I wasn’t feeling well. I had a fever. We waited for almost an hour for a silly acrobatic show to start. While waiting, I wrote a poem. Karen M. enjoyed reading it, for it’s not the oh-so-deep type that I used to write and it has witty rhymes. What a nice way to kill time!
Finally, after almost an hour, the show started. The acrobats formed death-defying stunts that ordinary persons like you and me couldn’t do. There was the so-called telescope formation, the “rolling ball” formation, etc. But I wasn’t in the mood to jeer and laugh. In contrast, the crowd was so excited and astounded. They were really enjoying themselves. How did I know? Well, I heard girls and gays at my back giggling over the men with big bodies. They were mesmerizedand they took the effort to memorize some of the names of those guys. I heard them saying, “Ah… Si Allan pala yun!” “Uy!!! Ang gwapo! ^_^ Aayyyy!!! Ang pangit nung iba! Di ko type! >:-( ” When the acrobats did some sort of tumbling in slow motion, they said, “Ang smooth! Ang cute!” But you should have seen our adviser’s constant smiling. It’s a phenomenon.
The clown kept on sticking out his tongue. He even blew kisses and ran after beautiful girls. He asked some gutsy volunteers from the audience to join him in doing a trick – the revolving basketball on the thumb! In that case, it should have been Ma’am Borje or Sir Abat because of popular demand. Anyway, he crowd cheered for the funny clown by doing the hand moves of “the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!” But when he started boasting and asking us if he can also do stunts even if he can’t, we requited him by saying a plain “hindi!” I also did my favorite “Whatever, yaya!” sign and the “Yaya, you’re such a loser!” sign.
There was a man who was walking on a rope who danced and shook his butt. There was a graceful gymnast who did a split and flexed with her hoolahoop. There was a performer who placed about ten chairs atop each other There was a basketball game wherein the acrobats in green were called to represent our school while the men in blue would represent the acrobatics team.
Amazed? Yes. Felt fear for the performers? Of course. As much as a dash of pepper. Happy? A little bit. By 8%.
Maybe I’ll be fine tomorrow. Hopefully. [:
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