I wanted to share with you about our theatre week at school! We are now in the season of Lent, and in Germany there is a celebration before Lent begins that I can only compare to Mardi Gras. It's called Fasching, and there are parades, costumes, parties, and all kinds of crazy behavior to accompany it (my favorite was the wires that were strung up around the town square with undergarments hanging from them). Of course at CSK we can't celebrate Fasching, and instead devote a week to the theatre! This way the students could still dress up, but for an unrelated purpose. Each class performs a play (or two) for the rest of the school after a week of practice and rehearsing. Such fun!
Some of the classes decided to perform two plays, with the students memorizing their lines in their non-native language (German speakers spoke English and English speakers spoke German). Our class decided that one play was quite enough, and we chose "The Golden Goose" or "Die goldene Gans". It's a very funny play about a princess that simply refuses to laugh at anything so the King makes a proclamation that whoever can make her laugh can marry her. We then learn of a poor but kind man who receives a golden goose after taking pity on an old man in the forest. Soon he finds that anyone who touches the goose sticks to it! Silliness ensues, and of course this makes the princess laugh in the end.
We practiced all week during our regular language arts times, and it was so much fun to see my students excelling and showing their talent in a new way. At first I was reluctant to give up my language arts time (we only get an hour a day, so it's very precious) but quickly changed my mind. This week reminded me of how much I love my students and my job here at CSK. We are a unique school, and definitely have our challenges, but I am becoming so attached to our mission of loving and teaching both German and missionary students. God's working here!
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| The whole school crammed into our classroom to watch our play! |
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| Just some silliness before we get started. |
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| Our royal family. |
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| The king, queen, and bored princess. |
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| The court jesters attempting to make the princess laugh. |
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| Meeting the old man in the forest. |
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| "Oh no, I'm stuck to the goose!" |
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| "The whole town is stuck!" |
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| Taking a bow at the end. |
