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29th June 2005

Auditorium

Modern School of Knowledge

Dear Diary,

OMG. Today was the first day of play practice, and there was only one word for it.

STINKY.

Seriously! I didn't know my school had such JERKS!

OK. It went like this:

I walked into the auditorium, which was buzzing with laughter and voices from all the kids and teachers there. I walked in, and it fell silent. I smiled sheepishly, and sat down with Talamin, who had been selected for the role of the wacky granny (!).

"OK, kids, thank you for participating for the Prize Day skit," Our Headmistress started.

"As you probably know, we are doing a remake of the popular movie Mulan. I will read out the characters, and the actors portraying them.

"Fa Mulan – Crystal Thatch.."

I blushed and walked to the front of the auditorium. Everyone applauded politely, and Tala hooted.

"Fa Li…" A girl I predicted to be older than me walked next to me. Her nose was in the clouds, but I just thought she had a habit of standing like that.

"Grandma Fa…." Tala walked next to the older girl and pretended to cry while accepting an imaginary Oscar from an invisible entity.

And so the names were read out. Soon we got to learning our lines. The director of the play, a teacher from the Senior Section, handed us our scripts, and we thanked her.

We decided to practice the "Matchmaker" scene. As I got to the part where Mulan is supposed to accidentally pour tea over the Matchmaker (in this case a FAT eighth grader)

she screeched in my ear, and pushed me. I stumbled backward, falling over. Then she got up, and yelled at me. "What's the idea of screeching in my ear like that!"

"Hey,…YOU'RE the one who screeched and pushed me!" I yelled back at her.

"No," the boy playing Fa said. "You screeched. We all heard it, right, guys?" He turned around to face the rest of the cast. Everyone except Tala and another girl nodded in agreement.

"WHAT!" I looked around helplessly for the teachers, but they were nowhere to be seen. The cast walked away, as a teacher burst in and said," OK, kids, practice time's over….My, Crystal , what happened?"

When I fell over I had sprained my leg. Tala and the anonymous girl helped me up, and handed me my bag. "Thanks, guys," I whispered as they helped me down the stage.

As we walked out of school, the girl said, "Hi…My name is Mina…I saw how that girl pushed you. The others were lying."

Before I could say anything, Tala spoke up sharply, "Why did they lie?"

Mina said, "They are jealous that she is the Princess, and thought it was favouritism by which you got the part. Before you came, the teachers were explaining that they chose Crystal because she was the best and not out of favouritism."

"Well, thanks a lot, Mina…See you tomorrow!" I yelled after her cheerfully as Tala helped me limp back to the Palace.

Dad had a fit when he saw the sprain. I mended it with my crystal, but it still hurts when I walked. I also found out that some of Dad's friends are coming from the US tomorrow to visit him.

That's it for today (I hope!)

Crystal Thatch

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