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you believe that girl!
I told her I don’t even want to THINK about what my brain looks like, thank you very much. This sent the others into shrieks of laughter for some reason.
Oops, I nearly forgot to tell you about our really cool ecology outfits. (That’s most unlike me!!) We’d decided it would be loads more impressive if we dressed the same. Identical white T-shirts, blue denim jeans and trainers. Guess who suggested printing funky Eco messages on the T-shirts?
Moi
, naturally!
We put THINK GLOBALLY – ACT LOCALLY across the front, because that’s become like our personal Eco motto. You’ll see why in a minute.
We were going to try to make ourselves look like real eco-warriors. But Kenny worried that it would look like we were taking the mick. There was also this TINY body-piercing problem! Plus, with the Sleepover Club’s rather sad dependency on flush toilets and hair conditioner, it seemed a bit dishonest to pass ourselves off as hardcore protesters.
On the other hand, we wanted to show that even if we WERE softies, we were still totally on the side of, you know, Nature.
Eventually Rosie came up with the cute idea of painting little flowers on our cheeks. Mine are daisies. Hope they’re not TOO wonky. Lyndz did them. And I don’t have to tell you what happened to her right in the middle, do I? That’s right. A MAJOR attack of the H-word!!
Did you notice I’ve been avoiding mentioning a certain Zone? Well, as it turned out, the Media Zone was actually OK. I think I’d maybe give it – six out of ten?
Regina Hill made an excellent silent movie star. Actually, if she didn’t hang around with the M&Ms, I’d probably think she was cool! She was supposed to be some actress called Mary Pickford. (No, I hadn’t heard of her either. But she must have worn oodles of eye make-up!) But I can’t say I was impressed with boring old Alana Banana as Charlie Chaplin (though she does have rather bandy legs!
Miaow
!).
Being silent movie stars, Alana and Regina weren’t supposed to talk. Instead they held up cards with silent movie captions on, like: “Untie me! I hear the train coming down the track!” I think that’s such a wicked idea, don’t you?
But in all truthfulness (and I’m not being horrible here), we really couldn’t tell WHO the M&Ms were meant to be. In the end we had to ask. Would you believe, Laurel and Hardy?
Kenny fell about when we told her. “Those two are such little stick insects, they look more like Laurel and Laurel!” she cackled.
Personally, I thought we could afford to ease up on the M&Ms for an hour or two. You see, even though no teachers gave us ANY help with our zone whatsoever, just about everyone who saw it was
madly
impressed. In fact, I heard one lady say our work was in a totally different league!
So we’d won, hadn’t we? Game, set and match! Poor old Laurel and Laurel were practically spitting with envy.
Tell you what. Why don’t I give you your very own private tour round our Ecology Zone? I’m serious. You can be our star guest!
Just shut your eyes and duck under the velvet curtain.
Now open your eyes again. Aaah, isn’t it the loveliest thing?
Do you like those twinkly stars and planets hanging from the ceiling? Rosie and Lyndz did them. And don’t you LURVE how we divided up the space into smaller areas inside? Oops, don’t peek at the others yet! The first one is meant to represent the desert, right? Sand, cacti, that kind of thing. I think we went a bit overboard with the house plants in the jungle bit. I mean, OK, a jungle is meant to be, like, bursting with plants, but this is ridiculous!
It took forever to make those blossoms. They look dead real though, don’t they? The frog sounds and monkey calls were my idea. Atmospheric or what! Andy’s such a sweetheart. He taped loads of jungle sounds for us, off one of his wildlife videos.
The next bit gave us a BIG headache. In case you wondered, it’s meant to be the ocean. Oh, you guessed.
I told her I don’t even want to THINK about what my brain looks like, thank you very much. This sent the others into shrieks of laughter for some reason.
Oops, I nearly forgot to tell you about our really cool ecology outfits. (That’s most unlike me!!) We’d decided it would be loads more impressive if we dressed the same. Identical white T-shirts, blue denim jeans and trainers. Guess who suggested printing funky Eco messages on the T-shirts?
Moi
, naturally!
We put THINK GLOBALLY – ACT LOCALLY across the front, because that’s become like our personal Eco motto. You’ll see why in a minute.
We were going to try to make ourselves look like real eco-warriors. But Kenny worried that it would look like we were taking the mick. There was also this TINY body-piercing problem! Plus, with the Sleepover Club’s rather sad dependency on flush toilets and hair conditioner, it seemed a bit dishonest to pass ourselves off as hardcore protesters.
On the other hand, we wanted to show that even if we WERE softies, we were still totally on the side of, you know, Nature.
Eventually Rosie came up with the cute idea of painting little flowers on our cheeks. Mine are daisies. Hope they’re not TOO wonky. Lyndz did them. And I don’t have to tell you what happened to her right in the middle, do I? That’s right. A MAJOR attack of the H-word!!
Did you notice I’ve been avoiding mentioning a certain Zone? Well, as it turned out, the Media Zone was actually OK. I think I’d maybe give it – six out of ten?
Regina Hill made an excellent silent movie star. Actually, if she didn’t hang around with the M&Ms, I’d probably think she was cool! She was supposed to be some actress called Mary Pickford. (No, I hadn’t heard of her either. But she must have worn oodles of eye make-up!) But I can’t say I was impressed with boring old Alana Banana as Charlie Chaplin (though she does have rather bandy legs!
Miaow
!).
Being silent movie stars, Alana and Regina weren’t supposed to talk. Instead they held up cards with silent movie captions on, like: “Untie me! I hear the train coming down the track!” I think that’s such a wicked idea, don’t you?
But in all truthfulness (and I’m not being horrible here), we really couldn’t tell WHO the M&Ms were meant to be. In the end we had to ask. Would you believe, Laurel and Hardy?
Kenny fell about when we told her. “Those two are such little stick insects, they look more like Laurel and Laurel!” she cackled.
Personally, I thought we could afford to ease up on the M&Ms for an hour or two. You see, even though no teachers gave us ANY help with our zone whatsoever, just about everyone who saw it was
madly
impressed. In fact, I heard one lady say our work was in a totally different league!
So we’d won, hadn’t we? Game, set and match! Poor old Laurel and Laurel were practically spitting with envy.
Tell you what. Why don’t I give you your very own private tour round our Ecology Zone? I’m serious. You can be our star guest!
Just shut your eyes and duck under the velvet curtain.
Now open your eyes again. Aaah, isn’t it the loveliest thing?
Do you like those twinkly stars and planets hanging from the ceiling? Rosie and Lyndz did them. And don’t you LURVE how we divided up the space into smaller areas inside? Oops, don’t peek at the others yet! The first one is meant to represent the desert, right? Sand, cacti, that kind of thing. I think we went a bit overboard with the house plants in the jungle bit. I mean, OK, a jungle is meant to be, like, bursting with plants, but this is ridiculous!
It took forever to make those blossoms. They look dead real though, don’t they? The frog sounds and monkey calls were my idea. Atmospheric or what! Andy’s such a sweetheart. He taped loads of jungle sounds for us, off one of his wildlife videos.
The next bit gave us a BIG headache. In case you wondered, it’s meant to be the ocean. Oh, you guessed.
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