In my entire high school career up until this point, the only extra curricular activity I participated in was the school band, and that was only in 9th grade for me. I thought everything else the school offered in terms of extra curricular activity wasn't for me. I can't sing for my life in the chorus, I'm not comfortable playing all of the sports this school offers, and all of the clubs don't appeal to me. Never in a thousand years did I ever think that the thing in high school that appealed to me the most would be theater.
Until this year, I thought that theater was for dramatic people who are weird and dedicate their time studying Shakespeare or other classical plays. Plus I wasn't very comfortable performing in front of people. It wasn't until my friends started saying that they needed to stay after school for theater rehearsals that I saw exactly what theater actually was. Rather that being a bunch of nerdy people doing lame plays on stage, theater was just friends having fun on stage doing interesting and intriguing performances that were some of the coolest things I've ever seen.
This was the first year I really started hanging out with these theater guys. I've always knew who they were, we've been going to the same school for 6 years now, but this was the first year that I really found out who they really were. Never in a million year did I think that these people, people I never knew were cool, people I thought were just normal other students, would be lifelong friends with me.
Although I'm not in the theater class at my school, I am involved with some other smaller theater projects happening at the school. Just this year, I participated in the talent show performing a skit, playing the piano, and starring in a commercial. Coming up in April is the Knight of One Acts which is a string of small performances with improve as a major portion of the event. I do plan to take theater next year and I've also talked to the theater teacher her about composing the music for the fall play next year. I'm really stoked about that and I can't wait to get working on that over the summer.
I can safely say that Theater has made me a different person than I was at the beginning of high school for me. Theater has given me an opportunity to experiment with my personality and the friends I've gained from it have been some of the most fun people I've ever met. It's also made me reconsider what I want to do with my life. For the longest time I wanted to go into computers. Theater has turned me more into a social person. I now have an interest in teaching and possibly being an actor. Overall, Theater has been the most influential thing in high school for me as a person and I can't wait to make people happy while performing.
