Just a few months earlier I would never have 11 myself acting in a play in front of two hundred people. But when the time came, I got up on stage and 12 one of my greatest fears. I found a new person inside me, a much more 13 , outgoing person who had been hidden all along, just waiting for the opportunity to come. If not for my teacher, Mrs. Sather, I might never have found that 14 .