The room exploded with noise and activity at this point as people started literally climbing over chairs and tables to get to the other side of the room where their friends were. You naturally tag along with the other lads and after a while the noise dies down.
"Right, now you're in your groups, number yourselves 1 to 8", you were told you were number 2. "Now all the number 1s come over here, 2s over there and so on..."
'Oh great', you think to yourself. You should have seen this one coming, the old group switchup trick. Looking round your new group, you were thrilled to see that Rachel is in it, 'I just hope its not going to be too awkward...'. All in all, the group of 8 was split nice and evenly into 4 boys and 4 girls.
"Everybody get a partner, girls with boys, boys with girls", came the next instruction. As much as you liked her, you really didn't want to be stuck with Rachel, and you were sure the feeling was mutual. Everyone was splitting off into pairs, those two were going out with each other so they went together, another two liked each other but weren't 'public' yet, so you were down to two. The girl that wasn't Rachel, Lauren, gave Rachel a sly glance and walked towards the boy that wasn't you, Liam. Somewhat begrudgingly you and Rachel saunter over to meet each other. "Erm... hi" you say, cursing yourself as your voice cracks from not talking for a while, "So, it looks like we're together then".
"Yeah, looks that way", she replies. Once everyone had found a partner and worksheets had been handed round, the next instructions were given out.
"From reading your essays last week I noticed that everyone here, both in my class and in Mrs Hastings', finds it really easy to empathise with characters who are of the same gender but hard to get the same quality of depth out of characters of the opposite sex. Today we're going to do some excercises to resolve that problem, on the sheets which I've just given you there are a number of different scenarios which you might have had experience in in real life or you might not, it doesn't really matter. What does matter though is how you respond to these questions, write down what you would do in that situation, truthfully, and then give them to your partner." You shift uncomfotably in your seat, you could definately hazard a guess at what was coming next. "You and your partner are then going to act them out as each other to the rest of your group who will then rate your performance and write it down on this other sheet. I will be coming round all of you and although I might not be standing next to you, I could be watching from the other side of the room, so get to work!"
Glancing over at Rachel, you see she has a look of despair on her face, your thoughts exactly. Although you were secretly quite happy to have the opportunity to learn more about her, and besides, this was a drama lesson, so you could always act as if nothing had happened between you, start fresh...
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