I really enjoyed starting to learn my two scenes. Firstly, the Michael and aggie scene I'm really enjoying because of the great amount of enthusiasm I get to show. Albeit it's not really me in real life, having this opportunity to go outside my comfort zone truly feels amazing. Overall, I currently feel fairly comfortable for the scene, but there are a few part which are a little more challenging.

The first part, is the introduction of the scene when Michael sneaks up on Aggie. It's not so difficult to scare someone, but It's hard to make it look like your trying to scare someone but at the same time make sure people see what's happening.

We've been practicing in rehearsals on acting our two separate roles. I had to constantly remind myself that I'm to act as a seven year old, and Bella had to remind her that she's an Irish maid. I found my self constantly trying to remember memories from my childhood, almost attempting to reenact the attitude I had when I myself was seven years old.

A difficult thing I've been running into while in rehearsals is this appliance I have greatly affecting my speech causing me to slur words. I've constantly had to remind myself to talk a lot slower so that whatever I say is at least somewhat audible.

Overall, even though there are a few difficulties, I do feel quite confortable for the scene over all.

The second scene I'm working on, Dick and Harvey, I find to be a very interesting one. Because of the way the scene is orientated, a lot of the acting for Harvey is coming through the delivery of words, while Dick's acting is coming mostly from his emotions that are shown throughout the scene.

To look the saddest possibly at certain sections of the scene, I kept noticing my self attempting to put myself in the exact situation, acting as if I was talking to my dad myself (it works!).

The most difficult part I've found in the scene is to act the parts where I show a little bit of "I do not want to be here" attitude. This especially is the case in the lines such as "Of course I will dad", etcetera.

Once again, mostly I feel confortable for the scene, I just need to keep practicing making myself show deep emotions, since that's where the majority of my acting is coming from.

The performance is finally done! I feel really proud of myself for getting through it, It being my very first performance, ignoring those silly French plays. To start, I feel really proud of both performances, but I still feel like I could have improved a lot more.

To start, I feel really happy about how the Michael and Aggie scene turned out. The beginning felt perfect, and laughs seem to appear everywhere they were supposed to. I feel really good about this scene, except for one part.

I felt that in the end I still did do a lot of slurring. Since I was so extremely nervous, I would keep attempting to sped the lines up to get out as quickly as possible, causing lines to feel as if they became almost impossible to understand. Because of the many laughs that occurred, I hope that this belief is wrong! Another section that bothered me slightly was the pronunciation of certain words, the prime suspect being hug. Every time I had that word come across, I'd say "houg" instead. I constantly felt so embarrassed, but I guess it fits the role of Michael.

My other scene of Dick and Harvey I felt overall the same about. There were a few points of little early blips coming out of me, but other than that I felt as if I talked much slower and louder in this scene than Michael and Aggie.

The prime example of this early blip occurred near the end. For about three or so seconds, Rory and I were jumping back slightly confused over who is supposed to talk (the fault being me in the end of course), but I felt like we quickly fixed that problem.

Other than that, I felt very comfortable about the scene. I talked what I felt like was very loud, without looking like I'm yelling, and didn't slur my words too much, or at all possibly.

Beginning a group of two new scenes, I'm quite interested by the two new character roles I'm going to be playing. They're both very distinguished and different roles, so I'll be able to explore opposite sides of the spectrum.

            My first character is the hyper-eccentric 7-year-old boy named Michael. I'm a great fan of his attitude just because almost the opposite of what I act. In class I'm the one who barely talks and just giggles at the laughter's here and there; this role pushes me to my limit and makes me act is the exited yelling child. This role over the few times I've practiced it seems to be quite interesting, and I'm really excited to start understand the scene a little more. He's a very fidgety child, complains a lot and seems to be a very loud and whiny child. This role although difficult for to me play, seems like it's going to be one that's going to be extremely fun and exciting to learn, allowing me to step out of my  "comfort zone".

            My second character is practically the opposite of my first. He's an old middle-aged man, with a very calm, respective, and soothing voice, at least it seems as if that's his character. The scene show's that he has a few moments of naughtiness, but not many. This character feels like a much more representative scene of my, and my true attitude. It won't be as difficult of a character to play, but still one that is going to be an exciting one.

            Overall, I'm extremely exited to play both of these characters, their completely different in terms of attitude so It'll allow me to explore an entire spectrum.

      My first initial thought of the script was good. I was fairly excited to place the roll of Eddie since I've really been interested in his character. The other scene did seem as if it would be something that I wouldn't mind doing, but it seemed to be too boring, dragging on. One thing that I'm terribly worried about is my accent. Even though the accent isn't the most important thing, I still wouldn't want to perform without an accent at all. Overall, I'm really excited to start doing this. It's going to be my first real scene that I do (overlooking the previous French plays) so I'm both anxious, nervous, and excited to do it for the first time.

