And then Laura was put in charge of the school play and she asked me to be her co-director!! ^_^ Awesome!!! We got to go rehearse with all of the kids and block all of the scenes and try to teach these poor people how to ACT instead of just regurgitate the script from memory. I mean, okay... I give them some credit, considering the whole play is in their second language. But jeeze Louise, people! Needless to say, I had a GREAT time practicing with them! Tee hee... All of those years of taking acting classes as a child finally paid off and I was crazily doing each of their parts to try to show them how looking like a crazy person and going over the top was actually finally a GOOD THING, rather than something that would get all of their teachings slamming books on the blackboard and yelling at them for. :) Haha.
The coolest part of the day was deciding that we should get some of the first graders in one of the scenes that has school children fighting. I got to pick my favorite first graders and teach them their lines and what to do in the scene. As it turned out, they were way better at it all than the older students and had the lines memorized in five minutes and loved getting to shout and run around on cue. Haha! So cute!
After a day of rehearsal, I had my last "class" with Mr. Nacho Man. His dad picked us up and we went out for ice cream and roller skating! ^_^ Awesome! While he roller skated around the plaza, his dad and I had a Fanta and just talked. When Nacho would skate by he'd talk to his dad in Spnish and then to me in English. The sheer impressiveness of that could never, ever get old. Damn. Especially considering how our first few classes he sat there, sometimes crying, but always silent. I remember that first class in which we played Smurf Parchezi and he did magic tricks for me... All without saying a SINGLE WORD. The next few weeks were spent drawing, during which I'd talk to him but he'd only shake his head yes or no. And then the breaking point, where he tried to baracade me in the kitchen using all of his stuffed animals, and when I started throwing them back, yelling the animal's name, he started giggling and throwing them back at me, also using their names... In English, too! And that was the moment we became friends. ^_^
But to realize that was only eight months ago and that today he had absolutely no problem communicating with me in English about whatever it was he wanted to say... It's just ridiculously incredible. Coolest 7 year old ever. <3
XOXO
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