CAPTAIN AMERICA 2

Today was a much different routine than usual, which was exciting. Along with the other three interns that are doing their senior projects with me, I went down to the Cleveland Public Library downtown to look up children's books. After we found a couple of good books, we wrote down their titles and authors so that later we could turn their plots into mini plays for the children to act out at GLT's summer camp. We also found several monologue books for teens, and scene collections from famous plays like Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, Harvey, etc. I have never been down to the library before, and it is a really beautiful building - it is reminded me of the many college libraries I had scene while visiting schools, except on a much, much grander scale. It was also exciting because we got to spend a lot of time downtown walking around. We took the free trolley from the Bulkley Building, which is smack dab in the middle of Playhouse Square, down to Public Square where Terminal Tower is. We then walked a couple of blocks to the library. However, there were two super duper exciting things that happened today: first, I ran into Mrs. Gray with her intensive, which pretty much made my day. And then, we got to go down and see them prepare to shoot Captain America 2!!! Today was the first day that the film crew was in Cleveland, and they closed off a couple of blocks of East 6th street to set up. We couldn't get very close, since were were a ton of policemen and security officers all over the place, but we could see them setting up huge cranes with lighting equipment and cameras attached to them. They also had fake police cars all over the place that were labelled "Washington DC Police Department," since Cleveland is being used as a double for DC. As we were walking away from the set, we heard a huge explosion and then a bunch of gun shots. We thought that Cleveland was being invaded, but then we realized that it was for the film (of course), since I am pretty sure they are setting up a car chase scene to be shot on the same location within the next couple of days. Anyways, it was a quite an exhilarating day!