![]() ![]() Para que se vaya recto, debes apuntar recto. So, about what I was saying…ĭerecha, right, got it. I will show you how to play with the Frisbee. Yo te enseñare como jugar con el Frisbee. Maria will teach you how to play hopscotch. So I could spend the whole lunchtime listening to that totally dumb Spanish tape.Ĭram today so I pass the quiz tomorrow. Yeah, I packed a lunch and snuck bites during social studies. Let’s hit the slop line and chow down real fast so we can squeeze in a bit of you-know-what practice. Uh, me, too, but maybe don’t do that with the broom?īut you’re not gonna be dunkin’ this guy. Well, whatever it is, I’m just glad you’re out of the dumps. Yeah, she’s been cleaning that one spot for, like, half an hour. Well, I’m gonna turn the water booth into “what a cool booth.”Ī kid can’t drink water out of that and not feel cool, huh? I mean, I don’t drink the stuff, but I’ve heard good things. That’s so great you guys finally get to run a booth at the school fair. Rodrigo, you just turned my blahs into ooh-la-las. Look, Rodrigo, I mean, I know we just met and you’re just a voice on a tape, but you’re feeling this, too, right?Ĭome, let’s take a walk around the plaza. I will show you the plaza and buy you a Popsicle. Te mostraré la plaza y te compraré una paleta.Ĭome. Um, estoy emocionado to be staying with you, Rodrigo. I am excited that you’re staying with us. RODRIGO: Estoy emocionado que te estás quedando con nosotros. Just two little years younger than you, Rodrigo. NARRATOR: Your first practice conversation will be with Rodrigo. NARRATOR: And meet their two children, seven-year-old Maria… NARRATOR: Now say hello to his wife, Señora Balthazar. NARRATOR (on tape): Welcome to “Pack Your Bags,” Spain Edition.Īre you ready to pack your bags and head to Spain? Okay, um, can you tell me where the language lab shelf is? I’ll need three for the snow cone booth, minimum. Please tell me you’re gonna waste all your tickets again on trying to knock me into the dunk tank. Well, well, well, look who we have here… the Belchers. Raw pube power is what got us to the moon. You at least throw hard, with your raw pube power. It gets in the way of really important things like humiliating Mr. So I guess you’ll just have to practice without me. So, right after I eat, I got to go to the el stupido library and work on Spanish. Pass the weekly quiz on Thursday, and you’ll get your after-lunch break back. You’ll practice with the Spanish tape this week during after-lunch break. Well, we have cassette tapes on a shelf in the library that someone donated in the 1980s. Dunk our guidance counselor!Īctually, imagining all this sort of is making me feel better. Frond, into a pool of his own tears.Ĭome on, dukes in. ![]() ![]() It’s less of a windup and more of an interpretive dance.Īnd then on Friday, one of us will finally dunk Mr. I’ll build some upper body strength, Tina’s gonna tame that wild arm of hers, and Gene’s gonna get a handle on his possibly too complicated windup. So, for the next three days at lunch recess, I propose we sneak on over to the dunk tank and practice. I found out the dunk tank is getting delivered to the school today. This is gonna be our year, ’cause this year, we’re gonna practice. I mean, we’ve never been able to do it, so I feel like imagining it is the closest we’re gonna get? Frond’s dumb face when one of us finally knocks him into the dunk tank at the fair. Sad little dolls playing with their sad little drums. So, we’re running a booth this year? Which one? Well, it’s no temporary tattoo booth, but I guess it’s something. It’s been three straight years of cleanup committee. Scott Baggs just said the clouds will lift by Friday.īy the way, thank you so much for assigning us to a booth this year. The most exciting thing that’s happened to me lately is when I thought we got a new bar of soap in the kitchen, but it was a peeled potato.Īh, the school fair’s not getting rained out. Isn’t spring supposed to be full of promise and new growth and crap like that? Meanwhile, Tina is suffering crippling ennui, but is lifted out of it by an infatuation with a teenage boy – or rather, the voice of one on a decades-old Spanish language teaching cassette. It’s school fair time again, and Gene and Louise are training hard on throwing skills to at last put Mr Frond smack in the dunk tank.
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