SuNsHiNe DaIsY

June 12th, 2008

We had been told the night before, that call time on this day would be 7:00am. After a moment of shock among us --the extras-- they said we had to check the website in the morning and see if the call time had changed.

At 5:20am I got out of bed and went directly to the computer, hoping with all my heart to read something like "Call time is now 9:00am"... but I didn't. It said exactly the same as the night before. 7:00am. Crazy, I thought. Oh well, it was 5:20 and I was already awake, so I had little over an hour to get ready for the long day ahead.

After breakfast we walked across the street and up the block to the football field, were everything was neatly arranged for the Graduation scene. There was a big cloud above us, but as soon as it passed, we could see it would be a clear day, for there wasn't any other cloud behind it.

I sat in the stands along with the rest of the "audience", sadly looking at all the Graduates lined up in front of us, wishing I could also be wearing a cap and gown along with them. Suddenly I heard someone say, "For all the Graduates that were here on Tuesday for the rehearsal, we have new people joining you today, so please explain to them what we practiced". As soon as I heard this, I rushed to ask if they needed more people down there. Third in the short line of "new people getting their robes", the woman said she only had robes for people 5'8" and up, so she sent the two girls in front of me back to their seats. I was a lot taller than them, but still too short for what they were looking for (I'm 5'6"), so they also told me to go back. I told them I really wanted to be in the scene, and that the 5'8" robe looked good enough for me, but they insisted, so I sat down... close by.

Not even a minute had passed when I walked back towards them, and just stood there, "hanging out". One of the ladies spotted me and signaled to get closer. They asked me how tall I was and I repeated "the 5'8" robe looked good enough", so I tried it on and it fit. The silky white robe reached a little past my ankles, but I didn't care: I was going to be a High School Musical Graduate!!

I am not disclosing what was filmed on that day, I am only saying that it is AMAZING. I'm really anxious to see how it turns out... I think it's going to be the best part of the movie.

The most exciting thing for me was throwing my cap into the air. For my real graduation (November 2007), we weren't given permission to do it... for a whole number of lame reasons. And now, on the set of High School Musical 3, I got the chance!!! Actually... a lot of chances. We had to do a lot of takes for that scene, and after every "CUT!" came the part where we all yelled for our hats. Getting all of them back from the huge crowd took probably even longer than the scene itself.

For the last scene filmed that day, those of us who weren't in the Dancer's group had to go be part of the audience. That was also so much fun. Lots of cheering, dancing, clapping, and going WOOO!!!!!!!

We were done by 8:30. The sun goes down at 9:00 at this time of the year in Salt Lake City, and we needed the light. We would finish filming the Graduation the next day.