     I've always been so interested in Improv, how they come up with things on the spot, how they never get nervous and just don't know what to say, It just seemed so impossible. Now that I've started to do some Improve, I thought I'd start to understand some parts and how to do actions such as coming up with things on the spot, but boy was I still wrong. I'm always nervous that I'd just say something that would make NO sense what so ever in any context. I know that it most likely normal that people feel this way and that I shouldn't worry so much, but I just can't do it.

     However, some good (Other than having fun) has come out of Improv. Since when I'm doing Improv I worry about not being able to come with a line, that when I do I feel so pushed to do a good job acting it.

     For me, I always have the most fun during Improv when we do certain activities such as the dating game, or an occupation, location, and murder weapon. Just the fact that some info is given to me I feel a little more comfortable acting since I have that info to fall back on. Overall I really enjoy doing Improv, there are those times that I get really worried, but I always have fun doing it.

          Ghosts, a story about how ghosts aren't just figments in our imagination, but about how they are wants and desires that us as humans can never get rid of, is a very interesting and intriguing way of showing how intense and suspending a play can be. Written in 1881 Norway, Ghosts was originally Written by Henrik Ibsen and later adapted by Morris Panych.

Ghosts was a story about how the husband of Mrs. Alving had his memories and moments haunt his child, Oswald Alving. Mrs. Alving through out the play never seemed to love her husband, he was labeled as a terrible and possibly abusive husband. She was always afraid to tell anybody about how she never loved her own husband, until she broke and told Pastor Manders. Later on, Oswald Alving eventually told his mother about the troubles that he was recently going through and about how when he visited a doctor that he was told about how he's suffering from the worst possibly disease. Oswald has been dragging around the thoughts and memories of his father, killing him from the inside out. He can't stand the darkness and depression that he's been enduring, and he tells Mrs. Alving about how that has been what's been leading away to come home. During this whole main event is happening, I felt that there were little side plots going on, once again sending the same message. All of these little plots and side-plots seem to all be based on one key theme, family. The relationship between Mrs. Alving and Oswald, the relationship between Oswald and his father, the relationship between Regine Engstrand and Jacob Engstrand, all of these relationships in these families create stories within themselves. However, it's not left at just the families, the relationships shown seem to be dark and depressing relationships. Even though the message was the same throughout the play, it wasn't that predictable. There were a few moments such as the ending, which was a little bit expected, but still a small shock. There weren't many twists but the ones that there were, such as the fire, were big ones.

Acting? I thought the play was actually happening right in front of me. All of the characters, especially Oswald Alving played by Gregory Prest, were all fantastic. When Jacob Engstrand told the news about the fire spreading, the reactions and emotions on people's faces were unbelievably realistic. When Oswald was explaining to his mother about his problem, the emotion put in was so deep and powerful you felt as if he's trying to talk to you. These little moments made the characters have so much depth and naturalness you felt that you were in the room with them. I always felt a little liking and concern for Regine throughout the play. Michelle Monteith played the role in such a way that I seemed to always be afraid that she would end up being the victim of anything that would ever go wrong. What made me really enjoy the play and get very emerged is the fact everybody always knew where to go, there never seem to be a moment that somebody seemed a little confused on where they should go next, they all just flowed like a machine. A great example of this is at the very end of the play, when Oswald was laying on his mothers lap, and how she would get up and hold him as if he is her actual child.

The costumes in the play seemed to perfectly fit the time period the play was aiming for. Nobody stood out and seemed to be out of place, it was all similar styles. As well, the set fit the time period as well. The only real problem I had with the play was dealing with the set. Although it has amazing affects and the lighting and sound assets were amazing, I always felt wanting to see another location, such as the building on fire. I believe something as small as possible such a scene change changing something in the background, such as you seeing an actual burning building rather than just orange lights.. I always wanted to see somewhere else other than just one room since it would have enhanced the story that was being told.

            Overall, I feel like the play was a fantastic success. There were a few faults such as the setting, but these problems were either miniscule or could be easily solved with a simple fix. The plot was fantastic and exhilarating, the acting was top class, and the set although simple kept your attention. I was so entertained by the entire play, the only time I wasn't was during the twenty-minute intermission waiting for the next scene to start.

                Recently, the grade 10's of the SJK Drama class (including me) performed two poems for the Remembrance Day performance. One of the poems was Who's For the Game by Jessie Pope, and the other Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. I did have a fun time performing the two performances but I was extremely nervous that I'd mess up. I felt like the first poem was a little quite since everybody was still a little worried about messing up, but by the time we did the second performance the group seemed to be pretty much over it all and did fairly well. During the first performance when we were all huddles in a group I so badly just didn't want Lizzie to start talked. I kept telling myself that I'd be fine and that the years before did this, and I knew that it would be okay if I messed up, but I just couldn't stop being unbelievably nervous. After reading passages from letters, I felt quite a bit more comfortable, but I was still worried about messing up a line or movement during the part where we were "putting" on our helmets. Even though I'm still shivering about it, Overall it was a well done performance.