Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Hello!

Greetings, Internet!

My name is Kristen Weller, and this happens to be my first ever blog (unless you count the half-hearted Xanga page I had in high school...which you shouldn't). I am a first year MFA candidate in Costume Technology at the University of Texas at Austin.

I understand there may be many reasons you are saying "...what?"right now, so allow me to explain a few things:

1) MFA: Master of Fine Arts, or (as I like to think of it: Mutha F*%#in' Artist!)
2) Costume Technology: Making costumes (Tailoring, Draping, Millinery, Fabric Painting and Dying, Armor-Making, etc) for the stage and screen
3) University of Texas at Austin--believe it or not (believe it) there is great theatre outside of New York, some of it's in Texas! ;)

While my life has taken me many places in my fast 24 years, I decided, like many before me, to create a blog about my latest travel experience: travel abroad! Like my blog, this is my first experience traveling outside of the United States, and I will be going to one of the last places I ever imagined living:

TAIWAN!



The gate of the Chaing Kai Shek Memorial

...or as my 5 year old nephew calls it, WAITAN!


In less than one week, I am traveling from this:



My parents' cabin in beautiful Northern Minnesota in the heart of winter during a pristine snowfall, my favorite place in the world

To this:


Taipei National University for the Arts, located in Taipei, Taiwan 
(This is a picture I stole from Google Images of Taipei)

I suspect it will be quite different. :) 




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