By some early
Christmas miracle, Alex and I wrote the entire script for our
American Theater Group last night. We made sure to include a role for
each student, and cast them accordingly. It’s about a little girl
who is trying to find out whether or not Santa Claus is real. Classic
American Christmas tale. We decided to use the names of our friends
and family members, too. Since we don’t really know the names of
our students, we started calling them by their names in the show…
including our homeless person character. She now goes by “homeless.”
Our Santa Claus is from Azerbaijan, and one of our other characters
is from Thailand. Apparently, word spread about our theater group and
another girl came to rehearsal today, even though we already casted
everyone. Alex and I didn’t want to tell her to leave, so we told
her that we would write in a part for her and she would have it by
next Friday. She can open the show, everyone needs a show starter.
We have a very
diverse group of students, and working on their English is going to
be a fun challenge. To get everyone in the Christmas spirit, we even
brought in homemade Christmas cookies for everyone. Off to a good
start.
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