My First Drama Biog Blog By Laura Ann Rotin
To aspire to become someone you dearly look up to is an unreachable thought and a painful process…… well, so i have seen and therefor learnt.
So i have decided not to aspire but rather, take the lead….
A very tall and quite exuberant women in her early twenties enters the quad- trangle with a look of the new and unexpected in her eyes.She wears khaki green cargo pants and a pre-loved pink tee-shirt,and walks as though she is on a life saving mission, perhaps she was…. trying to save the youth that awaited her arrivel from the ever draining and painstakling long classes of math and sci..
My next vived memory, then begins with the four of my closest and troublesome friends, hanging out of the two story building window yelling nothing but hate filled taunts and names directed at her…. well she was new and that therefor put her straight into the ‘fresh meat” catagory…
Melissa Latham or “Mamma” as she was later called had saved me from a life of being led by the damaned and doomed… yeah, i was mean and resentful, but she saw past that and gave me a sense of pride a worthiness… she let me into a world were i could be expressive and crative without the sick feeling of getting something wrong..”Mamma”, shone a light into many different aspects of the performance world to me, not just the stage, lights and make-up. She also showed me that as a teacher you could also be human and show emotion, concern and feeling.
One day “Mamma” decided to take a handful of students (me included) and show them her place of tertiary tuiton….Deakin Uni… i was in awe…so excited and so ready…From that day i vowed to be as inspirational as she had been to me… if i could touch one students life then i would be worthy to be called a student of Melissa ‘Mamma” Lathem.
My last cousre at V.U.T enabled me to become more then just a preformer, rather a performance maker… i adore the fact that i can quite confendlty put on a performance with meaning along with a dash of crativity.. i am not that grat with many things this academic life has to offer but with the few i am, i plan on doing well and with every passionate bone in my body