The classes were awesome, I majored in Art, apparently my focus was the theatre, I'd love to sing, dance and act.so I applied and wrote an apptitude test and lucky for me I was admitted.
Although most of the students were white, and the black students I met were black Americans.looked like I was the only Nigerian, my biological parents must have really been cold hearted and angry at my existence to ship me down here at a tender age, despite the numerous orphanage homes in Nigeria."hmm" what manner of Wickedness, did I cause them so much pain that they wanted to have nothing to do with me?
Well, who cares my Foster parents were doing a great job and I loved them for that.
"Oops, the bell just rang, I guess it's actually time for another lecture.I quickly moved out of the cafe and ran to the venue of the lecture.
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Yeah, I sat down on my sit like one who's been waiting at the substation.
Apparently, I was at acting school, apart from going to college, mum and dad enrolled me in an acting school in other to get me better at my acting proffession cause uhmmm currently I featured in some tv plays.that's why mum and dad decided to enroll me in an acting school so I could get better, no kidding I loved it, the whole idea was fantastic
"Oops! Thinking mood deactivated, director Mickey just stepped in".trust me, that was not his real name, he just made us call him Director mickey cause he thought it suited his proffession and severally I had heard the principal call him Nicholas."hahaha"Director mickey was indeed a character.
I moved from the backsit to the front sit and joined the rest 50 of us, yeah, we were 50 in beginners class.
" sorry I came late, was stuck in traffic, but am here now so all the cast for cinderella off you sits and out the stage, now!".
Uhmm turns out I was given the role of cinderella not that I wanted it or something but director Mickey gave me anyway, he was not just our director, but he held a ph.d in theatre art and he taught drama at two different colleges, he was a 5.7 inch, in his early thirties and he was a real deal, though he wasn't married.he always saw acting as his family, relative, friends, neighbour, colleague and etc.
Apparently he always said that life is a stage where we all get to act our roles and the day we exit the stage, it simply means were dead."hahaha" what a mickey's theory
"Cinderella ,can you please knock you self out of the fake world and join us living beigns on stage"
His words invaded my thoughts and made me stumble a little on my feet, immediately after he uttered his last words I ran towards the stage and stood there like a tree.
"Glory Glory Glory, now that our cindy is back to life,we shall resume.Now for the next scene from where we stopped on monday, fairy god mother appears to cindy and encourages her to go for the ball in other to meet the prince.alright, let me get that scene now"
Urgh!!the ball, the prince, my fairy god mother, my step sisters, my step mother, and my friends.."yuck" this whole cinderella crap . Was becoming too boring and too stereotyped for my liking.well who are my in the world of Director Mickey? He'd skin me alive if I dared to object.
Apparently we ran the play from T.O.P
After that we discussed a little about the play, our other playlets, our costumes, the setting, the lightening effect, back stage crew ,the sales of ticket, the number of people we were expecting, and the date of the event, seconds later closed.Just as I Was about exiting the hall,I heard something.
"Hey!"
I turned my head to my left side in other to spot the owner of the voice and there I saw a white girl in her early twenties smiling at me.oh my God, I really didn't like them that much that's why I never mingled, they were too white and off for me, and I was quite not white and it was awesome for me.without locking my eyes with hers I responded
"Hey!" Her smile expanded and touched her eyes, then she said
"That's how you wanna play? Well I can't blame you ur a natural, my name is victoria but friends call me Tori, what about you?"
Who wants to know her name or what friend's called her?well am glad we were at acting school and I could also act so let the acting begin.
"Okay," I nodded my head to say as I walked out of the hall, suddenly the voice halts me again, and I turned around to listen.
"Are you just gonna walk away? Aren't you gonna tell me your name?"
I realise a heavy sigh and walk towards her
"Kimberly, my name is Kimberly
.my parents call me kim"I turned around and walked away, this time it was for good.
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"Urgh!! Mum it was such an exausting day" I said while sitting on the dinning table and eating some fresh cookies which mum baked.
"Common kim its only been three months since you started out at acting school and within this three month you've featured in some local tv play, apparently your making progress .so embrace it"mum smiled after the pep talk.
"No doubt about the progress shit, but what about music? I would really love to sing, ain't that part of what my course is all about anyway?mum laughed out loud , she walked out of her sit, walked towards the deep freezer and brought out a bottle of youghurt and placed it on the table beside my cookies, then she said.
"Kim, you can easily join the choir if you wanna sing, they do great music and they would train you well, that's a
good foundation to begin at, if you want"
Well mum could be right, the choir would make a beautiful foundation, I guess I'd give it a try.
"Alright mum,I'll see what I can do"
Mum nodded in support and glanced at her wrist watch, then she used her left hand to pull her purse close to herself and gave me the I have to go look.
Apparently mum was a chef, she owned a big restaurant in town and its been running for 25 years, mum only came home to pick up her atm card in other to withdrawl money for tonight's birthday party, someone was throwing a party at mum's restaurant tonight and mum needed to purchase some pastries and food ingredients .
Turned out that aside from cooking mum was a cake boss, and a pastry lord. So a fat some of money had been given to her to work out the night good, and she was running late so I said
"Can I come with you? Dad's not gonna be home till evening and it's really gonna be boring sitting in this mansion alone and doing nothing"
Mum smiled and approved my request.
I put the yoghurt and the cookies in a bag, cleaned up the table and joined mum in the car.
And off to the mall we went.
