While the world as we knew it seems to be spectacularly going down outside, I, in the meantime, must admit have had one of the best weeks ever, and certainly the best of my teaching career.
After weeks and weeks of preparations that tipped our day-to-day routines into full-blown chaos, on Monday morning Gen Rosso finally came to our school with their huge musical project "Streetlight". And right from the start, effortlessly it seemed, they turned the chaos into an atmosphere buzzing with anticipation and creativity.
For three days our students danced and sweated, acted and sang, built and painted, rehearsed and trained, drummed and played, battled against their short attention spans, mood swings and lack of self-confidence and overcame their shyness and sore muscles.
Yesterday then was the big day of the big night of the big show. It's hard to describe the atmosphere that had the transformed gym humming with excitement all day during the final rehearsals.
I won't pretend that it wasn't also a fair bit exhausting to help coordinate everything and to try and settle down and answer the billions of questions of 400 bubbly, hyper pupils.
Then again, whenever I found a quiet moment I just found myself watching the kids and thinking what a huge, huge pity it is that the school system forces us into such rigid corsets that we hardly ever get a chance to see our pupils behave like this. To see them discover new talents and blossom under the appreciative looks of newly-found role models and friends, to watch them straighten up and broaden their shoulders with a new confidence and happiness they didn't know they possessed.
So, millions and millions of heartfelt thanks to everyone from Gen Rosso for sharing with us your boundless energy, your talent, your kindness, your optimism, your patience, for giving our pupils' faces a glow like this...
...and smiles like these...
...and for giving us teachers the opportunity to see "our" kids...
...in a new light!
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