Day 151- Camp: The Mildly Less Awkward Second day (August 9)

After getting an idea of our personalities, our camp instructors took us out on a mini-field trip to help us crawl out of our shells of pure cowardice. We went to the little park near the place where camp was held. The little park was perfect, because it had a little performance gazebo as well as benches, a river and over 15 different trees.
In the park, they told us to rehearse the monologue we had gotten the previous day; the one that A Midsummer Night's Dream closes with. They told us to try and put different emphasis on each word in the sentence and try to make it have totally different meanings. So we did.
Next, they told us to take out our notebooks and create a character. Anyone we wanted. I already had a sort-of character I'd been trying to write a story about, so I used him. I called him Arrow, a magician from a different version of Earth who was sent to our world because his was supposed to be destroyed by the government. If I'm being honest, I was totally ripping David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth, except in that movie, he was an alien in search of water for his dying planet. By the end of the week, the only thing similar between Arrow and Thomas Jerome Newton were their accents and their hair.
As I will not remember these people in the future, I'm going to describe all the other characters I had the pleasure of acting alongside during the week:
Chelsea: Maureen, a 57-year-old momma bird who's son is getting married and she feels like he's still a little boy.
Emma: Susan, a 30-something soccer mom who is forcing soccer on her son so she can live her dream through him of making it to the olympics, which she can't do due to an injury several years back.
Taylor: Princess Alina, a 16-year-old descendant of a royal family of a country that no longer exists due to a spelling mistake. She is spoiled and acts like a princess, even though the country she is a princess of no longer exists.
Finn: Tyler, a 13-year-old wild boy who talks like Stitch and is constantly searching for his family.
After we had all explained our characters, we had an improv exercise called 'Park Bench', where characters come in, talk with whoever is sitting on the bench, then the person who was already there leaves and a new person comes in. It was kind of fun, but I'm not a good actress, and I'm afraid Arrow came across as a prim grammar school bloke.
Oh, well.

This is Thomas Jerome Newton.