October is time for fun. Loads of fun. One bad thing about Oct is the Sports Day. Otherwise, it's great. Yesterday, we celebrated our school carnival, 'Anand Matsuri'. Every year in Oct., we put up stalls for fund-raising and some students perform something.
This time, we, the higher graders thought of doing something 'different' and we ended up playing a haunted house. First the boys were all against us, saying that we won't earn profit. Finally, we girls had to wield our power over them and establish dictatorship to make them stick to our plan.
Let me tell you, the prep was done in just 1 week and we were all hyper-hyper-tensed. That is, only the girls. Nevertheless, we managed to influence the boys and they also were tensed. Everybody was tensed. Chaos and mayhem ruled.
Reasons:
* The venue kept changing. We planned the design for around 4 or 5 rooms before we ended up in a big, eerie dungeon behind the stage.
*Girls were managing the whole affair with the exception of few sensible boys. Lack of communication between us.
*No matter where we did, we had to cover the windows and block out all the sources of light. It was a titanic task.
*'Hey I don't wanna be a Kappa!' 'You are insane. we can't do that' 'See! All you do is hush me up and never listen to me!' (Numerous fights.)
*In the end, when we finally decided the venue, we all ran out of ideas.
*Lack of props when the plan was finally fixed.
Despite all these confusion, we managed to make our Haunted House a blast and made a history. One day before the carnival, we were all stuck up in that dungeon, bickering and making faces. I stayed in school for around 13 hours to help doing the preps.
So, what was in that haunted house?? The theme: to complete the quest.
The Quest: to kill the Satan who had conquered Earth.
So, we had a tour guide (me), witch, a dead man, wizard, the Satan, a dracula and several other ghosts. We successfully scared almost everyone but the big kids who knew it was just us. Some small kids were really really freaked out that we had to switch on the lights.
This is how we looked:
Boys looked like this:
Most of them wore masks for they couldn't be naturally scary like us gals ;)
when we finished scaring the last group of customers we were dead tired. My throat was on fire and our legs would have snapped into two. I am telling you, setting up a haunted house and playing ghosts are really tough. You need to have high level of patience when the same kid comes in for the fifth time and still gets freaked out and screams.
There, there, the devilishly charming gals ;)
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