So, the beginning...

...I found a number of evening acting classes in Glasgow and signed up to as many as I could.

The first one to start was a Wednesday class for beginners at the UKTS opposite the closed down Odeon in the city centre.
When I first found the UKTS online, I wasn't convinced it was even a real place until I physically when there to drop my class fee (I would really recommend going to a place you don't know to give your hard earned, anyone could set up a website of any type and offer services for money & not even be real). Luckily, it was a real studio, with decent facilities and a couple of good tutors.
I signed up to a 8 week beginners course.
So, week one was good; warm up, a little inprov in groups then performance in front of the other groups. It was like being in secondary school again, but without the spots and awkwardness. Less awkwardness.
The next 5 weeks were good too but a little bit of a cul-de-sac; we broke down into small groups again, and cold read through scenes from firstly The Glass Menagerie for a couple of weeks, then a scene from something or other, again for couple of weeks. It really wasn't going anywhere. Couple with the fact that the tutor then hinted that we'd only might be moving on from this cold reading phase in the next term. What! I thought, according to the person on the phone, it's 8 weeks doing the beginners course, then 8 weeks on the intermediate, then if I wanted, a 10 week LAMDA certified course. A clear route of progression, right?
No.
It turns out that because high number of drop outs and perversely, high number of non movers, there hasn't been an intermediate course for a year or so. And, it turns out too, they only run the LAMDA thing a couple of times a year.
Well, I'm not going to pay every 8 weeks just to read scripts like a bunch of am-drams!

I want to learn! Yes, I'm not the best cold reader, in fact I'm really poor (but I can work on that on my own). I want to become an actor!

Where to start...

...at the beginning many before me once said.

I'm new to this acting lark. I say new, I mean it's been any months or so since I've been actively claiming to be an aspiring actor to my friends. A year maybe. But I've never freely expressed this fact to strangers.

Yet it's only now that I feel I'm getting somewhere with it. I haven't had my big break, to be honest, I'm not ready for it quite yet, but I feel finally comfortable in replying "training to be an actor" to the question, so what do you do?

It doesn't sound much but for me, and the way my mind seems to work itself out, it's a milestone.
It's like I heard a click about 4 centimetres behind my right eye, near the centre of my head; a penny dropping.

I'm an Actor!
Just need to get on with it now and get some work.