What did you act as when you performed in the “Hitchhiker” game?

I acted like a psychopath with Parkinson. And I was always jumping when I sat in the car. When I began to speak, I jumped more terribly. And it looked like I was riding a huge house and it was running so fast so that I was bumping so hard.

Why did you act that way?

The reason why I acted like that is because that I thought it would be very hard for the driver to act if they had to copy other two people’s action as the same time. And of course, that would be absolutely very funny if they really did act it out. Eventually, 3 people did that and everybody was laughing. That’s what I want!

How did you feel?

Obviously, that was a very funny game. I felt very happy and excited. I laughed all the time. Every time someone new got in the car with some new movements, everyone boost into laughter. It was like watching psychopaths in the hospital, and every passenger in the car was an extremely horribly funny psychopaths. When I was on the stage-in the car, I actually felt a little bit embraced and nerves since I had to do something really silly and I really didn’t know what to do at the very beginning.

But when I started to jump from my chair, and every body boosted into laughter, there was nothing to afraid any more. It was just a little game! And all I need to do was to enjoy it.

How can you apply improvisation to your acting?

As far as I concern, two of the most important things about improvisation are that I need to think quickly and I need to be very creative as well because audience all like interesting acting and they definitely don’t want to wait for a long time until I come up with something that is actually really boring. Therefore, to apply improvisation, I think I can prepare some good and creative ideas, which can fit many situations. And that won’t take a long time. Moreover, I can practice to improve and analyze other people’s acting to find methods, which can help me apply improvisation.

What did you like about the debate unit? Dislike? Learn?

Just like what I have written down in my first reflection of this debate unit, I really like debates. Since debate is a type of discussion and communication, we can exchange our ideas, opinions, perspectives, etc. with each other. During the debate, we can actually learn many new knowledge from others who against with. It’s also a chance to improve my oral English and public speaking skills. That’s why and what I like debate.

As we all know that every debate has its winner and loser, no one can deny that. And that’s the part, which I highly dislike. I really don’t want to be the one who lose the battle because I think that I have the ability to convince people and I believe myself. But I lost 2 debates during the entire competition. That sometimes makes me mad.

Also from losing debates, I learnt how to control myself when I was mad about this.

During the preparation, I received plenty of totally new information. For instance, I knew what are communism and democracy when I was debating and searching information about them. Information can expand our horizon. That’s actually very good for us.

Moreover, I learnt how to search appropriate statistics and data from appropriate websites. And those statistics can strongly backup one’s side. However, it can easily become rival’s tool if the statistics are incorrect.

In brief, I think debate is more interesting than speech unit!




What are you looking forward to in the acting unit?

As I just had my first class of acting unit, I really like acting unit because translated Gibberish is really funny!! Sometimes people play tricks on others with that and that’s sort of annoying people though.

I remember another game called ‘ Honey I love you’ and that’s also very interesting. I really hope that we can have more games like those during the acting unit. Also, I guess we may have little drama in this unit and I hope I can do well with that.

Mr. Manno told us that acting could help us improve our public speaking skills since we need to be devil advocacy sometimes in a debate, and good acting skills can help us with that.

I hope that after this unit, my public speaking skills can become better and I can control myself better during a speech or a debate.

As a result, I guess that acting unit will full of fun!

We had our final debate on Monday! WOW!

The exciting debate is between Team Mother( Jemie, Billy, Crystal, and Amy) and Team Michael Jackson( Michael, Judith, and Grace). The debate topic is about which one is better, democracy or communism.

Team Mother supported democracy while Team Michael Jackson was on communism’s side.

Since communism is just an ideal society ideology, Team Mother thought that it was meaningless to have this debate actually. However, Team Michael Jackson strongly disagreed with this opinion as they thought that we are debating about its benefits, which had nothing to do with if it was unachievable.

Moreover, from Team Mother’s perspective, democracy had a longer history and it was now the major type of government all over the world. Every citizen leads democracy. People can be freer. But Team Michael Jackson thought that in a communism society, people would be treated more fairly and equally. People would gain things if they need and they would have the same amount of work.

To against that, Team Mother put out the opinion, which is about human nature. People are selfish; people are jealous; people have emotions. Communism wouldn’t become reality unless people stopped against each other any more. If we can really do that, then it would be meaningless to have this debate.

In brief, it was really interesting and congratulations to Team Michael Jackson for wining the Master Debaters prize. lol

Our team Team Mother( Billy, Crystal, Jemie and Amy) had a debate with Anonymous Team (Yuki, Hugo and Gene) about the topic ‘Should uniform be allowed in school.’ Our team is on the negative side, which was against Anonymous Team.

Our team thought that wearing uniform would kill students’ creativity because uniforms are the same and ugly style. And it would forbid students’ sense of art and fashion. They cannot have their own style of wearing clothes.

From Anonymous Team’s perspective, if students wear casual clothes, they may show off, since students can well fancy clothes. But our team thought that wearing uniform still could allow students to show off by their shoes, necklace, earring and even their hairstyle. Anonymous Team also agreed that wearing uniform is one way to show the school culture and can be easy for teachers to recognize and organize.

Michael Jackson Team had a debate about ‘ overpopulation is good.’  with Which Team (Sy, Alan, Kelly and Elsie). Michael Jackson supported that overpopulation is totally bad, because if there are too many people, our mother planet will be destroyed. There will be lack of every resource because there are too many people using the limited resources. And more pollution is going to emerge since the increasing of the population. There’s not going to be enough food to feed everyone and actually the food is not enough for everyone nowadays. Also, if there won’t be enough employment for everyone, then many people will have to stay home and that will give not only their parents but also the government pressure to feed them.

Which Team thought overpopulation is a good phenomenon because if there are more people, the chance of having geniuses will increase. Then the world can develop faster and better. Everyone want to have more Einsteins and Da Vincis in this world!

Which Team (Sy, Alan, Elsie and Kelly) and Michael Jackson Team (Michael, Judith and Grace) debated on the topic of ' Chinese education is better than American education.' Which Team is on the affirmative side and Michael Jackson Team opposes this opinion.