I forgot to mention when I talked about Hebrew School

Another reason I so love Anessia, besides that she's really annoying but then draws me pictures to apologize for it. . .

So, she was talking about how she had seen a play a couple days before -- a staging of The Secret Garden. And she hated it.

"I thought that it might be good, because I love the book, but the play was not as good as the book."

Since this was in the beginning part of the Hebrew school day when we're just doing art projects and chatting, we asked her what was wrong with the play.

"Well, it was a musical. And I've seen musicals before -- I think I know how they're supposed to work. You have conversations, and you have songs every once in a while. But this one -- you have a song, and then half a conversation, and then another song, and then . . . it was just too much. Also, the piano was too loud so you couldn't hear the singers. . . I saw another play last week that I liked better."

"Oh, what was that?"

"Um, I forget the title. Amid A Summer's Dream or something like that."

"A Midsummer's Night Dream?"

"Yeah, that was it! That was was great! It was so funny! People kept falling in love with the wrong people, and there was this one guy who's head turned into a donkey, and there was this play that was really awful!"

So, that's one reason I like my students, in general. They know the difference between classic literature and mediocre adaptations of classic literature, and also the difference between mediocre musicals and great plays.