Auditions for L'École de Cirque de Québec

So, as probably quite a few of my Facebook friends already know, late Thursday through Friday I was in Québec, Québec with three of my friends from NECCA (one also from ProTrack (Morgan), and two from the Intensive program (T and Kirby)) for the L'École de Cirque de Québec auditions (in the rest of this post, L'École de Cirque de Québec is to be mentioned as ÉCQ, which is not to be confused with ÉNC, which is L'École Nationale de Cirque in Montréal, Québec).

Anyway, first and foremost, there was a lot of French, and like my 11th grade class trip to Spain, it made me really disappreciate the way that foreign languages were taught in high school.  Anyway, about said Canadian journey:

We left by car Thursday afternoon after a somewhat intense day at ProTrack.  The most ridiculous part about that training day was that during conditioning they had us do an ungodly number of frog jumps.  I literally got to the point where my muscles were simply giving out on me and I could barely just get myself even a foot off of the ground.  Afterwards, when I'd try to squat, my legs would completely buckle.  It'd felt like gravity decided to double every time I'd bend my knees.  While it was overall very fascinating from a physiological standpoint, it wasn't exactly the ideal state to be in the day before of a big audition.  Regardless, what is done is done, and I managed to go through the entire audition with absolutely ridiculously sore quadriceps.  Fortunately, I don't think it ended up affecting what they saw of me very much.

Anyway, the car ride was six hours each way, with the US-Canadian border to divide the ride in half.  It was a long ride, yet still very manageable thanks to being in a car with three absolutely wonderful people.  It pretty much rained/drizzled a good part of going up there (what else is new) but wasn't to the extent as to pose an impediment to our travels.