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 My name is Ryan Kim and I'm a junior in Cheshire Academy. I had an experience of taking an acting class back in Korea. The reason why I started learning acting was to improve my self confidence. I used to wanted to be a singer 3 years ago, but I always got extremely nervous when I appeared on the stage. At that time, I heard a lot about an acting class from my best friend which was taking an acting class and wanted to be an actor. And, I thought the activities that students do in the acting class might help my self confidence problem. Fortunately, it was of huge benefit to the problem and I had the happiest three months in my life with a great teacher in the beginning of the course and I fell in love with acting. Eventually, I had no choice but giving up everything because of my back problem which was bothering me for past 2 years. So, I'm so glad about joining musical in Cheshire Academy and having a chance to learn acting again.

 

 Although I'm truly happy and excited, I'm still nervous about taking this class because there will be quite a few challenging parts for me. Memorizing the lines will be one of the most challenging part. Since English is my second language, it's hard to speak like a native American. I don't have to care about my accent, pronunciation, speed, or the way how I talk when I'm talking in general, but I need to think about all those things when I speak the lines unless my role is an Asian guy. However, I assumed that my speaking skills will improve a lot after I complete those memorizing lines. Also, the other thing which is going to be really challenging is Ms. Guarino's 500 words blog essay for every week. I struggled so badly in the first semester of my English class all because of the Ms. Guarino's blog assignment. I realized that I need to improve my writing skills and every single teacher that I asked the question "how can I improve my writing skills?" responded "The more you write, you will get better and faster." So, I decided to take the acting class which is Ms. Guarino's instead of the public speaking class that I originally chose.

  

 I have three specific things that I want to learn in this class: monologue, dialogue, and improvising. All three of them might look similar because they are all about speaking lines. Firstly, in my opinion, monlogue requires the most basic skills for actors and is the hardest one to act because only one actor leads everything by their voice and some of facial expression and body language. Secondly, dialogue is the most part that occupies and leads the story and easiest way to describe the story in most of plays, movies, or musicals. Lastly, I am interested in improvising because I think it shows lots of emotions how I am and how I make my decisions. Also, It will help my speaking skills in general becasue it requires adaptation to circumstances.