“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

To the last syllable of recorded time.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out out brief candle.”

Memorize memorize memorize! :)

Today we had a really fun warmup in theater class. We played sword and shield and had to use our two fingers to tap our friend. Three taps equals a death and we had to be dramatic about the pain when we got hit and also when we “died”. I found this exercise to be really fun cause we were dodging and striking and we were out of breath really fast. I also had a good time laughing with my friends and pretending to “die”.

For next exercise, Ms Chan asked us to lie down on the floor to practice our breathing again. We did breathing in counts of ten, five, three and one. We learnt how to use our diagphram to inhale and exhale. The top part of my stomach hurt a little and Ms Chan said it was good and that was how people can get abs. At first, I found it really hard to inhale and exhale using my diagphram properly as I usually breathed with my nose. After some practice, I think I have the hang of it.

Then we had to recite Life's Brief Candle using the breathing method that we learnt in counts of ten. At first we all sat in a circle and read the script. Then Ms Chan told us to find a space in the room, and she had us individually recite a few lines from the Shakespeare poem. When my name was called out, I was quite nervous and although I had the script memorized, I used the paper just in case I forgot.

Ms Chan told me that I sway a little to the left and to the right when I recited the poem, due to nervousness. I never realised this before and she told me to relax and ground my voice cause if my body was in motion, it was difficult to centralize my voice. I tried again and I believe it sounded much better as my voice was coming from my stomach instead of my throat or face. She also mentioned to my classmates to throw our voice and not speak to the paper.