Workshop Time
                    Thursday, the20th of September 2018


          After finishing my Pilates class, I come in 034 and I see two cameras and stage property. We didn’t know what was going on, but we started to find out while the level 2 and year 2 students came in the room. With Rob, there was a woman that presented herself, but whose name I am afraid I forgot and told us that she was coming from France. The reason she was here is because she needs our help for one of her exams in acting’s domain.
          Rob explained to us what kind of improvisation we had to do, using the stage property available. We combined the exercises; sometimes, there was just one person telling a story using objects, sometimes there were two persons and when a third person came in, one person had to find a reason to leave, sometimes there were just two persons and sometimes as many as we wanted.
          Being in a room with the level 2 and year 2 students was quite interesting. I was able to observe the difference between each person's way of approaching things. It didn’t matter what year or level we were studying, we had to work together.
          So, we got a table full of objects and two cameras and it was the first time we were filmed in this college as a group.

             Even though the exercises weren't different from what we usually do, practice is the key, so every time we get to practice we grow, even if we can't notice it at the moment. 

The most interesting thing for me was that at the end; Rob told me, Elena and Sebastian to stay a little bit more. I didn’t know why, but I was supposing. And I was right: we had to improvise in our native language, me and Elena in Romanian, together and Sebastian in Polish . I wasn't expecting to do that, but I enjoyed it. I and Elena took as objects the flower pot and two big paint brushes. In our improvisation, Elena was my little sister and the action is happening in the morning. She was still asleep, but being her birthday I wake her up and I give her this flower pot as a gift. While we are speaking, I notice she is trying to hide something behind her and when I ask her, she won’t let me see it. Insisting, I find out that she was hiding her two phones and I immediately realize that she was playing all night, even though she was not allowed to. Keeping in mind that is her birthday, I just take away the phones without scolding her. 

      After our improvisation, Sebastian told a story about an object in Polish, all by himself. I noticed that the sound of our languages, Romanian and Polish is not so different.

              Now, coming back to our group improvisation, the thing that I would improve is the energy we had to give for those exercises, because we all got a little bit tired and couldn't give our best. Also,  being a group so big, not everyone managed to get over his/her fears and some of us weren’t very involved. Yet, Rob solicited each one of us to be a part of this.