 The moment I stepped on that stage in the auditorium, I can say that my life changed. This class has helped me to be free, to feel free about life. The most exciting thing about the class is getting on stage and performing depending on someone, someone depending on you and that's what makes us together like one family. The class is a theater arts class and it is for English language learners. We have a full range of kids from students who don't speak any English at all and have just arrived in this country, right up to students who have exited the ESOL program and are preparing to graduate. This provides a safe space for students, particularly the newer students who are still learning the English to practice their speaking. Have you no weights, no manner? If there's no honesty for place, people are timing you? I'm a handle and I'm an actor, I'm a performer. I'm not much of an athletic person but I sure have a big heart for the performing arts. With music the feelings come out, with literature my thoughts come out and with acting my energy comes out. She is your niece, but if you cannot quit your perverse ways you'll have to beat you for a well. Look, you're just a servant. Before I started the class I wasn't that able to talk fluently and most of my words would tangle up and I would sound like I was speaking gibberish. After I enrolled in the class I was able to talk more fluently and to express myself better. This class helped me to do what I am doing right now, to not be afraid, to talk to a camera or a real person. What we found is students go on to have lots of fun and actually discover a whole other side of themselves and it can really bring them out of their shell and allow them to participate in high school in the United States on a much fuller level. I felt like I was a kid living in a shadow or I felt like a shadow but now I can be myself, I can talk to people, I can express myself. I'm much more comfortable with myself. Every single time we have a play or every single time we have something in class I get to see a new part of me, a part that I know that I could utilize. You see a whole other student come out sometimes when they come up on stage to do a monologue from Shakespeare. If you can do Shakespeare you can do anything. I can be self secure, I can get out there and do whatever I want. I felt amazing when I was on that stage and the connection I had with the audience just told me that this is what I'm supposed to do, this is my call.