Personal Narrative: My Haunted House Experience

Looking back to the memories I have gained during my high school years, one event stood out from those memories. That memory was acting in a haunted house. It was a fundraising event for my graduating class in high school last year. My first haunted house experience taught me how enjoyable it can be. The haunted house was located in my high school, Okkodo. It was before Halloween of last year. We had three day to practice before our actual haunted house. The haunted house was for two nights. The first night was after school on October 24, 2014, we had to set up, get into our costumes, make-up, characters, and our places in the haunted house. Before the haunted house began, I felt nervous. After one of my friends cheered me on, I felt quite relieved and excited. When it started, I went into character. I was playing Toshiro, the son of The Grudge. I remember that during the practices and briefing that we are not allowed to make conversations or touch the people going inside the haunted house. It was my first time scaring other people. My job was to appear when they were near my area. I made angry cat sounds. I appeared at the back of them, in front of them, and crawled from below. The reaction that those people gave made me feel good about my acting to scare them. Those people were begging not to go near them, others were …show more content…
Acting is not as easy as it seems. I never acted in front of other people before. We were helped by the Speech and Drama teacher in our school for this haunted house. All of us who acted in the haunted house put a lot of our time and effort. Through this event, I had a chance to interact with other schoolmates. I learned that it takes a lot of effort to make something successful. All of the actors had to cooperate with one another like what we did that time. It was a tiring experience, but we enjoyed it. It was a memory that we created together as a