Thursday, May 1, 2008

Can't help but adore them!


This photo is Lucy's group of Seahorses from the children's play, Little Mermaid on Saturday. Can you find her?

It was so fun to see the 70-some kids who participated transform. In January when we started practicing lines and songs, most of the kids could barely fumble through the English script, with incomprehensible pronunciation and zero enthusiasm. But, when the final week of practices arrived, they had most of their lines down. Then the two actors did their magic in teaching them to express themselves with huge gestures and dancing in, out and across the stage. Most of the audience was Japanese and couldn't understand many of the silly puns like the new jellyfish that were discovered when researching new species of peanut butter plankton. But, when I heard giggles and applause from the audience throughout the show, I was really proud of their little show. Good job kids!

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