Learn to LAUGH!!!!

WOW!!! I can not believe that the school year is almost over. This year has gone by real fast. I have learned over the years(that makes me sound old, which I am not( no offense to anybody)) that the older you do get, the faster time flies. Ha HA! Like time really flies. I meant, the faster time goes by.

Well, I am not going to stress myself out over the future. Let's concern ourselves with the present. In school I am in a speech class( which is basically a theatre class). The past two or three weeks we have been working on Duets. Oooooh Duets. Everyone in the class got a partner. I got a good partner, but you could say that she didn't receive the same. I tend to play more than work sometimes and I think I got on her nerves allot. She is just too nice and decided she would put up with me.

There were about 17 groups in my class. Each group received a different script. My partner and I got a boring one. It was called "He's Mine". Girl thinks boy is cute. Boy meets girl. Girl decides she does not like the boy. Friend of girl says they should hang out anyway. Girl suffers and friend is entertained. How typical.

We practiced and practiced. These duets are about 10 min. long, so it was a little of a struggle. My lines basically repeated themselves all of the time. Because of that, there were a few lines that I got mixed up all of the time. Then ( thanks to all of that practice) i finally remembered the lines. Now all I had to do was perform it in front of the class.......for a grade. I was determined to not forget any lines and do great.

Our teacher films the duets so we can watch them ourselves later. The day came to perform and we were ready. The camera was recording and we were performing. Everything was going great. Then I forget my lines.......

Let's skip ahead for a moment. My partner and I got a 100 on this performance. Now you ask, "How? You forgot your lines and it is 2 points taken off each time you forget them." Then I say," Yes it is true and I forgot my lines a total 3 times. I used the art of add libbing(I do not know how to spell that)."

Now back to the performance. Then........ I forgot my lines! I had already come up with some back up lines in case something like this was to occur. So, to the audience I said," That boy is so cute, he has took the words right out of me." The class starts to laugh knowing that those words were not the ones i was planning to come out of my mouth. This gives me a moment to make up something.

As you can tell from the grade, I did not give up and I did move the performance along. I remembered the rest of my lines and ended with the whole class laughing. The camera did not stop filming once. I pursued what I had planned to do. I even turned a boring script into an exciting one.

I soon learned that other speech classes got to watch my hysterical performance. People were walking up to me telling that they saw it and what their favorite part was. We would start to laugh at the funny memory.

I am going to hold on to this memory forever. Why? you ask. Because it taught me to laugh at myself. That I can't be perfect and that (like every other human being) I will make mistakes. I took that mistake and made it a funny. Not to mention that I had so much fun doing it!