Romeo and Juliet Play Reflection

The ninth grade english class took on a challenge this monday morning. They had to memorize a section of the monologue said by either Romeo or Juliet during the Capulet Orchard scene and perform it in front of the whole class. I was Romeo, and being him has been a lot of fun. Somehow, it amuses me to see a guy with so much to say. Either way as fortune has it, my partner and I were selected to go first and the rest didn't went as well as I hoped. First of all, I couldn't stop giggling a bit as I recited my lines. My partner is a boy and it seemed kind of funny to me at that time that our roles should have been reversed. That was problem number 1. Problem number 2 was the fact that I wasn't very into my acting. Apparently, I still hadn't got the lines down to an art and the words could not just flow through me. I made hand gestures, but they were relatively small. Something else I felt that I could have improved on is to cooperate with my partner better before the performance. My partner and I didn't act like a couple, but like two strangers who had never seen each other ( and still hasn't) throughout the play. This part I would like to correct. In general, I felt this performance was a pretty rewarding experience. Performing, to me now, seemed less of a mental dread. Perhaps one day I could finally get out of my shell and act in a real play.