Personal Narrative: A Midsummer's Night Dream

Right from when I was a child, I was known to people as friendly, sociable and very communicative. All shades of performing could be found in me. One of the long time influences is my second grade teacher - Ms. King, she encouraged me to be confident and bold because I was the only black student in her class at the Banjul American Embassy School, The Gambia. The bank my father worked with transferred him to The Gambia. The grade school and the middle school do functions together due to the small size of the school. During our Christmas Carol, we all auditioned for the soloist role and I got the lead role. Wow! Such a gratifying experience and that obviously built my confidence and increased my “I can do it” attitude. The encouragement I received was overwhelming from my teachers, family and people generally and this brought out my latent gift in the world of entertainment. The support I was given, propelled me to do more and this earned me a role in the popular Shakespeare play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this
Taraji Henson, a fantastic and awesome actor and one of my role models, graduated from Howard University with a degree in Theater Arts. There are also some superb and unarguably talented entertainers who effortlessly deliver with such ease that makes anyone marvel, it is so fascinating to me to know that these great people got their minders touch from this great university, I bet to say that being part of Howard’s legacy will be one of my proudest achievements. The joy and the stories from my older sister who is a senior in Chemical Engineering is enough to know that Howard University is a great place to learn and grow in all