ahka | My Acting Debut

The show is over, finally… It went well, I almost didn’t mess it up. Almost, because I switched my comments during a part where boys put on tutu skirts and one of the boys missed his lines and got very upset, he even didn’t want to act in the next show because of this. Of course, we talked him into acting in the 2^nd show and I made sure that I say everything in the order kids rehearsed it.

I thought that the first show went a little bit better then the 2^nd one. After the 1^st one I was ready to be done. Kids were great but for the 2^nd show they all were tired and not as loud as during the first one.

It was quite an experience for me!!!

I don’t think I would ever agree to act in a live play, maybe act for a movie but not live on stage in front of the live audience. I was too stressed not to go blank again and reviewed my scene lines before each scene. I am not an actress to improvise like the 2 real actors did. Thanks to them for keeping the play up.

I was pleasantly surprised to know that there were people who came to see the show just because I was in it that I would not expect to come. I did not expect my co-worker and her family, my neighbor and her family, and Boris’ relatives.

I was happy to see my two girlfriends come one with her son and one with her friend; my parents with their friends made it to the show at 4pm. My parents were out of town and drove home in the afternoon. Of course, Boris and Mishka were there too and Mishka enjoyed some funny parts of the play, he even acted them out afterwards. Mishelka stayed with her grandparents and didn’t cry for mommy.

Thanks to my in-laws for watching the kids almost every Sunday in May and yesterday.

I promised that I will spend more time with kids from now on, There are no more rehearsals and I think there are no more dance teaching during summer or if there will be, it will be on Friday mornings at the Harmony Summer Camp.