Where has one month gone? Down the drain.
September 15th, I moved into my dorm at Barden University, yay! Not. I don’t want to be here. The day I moved in my dad was already lecturing me that music is not a real career, and that there is no chance for me to drop out and move to LA.
I need to start paying my dues at a record label, not wasting time in a philosophy class.
Just because he is a professor here, does not mean that I need a degree. Music producers don’t get that job by “making memories on the quad,” they get there by working their way up in the industry. So to please him, I went to the Activities Fair to try and find SOMETHING to get involved with. I initially went with my roommate, Kimmy-Jin, but she and I aren’t exactly “friends”; she ditched me and made tons of friends at the Korean Students Association. Weirdly enough, at the fair these two girls tried to get me to audition for their a cappella group – what could be more lame? That girl Aubrey has some serious problems, and her friend – was her name Chelsea, Chloe? – has a little too much pep in her step for my taste. After that situation, I was able to get a job at the radio station on campus as an intern. Shocker, dad did not approve.
However, earlier today when he was bugging me about not making any friends after a month, he made a sensible proposition. If I join a club for one year, and “put the effort into” this whole college scam and still do not want to be here, he will pay for me to move to LA!
Now, I’m on a mission: make some friends, have some fun, “put myself out there”, get involved and…get the heck out of here! LA, here I come!
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ReplyDeleteThis scene is pivotal to the quest because it allows our protagonist Beca to embark on her quest – although she does not quite know which quest. She believe that she will join a club to please her father in order to drop out of BU. Unbeknownst to her, her real quest will be to be victorious at the ICCAs (International Championship of Collegiate A cappella) along with the Barden Bellas. Here Beca is starting upon her adventure to victory that she is not yet prepared for: dealing with other ‘knights’ (a cappella singers), travel, and facing trials. The quest expectation seen in this entry is vision. Beca’s father knows that if she really puts in effort to become involved at BU, she will want to complete her degree. Because this is a modern ‘quest’, it diverges in her father not having this vision in some supernatural occurrence. Beca is like Chretien de Troyes’ Perceval in that he does not know what he is getting into with his quest either.
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