"We know what we are, but not what we may be." - William Shakespeare

15th September 2010

My first impression

Today is my 10th day here at Pearson College. At the beginning I wasn’t sure to attend this class because I would like to continue my studies in a university of international law or diplomatic and international science, so I supposed it was better for me to take a Spanish or French class.

In my past school I did drama and I discovered that this subject interest me very much. I know that Drama and Theatre are two different things but I really want to learn more about both of them.

In these first classes I learnt a lot of things listening to Libby and also watching the performances of my other classmates. Libby splitted us into pairs and each pair was assigned to play a small part. We were all free to stage what we prefered. At the beginning I was teaming with Amelia, a Canadian girl. In the next class, she was sick, so I worked with our new classmate from Wales, Robin.

At the beginning we had some difficulty in deciding what to do, but then we found something funny to do. Our first performance was not very good but with Libby's help, we did a very nice job. The same thing happened more or less, also with the other couples.

I knew before the majority of the things we did, but now I'm learning them better. I'm learning how to use better the stage, the lights and the objects that make more likely my performances.

For now, the major areas of weakness that I need to work on to become a better "theatre" person is to be as truthful as I can and show the audience what I'm feeling. I think these are also my major strength areas.

I’m happy to be in this class and I don’t think I’m going to change my class. Also my classmates are nice; actually I can’t really say that we are a unit group but I’m sure we are going to have a lot of things to share and to learn many things each by the others.

I think this is the beginning of two long years in which I'm going to make my "theatre" person better.

Gugu