Our faces are still hurting a bit from smiling so much.
The hall was filled with the children's parents, grandparents, friends, relatives, neighbhours, countrymen and i suspect it was with great difficulty that people left their pets at home.
Everybody cheered for every child as if he/she was their own. One child sang a really long classical music-ish prayer song and gave all the parents including us a complex(ex : gosh...arjun can barely sing ba ba black sheep correctly!!)
Another little boy actually gave the welcome address, all in one breath, without missing a beat and didnt help our self esteem one bit.
When it was arjun's turn to come on stage, maddy and i were pretty calm and collected if one did not notice our tightly held hands. Our zebra, wearing a pair of zebra striped dungarees with a white shirt, didnt let us down. When a hand pushed him on to the stage from the wings, he kind of hop-ran and took his place and kept peeping at the teacher in the wings. Then he gave up on her and started biting his nails and scanning the audience for us ... which was okay because all eyes were on the wailing little lion who kept walking into the wings and then kept getting shoved right back on stage. He was the real star of the show...tears and all :)
Needless to say, they got a thunderous round of applause like everybody else :)
So it was not as bad as we thought it would be.
junjun went happily to school today when i told him 'no more dancing'. Still feels strange saying that to a boy who sets the floor on fire when he dances at home!!
10 comments:
HOORAY ! So he dis his part well. I wonder if the wailing lion's mum is a blogger as well !!!
i would have loved to meet the zebra. saanya was a dolphin last year and this year, the school has started preparing for another show. i shudder to think!
the 'xyz' rides better be worth it...else am taking you to court on behalf of the All India Dance Dodgers Union!
devi : YES!!! :) Frankly, we all lost our hearts to the lion!
roopa : dolphin sounds lovely!! would love to hear know what she is going to be this year...
k : i suspect the income side of their balance sheet has junjun all over it :)
roopa, that was supposed to read - i would love to know what... ;)
Hahaha!!! That was hilarious and quite vivid...reading your last few posts makes me realize that children can be the source of the best humour, particularly because it is never contrived.
Go get the visual biography of Charles Shulzs' Peanuts comic strip. Every little boy is a Charlie Brown:) You'll enjoy it, I guarantee!
- Z
Last two posts were hilarious!
justpathe : true, true...never know whats coming next! :)
zak : actually, both junjun n me dont like competition...but we shall anyway take a magnanimous relook at charlie brown ;)
archie, that was really hilarious...i now closely follow junjun's journey!
ganga, considering that u r, in a very warped and round about way, also responsible for his existence, i couldnt be happier!! ;)
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