My favourite project

 

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I’m talking about my best project that I’ve been part of, which isn’t an IT project. It’s a play that we did in my old upper secondary school in ninth grade, and I was playing one of the two main characters. Usually those plays in schools haven’t been that complex or long, instead they were mostly just comedies or people goofing around on the stage but ours was on a different level. Our play was called “Musta aurinko nousee” (The black sun rises) which also happens to share the same name as a popular Finnish song. It told a story about a group of teenagers whose classmate died tragically and their ways to cope with it.

 

I was working with my drama group. We did short plays or skits in the past, but this was our final project before graduating. We started practicing approximately three months before the main event. Two hours a week and our homework was to practise our lines. After getting one of the leading roles, I realised what I got myself into. I had so many different lines and scenes where I needed to be part of. On top of that I even had to sing in front of everyone. Yes, you heard me right. I was already tense and stressed about remembering the lines, so my first reaction wasn’t excitement. Then I gave it some time and after countless practises I was confident enough to sing. Singing was the most difficult task for sure. At the main event there were so many people in the audience, and we were super nervous, but we absolutely nailed it.

 

I was so proud of myself but also for our group. Our performance was so touching that even some of the teachers were crying after the end. The feedback was also extremely positive. Those comments and reactions made it worthwhile. The fact that people were crying came out of the blue for me, so I was even more surprised and proud of us. I for real thought of becoming an actor for a moment. I learned a lot from the project. I overcame my fear of singing in front of everyone, understood more about plays and the project of making it and most importantly I learned how to act.

 

Then back to my English learning goals, which are proceeding nicely. I’ve been able to stick with my plan of how to improve my vocabulary. I’ve tried new learning techniques as well. For example, I have played a lot of Quizlet and recently I started a video game where I have already encountered tons of new words. In the future I could perhaps start reading an English book since I haven’t read a book in a while, and I see it as an important but fun challenge. That was all for today so thank you for reading this far and I’ll be back with a new blog soon.