A Student Takes a Stand

My group's name was changed a few times, but finally we are "The Reflective Ponderers". Every group was assigned a discrimination topic to do a skit and then we had to act following it in class. Our topic was Bullying and the skit was called "A Student Takes a Stand". We decided to do our skit based on bullying against latinos in high school. We thought we wouldn't have any trouble writing the skit, but it wasn't easy at all. After some changes trying to make it better, we finally were proud of what we had done and we had finished writing the skit. The topic was presented through a boy who bullied a kid for being latino and even said he was gay. The latino kid never bothered anyone and was a good boy. We learn that the bully of the story was actually bullied by his dad, and the latino kid helped him when he learned about this. In the end, the bully realized he didn't have to be a jerk and tried to be better with others.

Acting was the greatest part of this activity. I don't like to act and I'm not good at it, but we all had fun doing it and watching the other groups. I think all the groups did a great job on their skits and they were all original. Something that I loved about working on this and watching the other group's performances was that they were all about discrimination and we all took it seriously. We're all conscious of the problems of discrimination we face today in the world and this activity made us realize it even more.

We had to present our skits in a conference in the university as part of our grades. I had never done anything like this in my life. When the professor told us we had to do this, I got really nervous. I'm a little shy and I'm really not good at acting or even talking in front of people. When we did it, I realized it wasn't a big deal, it was actually a good experience and not everyone can say they have done something like this. It was a great opportunity to have the chance to show other students what we had worked on and to show them how we face discrimination every day. I can say that The Reflective Ponderers had a lot of fun working together on this skit and acting it. This are the memories we will never forget of our time in the university.