Personal Narrative: Voice Your Choice

"Unique New York, Unique New York, Unique New York, Unique New York." The children's choir at my temple was practicing vocal exercises to prepare for our upcoming Shabbat service, the first one that I would participate in. When that evening came, however, I forgot the words to Hatikvah and ran offstage in tears. My parents were right behind and ended up spending the end of the service comforting me.That night, I made the decision to quit choir before I had a chance to process what my failure meant. After that, I focused on activities that I already knew I was good at for the rest of elementary and middle school. Needless to say, none of these activities involved singing.

Last summer, however, I decided to branch out. Since I was at summer camp, I figured that any embarrassment would only last another week, until the summer was over. I was put in charge of creating and running a twenty minute segment of a program called "Voice Your Choice," which was about presidential elections. Two hundred high school campers would be participating in an activity about campaigning, I spent weeks designing and planning a phone banking simulation. In spite of hours upon hours of preparation, my section of "Voice Your Choice" was a complete disaster. Nobody remembered any of the pretend candidates’ political …show more content…
This year, I am taking a Stagecraft class at school, where we learn about set design and construct the sets for my high school's productions. I didn't know anything about set construction when I started the class, but I know that by the time we begin to work on the high school's major shows, I will, and this will be due in part to many failures in class. In addition, I've even led services at my temple. I've made many mistakes, even leaving out three pages of prayers once. Being onstage still doesn't feel completely natural to me, but with each service, I get better at