today we got to wear coloured shirts to school.
not any colour, just red, orange, yellow and pink.
which were supposedly Chinese new year colours.
but that's not really true because according to last weeks issue of urban, green, purple and blue and as well.
anyway, that is besides the point.
i am always besides the point.
ANYWAY (i feel like I'm talking to myself as i write here. i probably am.)
in the morning we watched a dragon dance performance (which was really good except one of the dancers stepped in the tail of the dragon and its pink scales fell off, exposing fluorescent yellow scales underneath), and a lion dance (and the lion threw whole oranges instead of peeling them and throwing the skin)
and then the class reps had to go and give oranges to their teachers and i ran up and down the stairs about 5 times looking for Mrs Chan only to find out that she was in the lobby next to the mike where people give their speeches. So i was walking to her when suddenly i realised the Orange giving time was over and all the class reps had gone back and everyone else was looking at the lobby where someone was saying something and i was walking right towards the centre of attention and i was TRAPPED (ie, i had to give the oranges to mrs chan but i couldn't just cross in front of the people making announcements)
So i hid behind one of the many stands in the lobby that laud our achievements.
i tried to pretend to be a prefect who had all reason to be standing behind a big green board with posters on it. and then i realised that alot of parents who had been normally sitting near their children were walking towards me.
it turned out they were chinese scholar parents here for the new year.
i had to wait til all that was over til i could give the flipping oranges to mrs chan.
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