Blog Post #1

 Hi! My name is Emma Thi Snyder, (pronounced “tie”), and I have pretty simple goals this year. I just want to try and get straight As throughout the year (which I’m hoping will be easier with the new grading scale), and I also want to pass all my ap exams, and those are my big ones. For smaller goals I’d like to act more (hopefully when it’s safe we can do more productions at hc), and I’d also like to try and draw more, and improve on violin. I love love love music in all forms but I especially musical theatre! That’s probably what “geeks me out” the most. My favorites are Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company, Phantom of the Opera, and Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. As you can see I’m a BIG Sondheim fan but I also put a newer one I like as well. Some of the newer ones though, are getting to be too much, for example I don’t know if every 80s movie needs a musical… (example, Heathers, Beetlejuice, Mean Girls, etc…) I definitely prefer the classics because they always just seem to have much deeper meanings that the music is able to convey and there seems to be much more symbolism put into some of those older ones. Especially with Sondheim’s word choice in his lyrics, he’s able to write lots of puns and things that have double meanings in his lyrics and I think it’s so clever the way he can do that and also invoke different moods in people with his music and also use his songs to develop characters and stories and if anyone wants to discuss musicals with me I’d be glad to do so! Speaking of musical theatre, in 9th grade I auditioned for my first musical in the spring and got the toks I auditioned for. This link (https://youtu.be/zO6Ak6ocjQM) should take you to my solo I got to perform in the show! It was my first time performing and was so much fun and it was a difficult thing for me to do so I was really proud of myself. I’m not a typical theatre kid (I hate public speaking, I’m not in speech and debate, I hate talking in class and in group discussions), but I love it and I hope anyone reading can come see future productions at hc. :) 

As for the most meaningful moment during Covid, I haven’t really had one I don’t think. I’ve just been getting more sleep and spending more time with my family so that’s good I suppose. I don’t really use too many websites other than like google docs, and canvas, and stuff like that, but I’ve always loved https://m.coolmathgames.com/. Cool Math Games always has some fun stuff to mess around with when you don’t wanna do schoolwork. Plus it’s got some good childhood memories for me. 

Ps my middle name is the same as my grandmas middle name, and she is from Vietnam so it’s a Vietnamese name!