This is my first blog for my new website (www.celiameiubin.com -- which is not technically up and running just yet, but I want to have this blog already posted when we finally enter the ether-world) so I suppose I should say welcome, and thanks for taking the time to have a look around at a little piece of me. I'm writing this at the end of a loooooooong but inspiring couple of days and though I'm tired and ready to crawl under my duvet, I'm pleasantly warm inside, filled with gratitude and peace. It has certainly been an incredibly challenging 4 months since my move from London to Manhattan. I won't lie -- at times it has been very lonely and overwhelming, and I have shed many a tear. To move your life from one place to another is hard enough...to move your life across and ocean completely by yourself...WELL!! Thank goodness I am filled with an unbending desire to realise my dreams, or I never would have taken that leap. But it was a leap, a leap of faith, and my feet are ever so slowly coming back towards the ground to safety. I have a feeling that they won't land for awhile yet, but I'm happy to be free falling. What a ride! Here I am in NYC, an actual struggling actress, going from dance calls to singing calls, from the Upper West Side to the Lower East Side, eating sushi, hot pastrami sandwiches, pho, and everything else in between. Pretty fantastic! So, over the last couple of days, I have auditioned for a Broadway show and gotten really positive feedback from the casting director (hallelujah!), gotten a callback for the leading role in a show that I went to an open dance call for (more on that, should it go further for me), attended Alan Cumming's debut album release (what an INSPIRATION of a man), and had a rehearsal for a lovely pas de deux I am dancing in (gorgeous MGM-style). I'm exhausted, but smiling and happy. It's a time of new beginnings, and I'm so looking forward to seeing where these beginnings will eventually lead me. But, for tonight, I am going to put my dreams to rest and snuggle up with Alan Cumming's CD. It is certainly lovely to be right here, right now.
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