Really busy, but I had to take the time to share this...

I just got a letter from one of the students who saw Mella Mella when we were on tour.

(Incidentally, it was a girl from one of the two best stops on the tour: one is Batshaw out in Prevost, and the other is the Alexander von Humboldt School. I always love that school. They served us freshly brewed cappucino. How civilized. Batshaw feeds us awesome West Indian food. But it's not about the stuff the give us, it's just that the students are sweet and affectionate and have great hearts, and the staff don't treat us like twelve-year-old delinquents. Anyway.)

Her letter, it's on lined paper written with multicoloured pens, glitter and stickers. She then glued the lined paper onto a blue and yellow construction paper frame. I wish I could colour-scan it, you have to see this because it's the nicest pick-me-up ever. I was feeling cranky, and this just cheered me right up:

Dear Tamara,

I find you act very well. It was cool when you changed from this one character to the Nanga. The play was fantastic! I loved it! I find at the end when we got to ask questions, you were funny. I would also like to lake part in the Black Theater Workshop. (She had written when I'm older, but cut and pasted a strip of white paper to cover that up.)
Hope we see you next year with a great play like this one.

P.S. You'r COOL!!! (She made a google-eyed happy face with the two OO's in cool.)

Gloria, 5th grade.

There it is: A little German girl getting into African folklore and feminism. I love theatre. I am so doing the right thing with my life.