On the drive to school this morning I asked April how she had slept. 'Well, not so good'. She then slowly opened up and told me about her bad dream. A little background first: yesterday our piano instructor, Larisa Ivanovna, dropped by to give the younger girls their weekly lesson. April usually forgets to practice, and somehow she's always oblivious of her upcoming lesson, so when the day inevitably arrives it's always a rude awakening.
And now the dream... April is in the middle of a tedious piano lesson, working on some classical piece, when all of a sudden Larisa Ivanovna turns into a hideous monster with the body of a whale and 5 dragon heads. The heads are all screaming things like 'Did you practice at all, April!?', 'On the upbeat, on the upbeat I said!', 'And which piece is your left hand playing?' 'This is Mozart, not ragtime!'
A bit later in the dream April is completing her homework for school and is on the last page of problem sets. She finishes the last problem but suddenly out of nowhere a few more pages appear. She completes these, too, but still more pages materialize. Then she hears an awful noise from on high and looks up to see her school teacher, Elena Evgenievna, riding the piano teacher monster through the sky and screaming at the top of her lungs 'Did you do your homework, April?!!'
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April, is your homework done yet?
ReplyDeleteOoh, this made me feel bad. I always hated it when people said things regarding "how these are the best years of your life". As April's dreams prove, it ain't ever easy!
ReplyDeleteI'm still having bad dreams about homework- and Mom and Dad, 67, and 71, respectively, do too!
Geneva
Wow, powerful dreams - you should write them down more, April. They might make good material someday for a book. Love, Babushka
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