Now our class has been working on our final project for a week. In this week, I’ve made a lot of progress on my final project. I’ve been thinking a lot on how to make it better. My final project is that I am going to present a very sad and dramatic poem.

   First, of course I have to work on the memorization of the poem. The poem is chose is called the “Sweet Agony”. It is pretty long, so it took me a little while to try to memorize it. After working on it during class time, now I think I am good with most of my lines. I think I just have to make sure I won’t forget anything when I am performing. After I am done with memorization, I have to work on adding emotions into my performance, which is a pretty difficult part for me, bacause I have to think about the tempo of my poem and what syllables I shold stress or where I should pause. I want to make my performance as detailed as possible. Since English is my second language, it might be pretty challenging for me, but I really like it because it is also the process of learning. And I am also thinking about having background music while I am performing, because it will make the atmosphere better and make the audience more into the situation. I am probably going to use a song composed by a Japanese musician called "风居住的街道”, which means “The street that the wind lives in”. Because I think this song really matches the poem a lot.

   I also think I need to be speak really loud while I am performing, and I need to slow down the tempo because it is a serious poem. I think I also have to focus on my pronunciation a little bit because I it is going to make the poem sound more natural. I am very excited about to see how my final project is coming along, and I hope it is going to be good.