Purim this year came at the dawn of March, with the warm sunshine hinting that Spring is just around the corner. Whilst last year Purim coincided with the weekend, this year it fell early in the schoolweek, so there were no excuses for our school to deny us the celebrations we deserved.
Approaching the bus stop this morning, instead of seeing the regular mass of black and blue that are the dull colours of our school's uniform, I was greeted by the colourful fluorescence of creativity, for almost every student had abandoned their normal clothing and donned costumes of all shape and size, merging to form a dancing rainbow on the pavement.
During the bus ride, the walk into school, and scaling the two flights of steps to my homeroom, I saw seven Superwomen, two Batgirls, three Catwomen, a Clark Kent, Mr. Tickle, the Phantom of the Opera, a Barbie Doll, two pirates, Fonejacker, Red Bull, three leprauchauns, four Snow Whites, a Jedi and Mrs. Edward Cullen, to mention but a few.
Because our school insists on religously following the Jewish mitzvahs ((see what I did there?? :P)), my entire year ten group gathered in the main hall at 9:30 to hear the tale of how Esther the Jew and her Uncle Mordy saved the day. With all the superheroes in school today, I wonder why none thought to come as SuperJew??
The second session of the day was what made this year truly the greatest Purim of my life. The crowd filtered slowly towards the school's theatre, where we were presented with the best "magic" show that was ever toured the earth. Some of you may have heard of Stevie Starr The Great Regurgitator, who, as vomitous as it may sound, managed to swallow everything from live fish and numbered coins to sugar and billiard balls, and bring them back up again in whatever order we requested ((and in the case of the sugar, bone dry!!)) The crowd oohed and ahhed at his spectacular tricks, one of which involved swallowing a locked padlock, the key and a ring, and bringing them back up with the ring locked on the padlock. It seems impossible for a human oesophagous to accomodate a number eight pool ball, but Stevie managed to do this without injuring himself in any way ((although his broken/missing teeth sported enough evidence of how the tricks could go wrong)). A more impressive act was one where he swallowed ten thumbtacks attached to a very strong magnet, and bring the magnet back up with as many tacks attached to it as the audience requested. Some other tricks involved encapsulating small fish in film canisters, capturing cigarette smoke in a soap bubble, even swallowing butane gas and releasing it onto a lit lighter ((hence the pyrotechnics mentioned above)).
After school a few friends ((dressed collectively as the Spice Girls)) and I were invited back to our friend's house for a Spice Girls themed party, where we watched the hilariously awful film, of course entitled Spice Girls. We laughed at their awful acting and the hysterical plotline that makes fun of itself, and altogether had a wonderful time.
I hope that you, dear readers, had as eventful a day as I did, or, if you're not Jewish, then at least you had an interesting one.
Chag Purim Sameach!!
Katie J.
Approaching the bus stop this morning, instead of seeing the regular mass of black and blue that are the dull colours of our school's uniform, I was greeted by the colourful fluorescence of creativity, for almost every student had abandoned their normal clothing and donned costumes of all shape and size, merging to form a dancing rainbow on the pavement.
During the bus ride, the walk into school, and scaling the two flights of steps to my homeroom, I saw seven Superwomen, two Batgirls, three Catwomen, a Clark Kent, Mr. Tickle, the Phantom of the Opera, a Barbie Doll, two pirates, Fonejacker, Red Bull, three leprauchauns, four Snow Whites, a Jedi and Mrs. Edward Cullen, to mention but a few.
Because our school insists on religously following the Jewish mitzvahs ((see what I did there?? :P)), my entire year ten group gathered in the main hall at 9:30 to hear the tale of how Esther the Jew and her Uncle Mordy saved the day. With all the superheroes in school today, I wonder why none thought to come as SuperJew??
The second session of the day was what made this year truly the greatest Purim of my life. The crowd filtered slowly towards the school's theatre, where we were presented with the best "magic" show that was ever toured the earth. Some of you may have heard of Stevie Starr The Great Regurgitator, who, as vomitous as it may sound, managed to swallow everything from live fish and numbered coins to sugar and billiard balls, and bring them back up again in whatever order we requested ((and in the case of the sugar, bone dry!!)) The crowd oohed and ahhed at his spectacular tricks, one of which involved swallowing a locked padlock, the key and a ring, and bringing them back up with the ring locked on the padlock. It seems impossible for a human oesophagous to accomodate a number eight pool ball, but Stevie managed to do this without injuring himself in any way ((although his broken/missing teeth sported enough evidence of how the tricks could go wrong)). A more impressive act was one where he swallowed ten thumbtacks attached to a very strong magnet, and bring the magnet back up with as many tacks attached to it as the audience requested. Some other tricks involved encapsulating small fish in film canisters, capturing cigarette smoke in a soap bubble, even swallowing butane gas and releasing it onto a lit lighter ((hence the pyrotechnics mentioned above)).
After school a few friends ((dressed collectively as the Spice Girls)) and I were invited back to our friend's house for a Spice Girls themed party, where we watched the hilariously awful film, of course entitled Spice Girls. We laughed at their awful acting and the hysterical plotline that makes fun of itself, and altogether had a wonderful time.
I hope that you, dear readers, had as eventful a day as I did, or, if you're not Jewish, then at least you had an interesting one.
Chag Purim Sameach!!
Katie J.
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