Personal Narrative Essay

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Since I’m a child I’ve always been curious, trying to learn new things and always looking out for what thrives me to improve. Growing up I tried soccer, percussion, choir, swimming, atlethism, cooking, drawing, but nothing was good or big enough to inspire me to be better. At some point I even thought that such thing didn’t exist for me, until my freshman year in high school, when I got invited to participate in the highschool Theater Club. I was surprised of how fit and comfortable I felt on the stage, living enterely different roles and feeling fullfiment for the first time in my entire life. Due to bullying, I had to leave that highschool, but I already know what I was looking forward to do with all my heart. Luckily, the theater group …show more content…
From all the different acting methods, the group focused itself enterily on Stanislavski, since our director was a Russian GITIS graduate. Our space, as we called it, became a sanctuary where nothing mattered except us and acting. We could appreciate the human nature because each class we would give everything on the stage. My instructor was always encouraging me to get out of the country and study theater. My parent’s told me that they were going to support me if I decided to study theater and, even if I did’t, they were going to help me study abroad. After a career crisis, which I was lucky enough to experience when I was 17, I decided that theater was part of my life which I couldn’t live without it, but I was not going to be able to live from it. When I started studying here, away from home, my friends and the group, I realized that I had to keep in touch with my talent, or I will go insane by missing that vital part of myself. As an international student, money has become the judge of what I can and cannot do. On my first semester I was in contact with theater from an external point of view, which inspired me to improve and study the method on my

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