Drama Tingz

 Class this week was about the many ways one could be expressed through art. We started off with writing therapy and ended with drawing therapy. During the writing therapy, I discussed the troubles I had to go through while growing up. I felt left out of the family because I wasn't as lady-like as I could have been, therefore I was often compared to my cousin who was. I constantly worried if I was doing anything right, and when I was my family would ask, "Why can't you be more like Maya." This of course dropped my self-esteem for a really long time until I realized that I wasn't like Maya cause I wasn't Maya. Lol. 

During the drama portion of the class, we had to act out courage and fear. I volunteered to play the role of Alaina, she faced problems with knowing which direction to go in when it came to school. She talked about how she changed majors and still wasn't sure if it was good for her. She had to deal with those inner thoughts that told her she wasn't good enough, as well as the thoughts that told her she was. I felt deeply connected to this since I had this same situation, though I've had three different majors since coming to college. 

In the reading, it stated, "Activities such as drawing, drumming, creative movement, and play permit individuals of all ages to express their thoughts and feelings in a manner that is different than strictly verbal means and have unique properties as an intervention" I totally felt like this described true things. I wasn't really sure how to express myself through just words, and often times it's hard to clearly state what I going on just by your words. Yet, once we acted out Alaina's situation we as a class was able to understand fully why both the components of fear and courage are needed.