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I've
been at Sandale for two weeks and I
finally got a potentially challenging
assignment! Ms. Phipps, our English
teacher, is having us write a short play
and perform it! That's great, but instead
of each of us writing our
own play... we actually have
to do this as a group project!
(Shakespeare didn't have writing partners,
so why do I need them?) To make things
worse, she put me with: Dee, Chaz and
Miguel!!!! Of course, I can see right
through Ms. Phipps' reasoning. Since this
is a project about "Making Connections"
and Chaz, Dee, Miguel and I just
transferred here, our inspired teacher
thinks it would be "interesting" for us to
work together. Interesting... yeah right!
I think I would use another word... like
"catastrophic"!
So
we have to write a play about creating
relationships and being an Insider vs.
being an Outsider. Then we have to put it
on for the class. And during all of this
we have to keep a journal about the
development of our own relationships
within the group. No one will see the
journals except her, so we can freely
express our feelings and examine what's
involved in building trust and breaking
down walls between people. Great, except
for the fact that the walls between me and
these other guys are so thick there's no
way I can break them... not
that I'd even want to. Our first
assignment is to write down our
impressions of the other people. Okay, Ms.
Phipps... this one's for you:
Dee
- Ms. Party Girl. Everything she does is
calculated to have an effect on the people
around her. The way she talks, the way she
dresses, everything! She is totally
unspontaneous, uncreative and
unreal.
Chaz
- He is an airhead skater type. He never
uses more than three words in a sentence
and all of them are meaningless slang. And
when he's not talking out loud, he's
muttering to himself. He's either psycho
or on drugs. Great writing partner,
huh?
Miguel
- Someone said he moved here to escape a
gang in Los Angeles where he supposedly
killed someone. I don't know if I actually
believe that, but he sure looks like the
kind of person you wouldn't want as your
enemy.
What
am I doing in a group with these
people?!
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