Name: Alice
Student no: 492420642
Date: 2004/12/3
English composition (minor)
Title: My First Performance
One day, when I was in junior three, my Chinese teacher asked me to attend a poetry reciting competition. As I was attracted by the extra marks for my attending the competition, I agreed with my teacher of attending the competition. Before the competition, I needed to practice many times. It was really a hard work because I didn’t have any experience of performance before; it was a big trouble for me the rookie, I found that it was a great knowledge in recitation: the pronunciation, the gestures, and the posture when you are giving out a recitation, and so on. But the biggest problem was I am very easy to burst into laugh. When I rehearsed in my classroom, I couldn’t keep laughing. I had made my efforts to inhibit myself not laughing, and I needed to try harder when I was practicing. After 4 weeks, the day of poetry reciting competition came.
That morning was the most exciting day I ever had. Before getting on the stage, the students needed to sit aside and wait. As there were some students performing prior to me, I became worried and anxious. Because they all had the experiences of performing for several or many times, and I was only a rookie, I felt very nervous and realized that my hands were trembling. And then, it was my turn to get on the stage and give out a performance.
As I stepped on the stage, I was trembling. But actually I seemed to be calm and bowed to the audience, and started my performance… through the time I was staring at the wall at the end of the hall, not facing the audience. I recited out all the words and made the gestures that I remembered, later I couldn’t remember what I was thinking or doing at that time. Finally the performance was finished. And I realized that I didn’t busted into laugh, I felt relax.
Later, my classmate told me that I had said a wrong word, but I didn’t care because the competition was over. Later, many schoolmates recognized me for they had seen my performance, I felt very shy because I don’t want to so conspicuous and I was embarrassed for a period of time. By now, I sometimes memorize that, it was such an interesting experience. Because I am a shy and coward person, I feel uneasy when I get along with, or face to many people. It was my first time standing on the stage, only myself, facing a lot of people and reciting the poetry. I was encouraged by all of my friends so that I could do my best. But that didn’t made any change in my character, I am still very shy, I can pretend to be very conversational, enthusiasm in social in order to hide my coyness and agitation of getting along with people. I was glad that I had done variety of things during my school life. During the practice, I made friends with some senior schoolmates and I was happy to practice with them; and I had learned a little knowledge of recitation. Those were the most valuable things I got during this recitation.
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