Personal Narrative: Radio Acting

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All eyes were on me. I knew my reader’s theatre script by heart, but my confidence failed me as I turned around to face the audience. Lines came off as nervous as I felt throughout the entire performance. I stumbled through. I recall thinking that if my group didn’t make it to All-State I was the one to be blamed. I watched as the result of which groups that were moving on were posted. I scrolled through the list and didn’t see our group’s name. I had failed my whole group.
The next year I was put in radio broadcasting and ensemble acting. Since this was my second year doing speech my confidence began to grow. The list was being put up for who was moving on to All State, and I walked over there to go look at the list to find our radio broadcasting

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