Preparing for the Big Finish

     I   can hardly believe that just two weeks ago we were on the plane traveling to Poland and now we’re wrapping it up, getting ready for the  big Friday night performance for parents and friends and then the good-byes.

     This was a nonstop day. The first two hours were regular English classes and the next two were for an English language movie. Georgianna’s class divided into two groups, girls and boys, to start work on the Friday presentation. They’ll act out simple, basic English situations, what I call “courtesy and survival English,” throwing in as many “th” sounds as possible. Alex and Charlotte will participate with this class and also with Dorota’s class in the “invisible bench” sequence. Jim’s class is working on an advanced musical number, not the Marine Corps hymn, alas.

     The weather was gorgeous so students were  out on the tennis and volleyball courts, the football field, and in the very cold swimming pool when they weren’t in the big tent preparing for the Circus of Fun and Thrills. Kasia (Catherine), the theatre director, did two full run-throughs of the show. Georgianna started out as the official rehearsal audience but soon metamorphosed into the speech and diction coach. Lots of “th’s” and “the’s.” I must say, it is a spectacular show with acrobats, a juggler, hula hoop dancers, animal trainers and animals—elephants, lions, snakes and polyglots.

 Georgianna