I t’s understandable really how after the disastrous flop of the speech program we were reluctant to continue with Mrs. Levison’s grand plans. And yet somehow though I still can’t work out how she did it I found myself standing on the stage at assembly today reading stories out loud titled: If I didn’t care what people thought…
Mrs. Levison made a long introductory speech about all the effort my friends and I put into this program which made me cringe. (Bad enough everyone thought it was pathetic did we also have to make it sound like I’d put my heart and soul into it? How positively AWKWARD!) But as you probably get by now when Mrs. L. is on her skateboard the best thing to do is just move out the way fast. No stopping her.
“And now Libby is going to read out some of your most fantabulous submissions ” she enthused.
So there I was standing with a box of papers holding a microphone in front of a sea of faces. Gulp. Dassi Sorele and Bruchi all looked slightly amused in their front-row seats and my cousin Malki was giving me the thumbs up Sunday’s misdemeanors apparently forgotten. Thank Heavens for that I thought.
