Acting

I've studied acting for a year now. Took classes with a teacher whose been in movies such as, The Crow, J.I. Gane, Two girls and a guy with Robert Downey, Jr. So I've been taking his classes and I've learned alot. But I am looking for other schools to attend and see other teachers. I have one monolog down, but am still trying to find myself in it. With monologs, you have to find one that you can relate to. In my monolog, I found one that I understood. It was a break up monolog. A couple breaks up and they both find themselves invited to the same dinner party. So the girl goes into the kitchen to vent to her girlfriend about how much of an asshole he is. And so acts like she doesn't care, but she's hurting. And while she babbles on about him, she ends it by saying she doesn't know how to describe him, when in fact, she said a whole lot about him. I read this and I understood it. But it's been hard to get the beats down. So reading it over and over again til I got it, helped. But I haven't performed this monolog in months. So I may not be good at it right now. So aside from that monolog, I've been looking for others. I rented books from the library one day and photo copied all the ones I thought were interesting. So I found a few and I'm currently going through them to feel them out. I enjoy character acting. I like to get into a character and act out my monolog. I need to try it with the character I choose to act like. Which is my friend Kimberly. She's completely opposite of me. And I thought that would be a challenge. So one day I called her and ask her if she wouldn't mind me studying her. She was delighted. So off I went. I performed 3 times for my teacher and I discovered that I enjoyed it. I had fun being Kim. My teacher also said that I was good. The first time he said I was good, but I needed to give him more and that I had potential. I was happy cause I knew I had potential. I just had to let it go and do it. I had to stop thinking so much and let it flow gently. But in character acting, you need to study the person's habits, their walk, know about them and know personal things. I got stuck one day when he ask me where in Argentina was she from. I thought to myself, "crap, I don't know..." So I had a look on my face and kept it going and came up with an answer and continued on like it was the truth. Meanwhile everyone laughed as I said Rio. I didn't break my character. So that was good. But in all, I enjoyed it alot. So, I'm taking a break from this for about two months... maybe, as funds are low and I'm on a tight budget these days. But I don't want to give up my dream. For once I want to persue and conquer. But let's persue first and see where it goes. I'm creative. My world needs to be creative and I am just finding out this more and more as I get older. I mean, I always knew I needed to be in this type of environment, but I wasn't sure when I was young. But now I am. Wish me luck.