This week, we continued with mask work. We started out in small impromptu groups that soon grew bigger and bigger as people joined in. Ms. Ashley gave a group of about 5 students a scenario to act out. As they played their roles, others joined in one by one. This time, though, we were able to speak, but only in gibberish.
In my group, we started out with a robbery and police coming to investigate the scene. I came in with backup help after the police officers had been shot and performed first aid on the wounded. But I couldn't save my 'colleague'. While I was doing that, the criminal we had 'shot' earlier had gotten back up, now a zombie. The zombie came to bite and attack me, turning me into a zombie. At first, I was so confused! Then I looked around to see that the others were also walking around like zombies. So I became a zombie and it was actually a lot of fun. We all slumped around the class, looking for any 'living humans' who came in, trying to save their friends. We ended up turning everyone into zombies, like the end of the world. Things got really heated between some of the boys who were 'fighting' each other. At that point, we kind of stepped back from our own actions and focused on them.
This exercise was so fun because we had started out with a scene completely different than what we ended up with. I think improvise is fun not because you make up what you do on the spot, but because that impromptu acting can lead into any direction; we went from a robbery to the apocalypse. It's our time to let our imagination run loose and act what comes first into mind.
Another exercise we did was child play. Ms. Ashley turned on nursery songs from a British children's show on the SMART Board and we became babies and toddlers between 2-5 years old. We had toys and other props to play with. This was super interesting and really fun to do! I got to just be a little kid and have no worries. It was so simple and easy. What I see the little kids do at church, I mimicked in class. I guess it was a little difficult trying to figure out exactly how little kids act at a certain age; some people over or underestimated the age they wanted to act out. I started out at 2 years old but near the end, i was more like 4 years old, the way I was acting. At one point, we realized where the sound was coming form and crowded the SMART Board, wanting to know what it was. Overall, I had a lot of fun with these two exercises and they helped to step out of my comfort zone with these masks.
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