bliumchik | Pep Talks and Bitching About The Establishment

We got the first three periods off for practice, since we were before the interval. Our year sevens had come along nicely, but Zoe was neglecting her lot and they came over to bug us. Well, Grace came over to bug us. And a few other kids, but I don't know who was responsible for them. Anyway. Diana metamorphosed into The Fiery Dragon and screamed at people. But they persisted in walking onto OUR STAGE to say hello to their friends. ONTO IT. As in RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION. I had to advance menacingly upon them.

I also took period four and five off because I didn't feel up to sport. Then I got yelled at by Ms Jukic. After school we whipped our kids into shape and worked out a plausible Ipod-substitute. The pizza arrived and was descended upon by thousands of free-loaders, so I only got one piece. And I paid, dammit. Then we gave them a pep talk, which went something like this:

Diana: *Whispers something to Annie* RIGHT! Year sevens over here. Okay, so we’ve been working with you for two wonderful weeks now and-
Me: Pfft. Look. I know you guys have come a long way from that first rehearsal you didn’t show up to, and I’d like you to know that even if you forget all your lines up there, we’ve seen you, and we know you can act, and you rock. Yeah! *waves leetle flag*
Annie: W00t! We believe in you guys!
Diana: *nudges Annie* which brings you to your next point- come on say it!
Annie: What no- fine! Ahem, which brings me to my next point:
Diana and Annie: PROJECT YOUR VOICES!!!!
Me: Oh, that’s what you were- could you be a little more?! Gah.

They were a little worried about their lines but we told them the story of Annie and the Incident of the Vase, and they calmed down a little. And also looked at us with awe. Which wasn’t my aim at all. Anyway, they did the good, we had biscuits and tea at interval, and my dad was an hour late to pick me up because he fell asleep on the couch. I spent about half an hour sitting on a large toy dinosaur and watching people get tripped up by the Front Door of DETH, and wandering around singing. Then Ms Lane and Ms Wenman came out to wait with me, since they couldn’t leave till everyone else had. They discussed handbags, and two possums re-enacted world war two in the tree above our heads.

Today Katie came back to school after her long sojourn to Russia. Watch me green. Apparantly she has a crazy grandmother who lives in a dingy, old, really dark apartment in one of those housingcomission^15x buildings. She says things like “Stop jumping up and down, you’ll shit yourself”. Only in Russian. I want to meet Katie’s grandmother. Also her hot twenty-six year old cousin. :P She spent ages in maths talking about how he ought to be a model. As should her female cousin in Australia. Katie seems to have a lot of hot cousins. Keep an eye on her, boys :P

In drama we played games involving boppety-bop-boping kamikaze elephants. Annie also revealed yet another facet of our schools bitchiness. Well, we’ve seen this one already, but – ugh. One of Annie’s choices for Work Experience was a gay and lesbian newspaper. …you guys can see where this is headed, right? So they’re being PC and asked her to get a letter from the principal saying it’s okay for her to work there, and she’s talking to the great MV. MV tuts. MV wishes to see a letter from the establishment denoting the kind of things her pupil will be exposed to over the course of her work experience there. Annie offers up their website. MV harrumphs and does not wish to view such, er, things. Annie probably isn’t going to do work experience at THAT newspaper.

OMG to the WTF. Fo BBQizzle. What exactly do they think she is going to catch?! Oh noes, she might see people printing articles about Canada, and the dates of the next Mardi Gras! She might flaunt authority, throw away our honourable uniform code and come to school in a rainbow headband! This will destroy society as we know it! Bring in the storm troopers!

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