<p>RossJi, I honestly know nothing about a Tischie gathering in NYC on May 8. Which NYU forum is that? A livejournal one? A CC one? A facebook group? Not only did I not know about it, I doubt my D did or that she knows of whatever this online group is. EVEN IF she did, no she would not be going, lol. That is cause we live six hours away and I am certainly not going on that trip in a week. We were just there two weeks ago for the Saturday in the Square events and I just drove to Phila. with her this past weekend as well. It just is not happening. Thankfully it is nothing that came up! So, shhhh, in case she reads this forum!? ;-) </p>
<p>I would not be against meeting up with kids who were entering NYU who she met online too much but yeah, I hear ya on letting her go into the city alone and nobody specific to meet her that you know in any case. I know it is weird cause here we are letting them go next year! The most I have let my D do in NYC on her own was after her Feb. audition, I left her in NYC (I headed to VT....in fact, heard of her first college acceptance on that train ride....the one to Ithaca) and I left her with Freelance's D who was also auditioning that day and who knows the city well and goes in all the time alone. The girls then met up with a summer friend/roomie who goes to Tisch and spent the night in her dorm but also met up with a bunch of current Tisch friends and a few who came into the city who are going next year (whom are friends who had gotten in ED). She had begged to do this because she is always dying to see her summer theater friends and they can do it often cause many of them live in commuting distance to the city and she does not. I let her loose, you could say, in NYC but she was with these kids who either live there or know the city well and go there all the time. She even made a point to me about how she'd be there on her own next year so why not one night this year. I did ask that Freelance's D (who is a doll, you are right) go with my D to Penn Station and see her to the train just in case it did not work out and I did not want my D alone in NYC cause she has not done it before and does not know the city that well yet. She had to make that train as it was the only one to VT that day. She has traveled alone by train and plane but always when someone met her on either end of the trip. Also, if she did not make it, I knew she could go back to CT with Freelance's D. That is the most she has done alone in NYC pretty much. Oy, just thinking of next year....opposite extreme, I know. But it has to happen sometime. Your D has to know the city better than mine given where you live and I know she has done work in the city in the past. My D has been to NYC many many times but always supervised and with me. (Once I was the only parent supervising about 8 camp friends who gathered in the city and stayed in a hotel with me and saw a show). Besides all this, there is the expense involved, given our distance. My D has been to NYU now three times and has done two overnights with friends in dorms so she does not need to go back. I realize this might be about meeting new kids but she has time in orientation to do that, plus she did the Tisch event two weeks ago. She also knows quite a few kids who either go to Tisch or will be entering this fall, including who she is going to room with. Even if she did not, she is comfortable in new situations. The gathering does sound fun though. If I lived as close as you do and my D had a way to get into the city and I had spoken with who would meet her on the other end, I'd do it. I realize next year, this level of "supervision" would not be happening. But I also feel, as I did with my older D who is now 18, that the line of "supervision" is drawn until they go to college for some of these sorts of travel things. Now that SHE is in college, she comes and goes without my OKing each thing. I mean I am letting THAT child drive to Alaska this summer! How's that for letting her loose! Anyway, for now, during high school, if my kid goes on a "trip"....she can go alone but has to meet someone on the other end. </p>
<p>And regarding the "fun part"....um, yeah, the loans...oy, don't remind me.....they will keep going and going and going....like the Energizer bunny....I mean I have TWO at once, and they were to go two years apart but now are going one year apart. </p>
<p>I hope our girls meet up...am sure they will as they are in the same program. I told my D about yours (and whoever else on the forum is heading to CAP). I know you guys have met her best bud and her mom (Freelance). </p>
<p>Good luck with Guys and Dolls....a fave. My D has never done that show but one of her earliest performances or songs she was "known" for was Adelaide's Lament...was quite young the first time she performed that in a show....wig and all...was in the paper in fact....fond memories. Is your D Adelaide by chance? Just think, you have a great excuse why she cannot go, right? And honestly, the night before that date you wrote, it is All States here and my D should go for the award presentation. So, there is my excuse. Thankfully this is the one thing she has not begged to do. Doubt she heard about it!</p>
<p>Susan</p>