Well, for those of you who checked my post in the hopeful thread you read that I enjoyed my drama class, now here's a little story on why I enjoyed it so much.
Today we went into a couple of games, one was something called Taxi. In this game there would be four chairs, and a line of people. Four people would occupy the chairs, and whoever sat in the "driver's seat", was the driver, all others in the taxi (which is just the set of four chairs.) were considered hitch-hikers.
In this game the driver would act a certain way and talk a certain way, all the other passengers of the car would have to act the same way, while the driver comes up with a conversation. After a while, the driver is supposed to say, "Oh. A hitch-hiker, I'll pick him up." or something similar. When that happens the driver gets out of the "car" and leaves while a new person comes in through the backseats. When that happens, they all move up a seat and have to act a new way. Well, there had been a series of weird-awesome things happening in this game, but, I think all of the students laughed the hardest when I was in the backseat, and a girl is in the driver seat, acting like one of those stereotypical hyperactive girls that always blurts something like "Omigosh!" or something like that throughout every sentence. So she has to ask me, "Like, what's your name?!". I respond, in probably the oddest way "My name is like, Mason. Omigosh!" Laughter from all over the theater room ensued from quiet a while. I didn't mind it, I had way too much fun to think about anything else.
When I actually get up to the driver's seat, I decide to give a slow and low-pitched voice. It was like a slow-action scene thing. The funny thing was, my teacher was sitting in the back, jumped up and yelled "Look out!!" So slam the pretend brakes (No one seemed to notice I slammed too fast for my act.) and the supposed car stops. My teacher does a bit in which he was flying to the front of the car in slow-motion, breaks through the pretend windshield and falls to the ground. It was an awesome moment. Then I decide to say "Hey, a hitch-hiker, I'll pick him up." and my act stops.
There was one more game as well. This was much like Taxi, but focused on only two people. My teacher set up some chairs to be like a counter of a store. One person starts out behind the counter, and it's all up to the two people to pretty much decide what the store was. When the customer person comes in, he'll move a certain way and talk a certain way, the person behind the counter has to act the same way. There were a lot of great acts. When it comes down to me, I hold both of my shoulders up and put my hands in my pockets as I walked briskly to the counter, I said in a Sid the Sloth voice (If you don't know what that is, watch Ice Age.) "You got any cigarettes?" The guy behind the counter can't even seem to mimic me very well and couldn't hold back laughter. He asks me what I said and I reply in the exact same way "Do ya have any cigarettes?" After that, we couldn't build much off the conversation, since we were both struggling to keep a straight face.
I can't say that I've ever enjoyed a class this much.
