Little Faith From A Shining Star

     It's been a long time dream of mine now to become a software engineer and design a brilliant video game that will top the charts all over the world. This was originally inspired when i first decided that gaming companies were gorging themselves off the dollars of uninspired and frankly dim gamer's by making extremely small modifications to their previous games and selling them as original ones. I want to be a part of a company that actually designs new games that sell themselves rather then the name. What I never expected was being a part of helping a company start from the ground up.
     It all started when my friend Clayton came up to me one day asking if I had an interest in helping be part of a video game design company. It was all up in the air for a while until he finally brought us together and said it's time to form a company. In the beginning there were seven of us which is now slowly dwindling. We would gather in Mrs. Novell's filming studio and utilize the Smartboard four our presentations and note taking. The first issue was finding a name for ourselves before we even considered developing a game to make. After weeks of debating and trying to find a single original name out there that made sense and wasn't taken we finally pinned down Proxima Centauri. Now game production could finally begin.
     The first issue with that was trying to find out what the game would be all about. We needed to design a story and what kind of genre it would fall under. The game was long under production before we even came close to finding a name for it. Originally six of the members wanted a name for the game that I completely disagreed on and threatened to leave the team should it be chosen. After that another name came up for debate challenging the original and with me included six members moved to make it the name of the game. The only nay sayer was the person who originally thought of the first name that I completely disagreed with. After a massive feud that almost broke up the company we decided to completely trash both names and start the long search for completely different name that we could all agree on. After a couple months of working on the game and throwing out just about any name that came to mind at the weekly meetings we finally found one. The final name of thew game was unanimously voted on to be Martyr.
     What were doing just seems to make sense to people we tell about it. To be honest though all but on of our now six members think the company will really go anywhere but we keep pushing for it anyways. The best thing that we have done so far is making sure that everything we do is done right. Also when we need help we go to sources, mainly teachers, that we know have experience in these sort of matters and can offer some great advice.

The Beginning and Ending

     After what I considered a long struggle in Drama I finally made it to Thespian Induction. It was the first Monday of May and things were smoothly taking their course until Buckwalter warned us that Induction was Wednesday. So we needed to write a speech to give and invite as many people as we could. We even had to find a speaker to kick it off. I grabbed a few invites and headed on over to Peterson's to talk to him about being the speaker. it took a little group persuading but we got him to say ok. After that It was a matter of finding everyone who could go that would go.

     That night as I got home I sat down in-front of Google docs and let the words fly. After a couple hours of non-stop typing I concluded it and looked over my work. I ended up typing a three page speech detailing everything I had always wanted to say since I performed my final performance. During school the next day I realized three pages was really hogging the show. So I sat down again and began cutting out every un-needed paragraph or sentence. After massacring my speech I had managed to cut it by half. So a few quick edits and it was ready for presentation.

     Wednesday finally rolled around the corner and boy was it a long one. Since I have an eighth hour college class on Wednesday's I had to get dressed in the restroom and head on over. Everyone was excited reciting speeches as I walked in. When we weren't making last minute revisions we were finding out whats going to go down when the show starts. It was a small crowd but it was full of familiar faces. So here's how it was supposed to go down.  The lights would go up and we would walk down in pairs to the stage. We would all sit down and Buckwalter would give an introduction speech then Peterson would take the stage and give the traditional Induction speech. After that the inductee's each get up and give a speech. Then it's kind of over.

     Now the differences started with I walked down the steps first by myself. It was kind of cool like I was spear-heading things or so I like to think. Then I just couldn't sit still. It's one thing to sit in classes all day but they keep you distracted and give you changing periods to get up and stretch. During the length speeches I admit I got bored just sitting there smiling. Next apparently I kind of stole the show with my speech. As I sat back down the inductee's were nagging the next speaker asking "wow, Alicia how are you going to follow that up?" All I could do was apologize and hide my laughter.

     After that we held a small reception where everyone could eat sweets and talk about the inductee's speeches. I would have liked to stay longer and talk about the good ol' times but my family was dragging me away. So I waved goodbye and drove off staring at the small paper in my hand. I finally made it to Thespian status but now my high school acting days are over. I think I'll get this award laminated and keep it around for a while just like Mr. Peterson did. Maybe someday when I'm old and gray I can hold it and remember all the good times I had with the random characters I acted with once upon a time.