The Random Thread

[Robusto]

I think the regulars here know I'm a teacher by day and a keyboard player in a band by night.

I've referred elsewhere to a music forum I go on regularly. I'm going to put something on here that I posted on the music forum yesterday because the regulars there quite liked it, and I get a lot of musos to come in to my classes, or we arrange gigs where I work, and so on. I know a lot of the contributors personally, therefore.

I teach French, IT, Music and Drama in a state secondary school.

Here's what I posted there yesterday:




This happened today.

Scene: Drama studio
Purpose: Children - Show teacher and classmates your prepared homework sketches for the Children In Need School Show tomorrow
Clientele: Circa 30 Y8 pupils. 12 and 13 year olds.
Note: I had no idea of what's coming
A couple of routine EastEnders-type sketches were acted out.
This was the third sketch.



Two girls enter in country and western attire.

One girl sits on a stool and starts to sing unaccompanied. Quite slowly.



I'm nothing special
In fact I'm a bit of a bore...



The second girl goes up to the first girl and chokes her. The first girl falls 'dead' to the floor.

END OF SKETCH.





I could now write a two page essay on here about how I reacted to this.

The God's honest truth is that I had to escape to a PC in the adjoining costume store and pretend to be sending a message to the office.

I was actually just about uncontrollable with laughter.

I ain't prissy. All human life is there for me in these moments. The pupils knew that and they know me and we laugh a hell of a lot about all sorts, but for some strange reason I had almost wet myself out of sight.

This tale may look utterly stupid to you, but I've been living with the tickles of it for the whole of my day.


I'll add to this if you want the follow-up.

[Giulio]

Follow up please :P

[Robusto]

OK, G. Posted this earlier this afternoon.

I've co-compered 90 minutes of song and dance etc etc this afternoon.

There was a girl who took all the things she had ever sewn out of a bag one by one and just talked about them. Purses. A book cover.
She did this straight.

I liked that.

Then one kid who made heself into an R2D2 (is that right?) dwarf. An ET thing. Apparently she does this on every corridor every lunch time and out on the school fields, but I'd never seen it before.

At the end she toppled over like a beetle on its back.

She just wanted to do that on a stage this time.

Thank You For The Music had morphed into a pacifist version today. Disappointing.

Unlike yesterday, I have unsullied pants on at the end of the day, but it was still a laugh all in all.



Music. Dance. Drama.
What a skive, eh?!

[Willie1]

lol, go on Bryan, you know you want to post the follow up lol

Life is full of various little oddities and hunours, which are always good to look at in the positive way, it helps to make life more enjoyable

Willie

[Robusto]

Laugh - and the world laughs with you
Weep - and you weep alone

[Willie1]

Very true

Life such a strange and fickle thing, and it never ceases to be interesting to some extent or another , particularly when you see a neighbour in town and walking stringht into a lamp post, only to wind up with a black eye

Willie