The Rain in Spain

           This week in Int. 95, our guest speaker was Irwin Appel, the Director of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Training (BFA).   He made his life story sound really interesting.  Mr. Appel said his main goal in life was to “act, play guitar, and meet women.”  However with the advice of his mother, “ a good actor is a smart actor”, Mr. Appel attended Princeton and then went on to Julliard in New York City. He then talked all about his adventures in the city and how much he loved traveling to do what he loved, acting. It all sounded great, but then reality struck and he realized that he no longer wanted to be out on the road, but instead settle down and teach others what he had learned about acting. 

In an attempt to settle somewhere, Mr. Appel interviewed for UCSB and actually got the job.  Fourteen years later, he still loves his job.  He told us that his class, Naked Shakes, is putting on a production of Macbeth.  I recently saw the play and I must say, it was amazing.  Mr. Appel is a very talented director and his once piece of advice that I found most useful was to take a class that you would normally not even think of taking because in the end it may end up being the best class you ever took.

My Int. section visited the Education Abroad center and there I found out that my dreams of visiting Spain and Australia can come true.  The students that gave us the presentation about the program were well informed and had first hand experiences about their travels.  I learned that any major could study abroad which is really exciting.  I would  really love the opportunity to go abroad because I want to see all the different cultures of this world.