On the Spot

As we will be departing for break with the end of today, our teacher decided to just spend the shortened class period working through some acting activities. Improvisation, though, isn't really my forte as I tend to get brain farts quite easily. Surprisingly, though, I was able not only to perform but get a few laughs here and there. With 60 seconds to work out anything we wanted, most of us just spend the time sitting in our seats and working through some points that we wanted to mention in our skit. There wasn't really time to think of the entire scene, but for the most part you had time to develop a plot line. With the plot line of a door-to-door salesman, I decided to sell my younger sister so I could buy a new game. Our skits were really only to be a minute long, but I lost of my train of thought during the performance and ended up going over time. The next skit had to do with accepting an award for something. The last skit I thought was the best as we pretended to be first or second graders at show and tell. I first started with telling the class that I wanted to bring my little brother because he had something "down there" that was different from all us girls. Just as I was about to say what it was, I purposefully caught myself and went on to show my pet rock, Larry. Afterwards, we went on to improv a story where our teacher acted as the conductor, pointing to each student to finish where the last person had left off. The store was incredibly bizarre and a bit incoherent, but quite hilarious. If there can be anything to be learned from our day of improv, it is that all of us need to work on staying in character. When it got just too funny, we all broke out in laughter. We were literally rolling on the floor laughing.