My Role Play: A Reflection Of A Role Play

For this final role play I felt very confident in my ability to have a successful conversation. Looking back to my very first experience, I can see where I have grown, and where I still need to improve. I was surprised from the very beginning to see how easy it was to stay in character when I was acting out something I was experiencing in my everyday life. After going through a couple of these I felt I could deal with the actual problem in my life without it going wrong. I do not think that I will be quite as assertive in real life, as I was in my role play, but I still think I gave me a good place to start. For this role play I chose to create a situation where I had to tell my best friend that I was not going to be rooming with her next year. This is something that I am struggling with because I do not want to hurt her feeling, but rooming with her is really hard for me. I feel like if I tell her that I don’t want to room with her, it might ruin our friendship, but I know if we keep rooming together it will ruin our friendship because we are so different. While I was acting this out with my listener I notice that I would have a hard time finding the words I need to say in response to hard questions she gives me. When my listener asked me if she had done anything in particular that

I feel that from the first role play I have definitely gotten better at having difficult conversations that I will probably have to be a part of in my real life. I still feel like there are things I say during role plays that I would have a hard time saying in a real conversation because there is so much more at stake in a real conversation. None the less, having these experiences have given me something to go off of when I do have to be in these conversations. By the time I have to confront my roommate about the issues I am having with our situation I think that I will be much more prepared for the