After yet another none existent practise session, Saturday saw our little drama group in costume and squashed into a mini bus and on the way to LF. Our arrival caused absolute chaos!!! Hundreds of children poured out of the houses with their mothers and ended up blocking the roads...our bus was mobbed! We spent a hot half hour stuck inside the bus while the crowds were organised and the selected kids were ushered in. I will allow you a moment of believing that we were THAT popular........in actual fact we were mobbed because the families knew we'd give out cake and sweets.
In true Ecuadorian style our main character (Santa Claus) hadn't turned up so we entertained the crowd with songs and games We were introduced as our characters and each one of us had to run into the hall, do a lap of honour and then spend the next 40 minutes leading hordes of children in fun songs with actions! Do you know any fun, Spanish, children's, Christian, Christmas songs? No? Well neither did I or Amy but we didn't let that stop us! We slapped on big grins and madly copied the person next to us (a life saving technique over here!) I am oh so sorry (yeah right!) to say that I was so busy doing stuff that I have no photos of the happy event! You'll have to wait longer before seeing me prance about as an elf.
The drama itself seemed to go well. LF is chaotic at all times but especially at events. I have been to various events and nobody has ever sat down and listened to a talk, dance or drama but this time they all sat down and stayed silent!!! Absolute miracle. Afterwards we gave out the bags of Christmas sweets in our costumes. For years to come they'll be photos of children looking bewildered next to a random selection of dressed up dolls, elves and Barbie girls.
P.S. The big red circles they painted on my cheeks didn't wash off! I spent the next 2 days with bright red cheeks.
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