There\u2019s this guy at school who\u2019s a little bit different. There\u2019s no obvious disability but I\u2019m pretty sure there\u2019s something wrong with him. I think he\u2019s from India and he\u2019s probably 17 or so but he dresses like a grown man and has a haircut like Bob Martin and the very strange thing about him is that he talks to people about the same, random things over and over and thinks it hilarious. And once he learns your name, he\u2019ll use it five times in one sentence. And I\u2019m not exaggerating for effect. In the mornings I\u2019ll go in to school and he\u2019ll be waiting to intercept me in the corridor. My last three mornings have gone something like this:<\/p>\n
Boy: Hi Erin! Erin, so Erin, did you have a good night Erin? Erin, do you like cricket Erin?
\nMe: Not really Anise (for the one millionth time)
\nBoy: Really Erin? Oh\u2026 But did you hear about the cricket between India and Pakistan Erin? Erin, did you know that there\u2019s been a war in Pakistan? You know how they\u2019ve been fighting and there was one guy that was killed with a razor? Yeah *laughs* some guy got killed with a razor Erin, isn\u2019t that silly Erin?<\/p>\n
You can just see his mind turning over going, \u2018what can I talk about next to stop this person from going away??!\u2019 Other conversation topics include \u2018Wheel a fortune\u2019 which usually comes out when he\u2019s in a good mood \u201cAnd then he said *laughs* can I have an I for Irene? *laughs*\u201d I\u2019m yet to understand the joke but apparently it\u2019s been going on for years so I figure there\u2019s not much hope.<\/p>\n
Although everyone humours him, I don\u2019t think he really has any friends. I try to be nice to him. I usually have a bit of a chat with him, it\u2019s sad that he seems to be so desperate for human interaction. But now it\u2019s going a bit too far. I\u2019ve seen him outside my car a couple of times now and he\u2019s taken to yelling out to me from the other side of the schoolyard. What\u2019s more, he\u2019s named one of his chickens after me. He has three chickens, one of them is called Laura Croft, one is called Jean Pierre and the other is just Erin (I don\u2019t think he knows my last name yet and I really hope he doesn\u2019t know where I live.)<\/p>\n
We ran our first session of \u2018Drama Club\u2019 today. Basically, as part of our Theatre Arts course we have to do an individual project, like direct a play or something so we\u2019ve roped in some younger, unsuspecting students to perform for us… Today we were trying to get them to play space jump which is like, the easiest theatre game IN THE WORLD and it was impossible. Why do children have no imagination these days?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m really upset because I just lost the disc that had my already overdue History essay on it\u2026 Bah! Humbug\u2026<\/p>\n
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