This years excursion was to Kamakura.
A city! Its finally a city! Goodbye, mountain climbing! Or so I thought until I heard that, yep, we were going to be hiking. To think that even Kamakura had hiking&h.e.l.lip;
But well, I guess I was already kinda prepared for that. The real problem was the food.
After spending the whole gruelling morning on hiking, next was returning to the reserved hotel banquet hall to have lunch together as a whole grade. I was told that we were going to have seafood. Seafood is great stuff.
The problem cos after. Apparently its Suiran tradition to have the External Students of each cla.s.s gather together to prepare so kind of skit for the lunch. Like a baptism of sorts for them.
But a skit! And in front of three-hundred odd people! Its a total punishnt ga.
When the Externals in my cla.s.s heard about it, all of them went deathly pale. Not like I dont understand though.
After asking around a bit, apparently the previous years were pretty much all choirs and concerts, with the occasional dance or magic trick. A few oddb.a.l.l.s apparently banded together to recite j.a.panese waka poetry or haikus, too.
That day, each ti we had spare ti, the Externals would group together and plan for the lunch skit. Mn, for things like this you have to decide what to do first after all.
Cant we just sing sothing?
But whatever would we sing? And would it be possible to sing loudly enough for a large hall such as this?
But that makes it even harder to see a skit.
Hmm~ Looks like theyre having trouble.
Satomi-kun and I called out to them.
How goes it? Have you yet agreed upon anything?
They all shook their heads at with troubled expressions.
Apparently most people just sing or perform on instrunts, I added.
But itd be difficult to bring instrunts&h.e.l.lip;
I believe it quite possible to have them loan you at least a piano or a guitar. And the hall is furnished with a screen so with a microphone small magic tricks or juggling should be possible.
Really!?
Looks like they had more options now.
By the way, whats the most popular thing for us to do?
From what I hear, so students with particular confidence in their singing voices decided to sing Nessun Dorma. Apparently they were t with quite an applause, and were called the Three Tenors of Suiran or sosuch. They were so popular in fact that the popularity of doing mini operas sky-rocketed in the following years, or so the story goes.
Opera&h.e.l.lip;
The Three Tenors&h.e.l.lip;? But if there were only three singers, what was everybody else doing?
Lighting and sound, it seems.
Having it focused around one person might not be a bad idea.
However, pushing the pressure onto a single cla.s.smate is not ideal, so generally things of more equal partic.i.p.ation are expected. The exceptions are only when sobody is particularly talented at sothing.
Talent&h.e.l.lip;
They looked at each other. Unfortunately none of them seed to be superstars of any sort. They all looked a little crestfallen.
Dances are popular too but it kinda depends on how tired each cla.s.s is after the hike, advised Satomi-kun.
Yeah~ If it were Id be half dead after all the walking.
But theres been all kinds of dances too. Stuff from proper dances, to waltzing to piano music or sothing.
Ive never waltzed before.
neither&h.e.l.lip; Outside of folk dancing at school, Ive never really&h.e.l.lip;
Folk dancing, huh. If sobody did like an Oklahoma Mixer, Id probably end up laughing.
Ah, maybe a Mayim Mayim would be more exciting?
It turned out to be a unanimous vote against folk dancing. After long deliberation, they chose on the safe option of choir singing.
They imdiately went to practice after school but the kids from the other cla.s.ses were thinking the sa thing obviously, so it was quite a scramble for the piano. After all, whether for choir or concert performances, the piano is a key part, right?
The music rooms in the high school section werent enough so I went and negotiated with the school. In the end I got permission for them to use the middle school ones as well.
Youre amazing. You got us permission to use the middle school rooms? Umm, I guess you used your power as a Pivoine, right? asked a girl hesitantly.
Hmmm. I cant really say. When I went talked to the teacher I was just like,
Say, since you made take up the cla.s.s rep position and all, just lending a room or two is nothing, riight?
so Im pretty sure I wasnt demanding anything. Mn. That sounds right. It was just a request.
I should think it was because the school cooperates with its students, I smiled.
Please dont look at so suspiciously.
Anyway, I was pushing for them to sing gospel music but they were like We dont have enough people for that&h.e.l.lip; and refused. Hm, do you really need that many people? I an, the Three Tenors of Suiran managed, so cant you get loud enough if you try? I was so sure itd be popular too.
In the end they chose sothing easy. Well, its a song I quite like anyway, so its all good I guess.
After entrusting the key to the music rooms to the External students, I headed for the Pivoine. Just to be safe, Ill check up on the Externals once more before I go ho later.
On the way, I b.u.mped into Katsuragi Boy in the hallway.
Ah! Why the h.e.l.l areyouin the middle school!
I checked the hallway in all directions. Hmm~ n.o.body seems to be here. Alright.
OWWW!
I sentenced the rude little junior to a facial noogie.
I didnt hold back at all so Im sure it hurt quite a bit. Since he we were the sa height though, he pulled off rather easily.
What the f.u.c.k are you doing, violent woman!?
Is that how you address a senior? My, such a dullard, you poor thing. I henceforth na you Birdboy. The bird-brained Birdboy.
f.u.c.k you!
My, are you not satisfied? Then go learn so manners and I shall promote you back to a full human once more. Well then, gokigenyoh, Birdboy-kun.
I walked away with a HO HO HO! when I heard the idiot call out,
A b.i.t.c.h like you will never be worthy of Enjou-san!
So of course I headed right back.
W-What are you doing?
Since he had his guard high, I kicked him in the shin.
OWWWWW!!
Hurt, didnt it. Even the legendary warrior monk Benkei would cry from a shin kick.
Truulysuch a cretinous bird. Worry not. I have no feelings towards Enjou-sama at all. I will not get in the way of your love for him. Society still has much progress to be made towards completely understanding h.o.m.os.e.xuality, but there is no harm in fantasising as you please. Do as you deign appropriate.
Wha-, Im not-
OHOHOHOHOHO, I cant heaar youuu~
With that, I left my ntally challenged kouhai behind.
The Externals in each cla.s.s continued to practice each day.
One ti in the hallway, I caught sight of Wakaba-chan running around covered in so weird cloth, but, eh, dont tell its really so dress-up skit!?
One ti in the hallway, I caught sight of Wakaba-chan running around covered in so weird cloth, but, eh, dont tell its really so dress-up skit!?
Kasou Taishou: Kasou Taishou is a semi-annual show on NTV in which various amateur groups perform short skits, which are rated by a panel of judges. Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever thods of fakingcinematicspecial effects on a live stage. The show is hosted byKinichi HagimotoandShingo Katori. Worldwide, the most famous of these skits, and among the most successful at fake special effects was a skit which is widely known as Matrix ping pong.
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