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Hello! I'm going to tell you about a time when I did something that was really challenging for me.

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I performed in a play, a Shakespeare play, as you like it, in an outdoor production that was viewed by 300 people a night.

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Um, so this was a daunting prospect and also I had members of my family and my friends

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who were coming to see me and in fact every night I had somebody who was coming to watch

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me which was really nice, really supportive but quite scary at the same time.

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Um, it wasn't my first time done acting before, I did acting at university and school and

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in fact I did acting in primary school and I remember being really scared. I had terrible

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stage fright when I was a child. I was so shy. I think I've become a little bit better

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since then, she says, and I feel a lot more comfortable. It still is challenging. You've

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always got the worry that you're going to forget your words and in fact in this particular

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instance, I was quite worried about forgetting my lines, or someone else forgetting their

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lines, or tripping up, or falling off the stage, all these things you have to worry

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about. And in fact, I did forget my words, I mixed up my words, and I was doing my scene

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and I thought, oh no, because the guy who was playing my love interest, I had to give

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him his cue and he realised what had happened and he was amazing. He jumped in and saved

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the day and straight away he clocked it. But nobody else in the audience realised. And

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afterwards I asked my mum, I said, oh did you notice we had a bit of a hiccup? No, not

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at all. With acting, the way to prepare is to brush up on your lines. You just have to

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know your stuff. Otherwise, you are going to have a disaster. But honestly, it's an

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amazing experience. It's challenging. It's scary. But the feeling of elation that you

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have, you know, you feel on a high when you come off. You think, oh, God. And in fact,

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it's that buzz when you're acting, that adrenaline boost that you have that is so exciting.

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so you know i have done it since um i would do it again i i have done it again and i will do it

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again um because it's something that i really enjoy and it's very rewarding