh, socializing! Haha dorm life is crazy and I'm making the most fantastic friends, especially in the performing arts! Hands down the best bonding experience so far was COPA midnight fountain hopping!! Fountain hopping is a Chapman tradition, sort of a right of passage, where students go to campus at night and swim in the fountains. So on Wednesday night Sierra and I, entirely disregarding quiet hours, ran around the entire floor in our swimsuits knocking on doors and spreading the word that all the theatre/music/dance kids should go fountain hopping! The response was amazing - and way more than we expected - EVERYONE came! It was incredible!! 

We went to three different fountains, then back to the first because it was the warmest and stayed for ages. It was so fun and carefree! At one point one of my friends, Chase, baptized me in the name of the stage, the screen, and the performing arts and I knew I was with the right group of people. 

This week I also had my first audition at Dodge for a student film which was a great experience. It was a really good first audition and, even though I'm pretty sure I didn't get the role, I had a fun time and learned a lot. I was also in a short film for someone else in Dodge! Yay! It was a lower level film, one about action and telling the story visually, so there weren't any lines, but it felt great to be back in front of a camera - and this time I was actually the focus of the shot!

One of the other highlights has been solidifying an awesome smaller group of friends within COPA. There're about eight of us that hang out a lot and I feel so lucky to be forming such amazing friendships! 

Friday was the best day of the week for so many reasons! One of which was: Lucy came to visit! 

-- Luce --
I've had a very busy week settling into having long days at school! My classes have all really ramped up and I am already learning so much! 

In my Voice class we are starting to learn some very relaxing yoga - it's so fun! It really helps with controlling breathing and becoming centered at the start of the day!

My Movement class has become really intense because my teacher just got back from Edinburgh and London where she directing a show!! After the calming yoga we go straight into a full-blown workout and I am starting to realize how unfit I truly am haha.

Acting class has also been amazing over the week because we've been doing exercises that form great bonds within my class and I'm discovering a lot about my classmates!

On Thursday night some girls from my class invited me over to their place for a girl's night and it was so lovely! We all talked for hours, ordered Chinese food, and watched Now You See Me which was actually a pretty good movie! I left theirs around 12:30 and got home to bed as quickly as I could so that I could be ready to go see Han the next day! Even though it'd only been 4 days since I'd seen her, I still missed her so much!! Ahhh being separated is so hard...

-- Han and Luce --
Luce got to Chapman around 10:30 and Han gave the Chapman guided tour and shouted lunch and Jamba Juice, yum! After that, the two of us and a bunch of Han's classmates went to Disney together for Dapper Day!! 

Dapper Day was so magical!! We all went looking our best and it was so lovely to see everyone else in the park dressed up too. We also ran into three of Lucy's classmates right as we were entering the park! How's that for some Disney magic?! Feeling oh so dapper, we went on a couple rides, met Tianna, then had to duck out back to Chapman for an audition at Dodge that we were both doing! 

The audition was for three student films, one comedy, one sci-fi, and one coming of age story. It was great that Lucy was allowed to audition too! We're so much stronger when we're together and it felt like a great precedent of helping each other out to set as we start a long career together in this industry. We both learned SO MUCH, there really is nothing quite like an audition to prepare you for the next one, so the more experience we can get, the better we'll be for sure!

After the audition, Han treated Luce to a buffet dinner in the cafeteria, then we decided to head back into Disney for another hour and a half of Dapper Day! We took in the ambiance of Main Street at night, went on Star Tours, then, with only five minutes till the park closed, ran across to frontier land to finish the night off on Splash Mountain! We JUST made it and Luce ended up getting SOAKED, too funny! 

Then it was time to drop Han back and say goodbye. It was a perfect little top up visit, though, and we're probably going to see each other next weekend - and we feel no shame! Thank God we ended up at schools only 45 minutes from each other, though, because this whole "getting some independence from each other" plan hasn't been quite what we were expecting...

-- Hannah --
Friday was a HUGE day and my weekend certainly didn't stop there! This was rush weekend for sororities and I loved the whole experience, it was unbelievable! I missed the start of it, which was on Friday, for Disney and auditions (shhh) but I threw myself right in on Saturday and Sunday. I went into it knowing that I probably wouldn't pledge, just because of the huge financial commitment, but rush alone was such a unique experience! On Saturday I went to five parties for different houses and learned all about them and their philanthropy. I met so many incredible women; everyone seemed really kind and genuine - in a lot of ways they broke the stereotype I was expecting. The parties were so different from anything I've ever been a part of before: all the PNMs (potential new members) got lined up in alphabetical order then walked into the room and the sorority sisters were singing and had a whole routine worked out, there were speeches, then it was time to girl flirt like I've never girl flirted before! After the six hour day, one house stood out above the others for me, Delta Gamma, and I felt such a connection with the girls there. When I narrowed down my preferences last night, DG was at the top of my list and I got lucky enough to get invited back today! There were only two parties to go to and I met more really lovely DGs and Kappas (from Kappa Kappa Gamma, the other sorority I was invited back to). When it came down to it, though, I had to say goodbye to all the beautiful girls I'd met and hope that they'll still want to hang out with me even if I'm not affiliated! Haha I'm so glad I did it, though, it was definitely one of those surreal American college experiences that I'll remember for a long time to come.

Sierra and I got all dressy for rush!



The last highlight of my week was last night, after rush finished, when Sierra, Katie, and I organized a surprise picnic for Grace, Chase, and Matthew who'd been in a show that day. We smuggled desserts out of the caf, scoped out the perfect viewing spot, brought pillows and blankets, downloaded the actual soundtrack they play in the park and set up to watch the Disneyland fireworks!! It was so much fun and they loved the surprise! Katie managed to sync up the music PERFECTLY and we all put on a little extra weight thanks to our yummy goodies.

It's been a wonderful week full of so many precious memories and I'm feeling so confident that what's already incredible will only get better and better!

-- Luce --
On Saturday I was booked for background work on the pilot of the show "Faking It" that could potentially be on MTV! It was so amazing to be back on set - I had missed working so much over the past two weeks. There was a great vibe on this set and I recognized a lot of people that I'd worked with in the past which was great! One problem was that the show was set at a high school in the fall, so I had boots, jeans, a T-shirt, and a flannel shirt on but it was 95 degrees outside!!!!!!!!! I thought I was going to pass out from heat stroke a couple of times! Oh my gosh it was so hot... But there were a lot of times that I could retreat to the air-conditioned indoors so thank god for that! I had also forgotten how amazing the food is on set, so I stuffed my face at lunch - yum! After 9 hours of filming the extras were wrapped and we all got on a school bus (which brought on some serious deja-vu!) that took us back to basecamp to sign out. I went home, made dinner, and got an early night in preparation for today...

Today I had my first ever photoshoot! It was an interesting experience because everything was completely new to me..! The photographer I worked with was really nice and he was relatively new as well so there wasn't too much pressure. The location was great too - we were shooting in Griffith Park at the Old Zoo which was beautiful and very artsy! I think it went pretty well considering that it was my first ever modelling job and I had no idea what I was doing, and it definitely gave me a new appreciation for all of the people who go on America's Next Top Model and shows like that because it wasn't easy!

Tonight was wonderful too because I decided to go to church with MeMe and it was so so amazing. She goes to Mosaic church and it was beautiful! There was really great live music as we went in and the singing just elevated my spirits and made me so happy that MeMe had invited me to go with her! Then the sermon was all about healing and it just resonated so much with me - I had tears running down my face and I don't even consider myself to be a religious person! It was such a cathartic experience. There was a great message and I left feeling inspired and ready to face the week ahead.