It's been a long way!

Last week I started my last year’s journey at Cheshire Academy, when I look back in time I couldn’t help myself to say:” Wow, It’s been a long way!” I am now on my senior way to college which kind freaked my out at last summer, but now all I can feel is enjoying this journey, instead of being worried about the ending. I cannot how many times I have taken this acting class with Guarino. However, I always feel it’s the first time I am taking this class because I am changing and my point of view is changing. Today, as an actor I have accomplished so many things, and all I want is keep challenging and improve more and more.

I was the student who didn’t know what is monologue; I was the student who didn’t know theater at all; I was also the student who was too scared to speak. However, now I am taking the lead role in my school’s fall production The Dead. When I saw the cast list, I told myself that:” John you cannot screw up this time, and you better do your best!”. I confess that I wanted this opportunity so much, and I was also so worried that I might mass this up. Anyway, this week during acting class, I found another new thing. I thought my character development can be just general things and emotions. However, I was so wrong because the emotion and characteristic I gave to the character is so not real! Why it’s not real because our characteristics and emotions are from what we experienced which are all our memories without memory we are just robots reading lines with different tones. When Ms. Guarino asked me to write down character’s story, at that moment in my head all the picture and scene about this character were keeping appearing in my head. That was the moment I knew that why it was so hard to be in the character!

I am Mr. Darling, Curly, Trump, Mr. Dykeman, Gabriel and John Jiang. What makes these characters different was the story they have and memories they carried inside! They can be looking the same but audience can tell they are all different characters. I believe that this year I will finish with all great memories and make John Jiang this character even better!