Cinderella Quits

After a week in which the team I coached at the debate acquitted itself admirably, the encore this week is to be a talent show. My home room class is the Junior Bs. My approach was to let them choose a play from amongst twenty in their playbook. However the day we were to choose my class had a visit in the early morning. The President of the Training Centre who compiled the collection of plays had come to dictate which plays the class would do and who would be who. The play book arrived late Tuesday and this was Friday. There were only eight days to curtain call and she was worried. So Diana wanted to get things moving in her own manner. Trouble is she assigned two plays, not one. And my class is already singing two songs (Auld Lang Syne in English should be a treat!) So in the past they have had three weeks to prepare. Why then assign two plays which risk being compromised? With one it had a chance of being half-assed. To boot Cinderella has left school early. Daddy has whisked her off to Paris and Italy (not many Chinese get foreign holidays). My plan was to have understudies but we don't have them now. Just go with the flow I tell myself. And the Typhoon is overhead, ominous..........