phenomenal

Last night we finally presented our drama for Professional Communication and Presentation Class. After a whole month of preparations, it's finally done and over with. All four classes of foundation had to present a drama based on a classic that our lecturer gave during class.

It's been a crazy week though as our drama night drew closer. We've been practicing til late night and preparing at every free time we had...

Our drama was based on the classic Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I think when we first had to read the four classics, YGB was the longest and most wordy story. I read up the other stories but didn't have any interest in finishing up YGB. This was the same with most other people; even one of the english lecturers admitted it too:P

The story is set in Salem Village (i think during the 1600s). The time whereby people thought that if you practiced a religion other than Christianity, you are following the footsteps of the devil. Plus the witch hunt and all that...
Basically, this man called Young Goodman Brown heard about The Devil and was so curious to meet him. Brown reluctantly leaves his darling good wife Faith and then meets the Devil in the woods. He resists the Devil but throughout his journey in the woods, he finds out that the people he thought were good (like the woman who taught him about Christianity, the Deacon, the Minister), were found to be following the Devil too! And he also saw his wife Faith during the devil worshiping ritual. And when he shouts to Faith to "resist the wicked one", he blacks out... He wakes up and wonders if everything was a dream or if it was real...He was plagued with thoughts of the ritual... and he lived his life in doubt, never trusting anyone until his last moment in life...

It sounds so tragic when we first read about it.. And it still is a tragic story... But I think we presented it up pretty well:)

And I think the most important things is the process to finish up this play. I mean, all the hardwork and cooperation everyone put in to do all this. It's always such a heartfelt success trying to complete something and having to go through so many obstacles and hardships to reach that goal. We had problems, we had arguments, we had complications, we had sleepless nights. All the drama you can find without having to present one:P

But in the end, it turned out spectacularly phenomenal. After the play, everyone was all smiles and congratulating and laughing and like "Yes! It's finally over!" It's the end of the week, the end of the drama... finally I can breathe:)

until the 19th that is. Lol.