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Advent Drabbles Day Seven : And Jo
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Author:  Advent Drabblers [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:52 am ]
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On the Mountains of the Grand Alps
In the great Alpinic Village, 
Oberamagau, the famous, 
Of the Passion Play, performing. 
On the banks of yonder river,
Stood Evadne, and called the middles, 
Called the middles of chalet together. 


From her speaking flowed a river, 
Flowed inspiration to Ilonka, 
O'er the precipice plunging downward 
Dived the middles, into trouble. 
Dressing up, and full of mischief, 
Warpainted faces in the meadow 
Danced a whooping pathway round it , 
Whooping warcrys, Indian play. 
Author:  PaulineS [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:11 pm ]
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Certainly a different start to the drabble. Well done. :D :D
Author:  Sugar [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:42 pm ]
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Do we have to have the name in the title? Part of the fun is working out which book it's from / wondering which event will be covered.

Thanks Carolyn. Nice poem
Author:  Carolyn P [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:52 pm ]
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I put it in because it had been requested.
Author:  Advent Drabblers [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:25 pm ]
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PEACE SHATTERED IN PASSION PLAY VILLAGE

The peace of the normally tranquil village of Oberammergau was rudely shattered yesterday, resulting in an emergency session of the Town council last night.

Sources state that a series of yells and whoops disrupted the peace of the village during the course of the afternoon, the noises coming from the meadows running alongside the stream. The sounds were more reminiscent of the Wild West than Bavaria. Indeed, this impression was reinforced when the culprits were identified as a group of schoolgirls masquerading as Red Indians, complete with war paint! Two of the group were Americans, and had been telling stories about the early days, and someone had the brilliant idea of acting out what they’d been told. It seems that they were playing at Captain Smith and Pocohontas, but the results were more than the little hooligans had bargained for. Not only were their faces painted in weird colours, but they were wet, and their clothes were torn to shred, so we have been told. Sources in the hotel say that the paint used was oils, and therefore rather more difficult to remove than they had bargained for. Just deserts, some might say.

Readers may ask where they got the means to decorate themselves in such a way. Enquiries show that the lurid colours came from a paint box belonging to one of the school’s senior pupils that she had left lying about, a carelessness that has been severely paid for. That the incident was chiefly confined to the meadows beside the stream was the saving grace of the whole affair.

This paper is given to understand that the Town Council has issued ASBOs against the girls involved, and has fined the school ‘a substantial sum’ for permitting such behaviour. It was only the good reputation of the school (up to this point), and an undertaking by the mistresses to provide proper an adequate supervision, that prevented the whole party being banned from the performance today. One would hope that discipline in an elite girl’s school would be better than that demonstrated yesterday, and that the outcome will be taken as a warning to the Head and her staff.
Author:  Jennie [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:28 pm ]
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Well, a vastly different take on that little episode, but I can understand the village elders being anti-CS about the disturbance. It was the Passion Play after all.
Author:  Alison H [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:57 pm ]
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Yes, there's a time and a place ... and Oberammergau when the Passion Play was on really wasn't the time or the place for playing at being "Red Indians"!!
Author:  Fiona Mc [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:35 pm ]
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The mistresses did leap on them and it was only by saving grace they were allowed to go and someone did say that didn't mean the people running the play would let them in. Thanks. I'm enjoying wondering which event from the books you'll be using :lol:
Author:  Lesley [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:52 pm ]
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(Translated from the original German - letter from Maria Marani to Gisela Mensch)

Darling Gisela,
I know that Joey was going to ask Madame to speak with you about what happened here at Oberammegau, but I felt I had to write and tell you the true story. People here keep talking about our disgrace, about how much we have 'let down' ourselves, our families and our School - but it wasn't anything like that - it was completely innocent. Let me explain...

That afternoon I joined a number of the others, including Evvy and Corney, in a walk around the village. It was very exciting, we were so looking forward to seeing the Play and fell to discussing how wonderfully traditions like this kept alive events that happened so long ago. We spoke of different events in history - Miss Stewart had told us, during a recent lesson, that a great deal of history was lost because no one thought to record the events and no people kept the history alive. Evvy, or maybe Corney, said that some of the early history of the colonisation of America could have been lost because of that, but that they had learnt from the Red Indian people who passed on many of their legends and events from medicine man to medicine man.

Well we continued to discuss this, going very deeply into ways that a people could preserve their history - I even felt it would be of help with our history exams and that Miss Stewart would be pleased with the way we had taken her lesson to heart. Someone thought that acting out some of Evvy and Corney's stories would be a suitable progression and we made sure we were all nicely in character by using some paints left by Anne Seymour - we didn't know they were oil-paints and it was very irresponsible of her to leave them, wasn't it?

Anyway, after someone got slightly wet falling into a stream we thought we should go back to our hotel and clean up - we intended to speak with Miss Stewart that day - we were sure she would have been extremely proud of the way we had investigated history - unfortunately we ran straight into the Head Girl and the others.

Gisela, I am sure you can see we were completely innocent here - there's no need for you to tell Papa, now, is there?

Maria.
Author:  Sugar [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:15 am ]
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Nice try Maria! :D

Thanks Lesley
Author:  Karoline [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:50 am ]
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:lol: Thanks AD's :lol:
Author:  Smile :) [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:53 pm ]
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I'm not sure she's going to beleive you Maria . . . :lol:
Author:  Kathy_S [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:57 am ]
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Love the Hiawatha :lol:

And I think Margia should send her efforts to editor #2. :mrgreen:

Q: What are ASBOs, anyhow? Not in my dictionaries.... (English or German)
Author:  Lesley [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:48 am ]
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Kathy_S wrote:
Love the Hiawatha :lol:

And I think Margia should send her efforts to editor #2. :mrgreen:

Q: What are ASBOs, anyhow? Not in my dictionaries.... (English or German)


Anti Social Behaviour Order
Author:  Kathy_S [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:14 pm ]
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Thank you, Lesley. That makes a lot more sense in the context than 'store that will deliver groceries,' which is how I first read it. :?
Author:  Vick [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:31 pm ]
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Lovely, thanks ADs :D
Author:  Susan [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:32 pm ]
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Thank you very much.
Author:  Cath V-P [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:21 am ]
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Loved the Hiawatha! :D And Maria's letter was so beautifully disingenuous... :lol:
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