Acting-month 2

I started my second month of learning how to act in New York.
The same studio, teacher, time. Couple of new people and much smaller group-of six.
That's actually great for the six of us-more stage time, more personal attention.
These classes are just o.k.most of the time, but necessary to get to the next level-scene study. That is when the real work starts but we need to have tools for it.
So we're learning basic acting tools. And it's a craft, believe me.And more difficult than I ever thought.But at the same time, easier.
Let me explain, at least a bit.You can not be caught acting. You have to look natural,feel natural, sound natural to your audience. And in order to do that,you need to become the character by really getting to know yourself.A little bit scary, right?
It's also a good therapy.
So we were doing all these exercises today--Meisner technique(if that's how you spell his name-too tired to Google.)--picking clues up from your partner, reenacting, reconstruction some experience, motivating ourselves to build a house of cards. Literary.
At the end of the day, it was educational, somewhat silly, very funny and tiring.But again, necessary for the next level.