Tuesday, February 6

Diorama masonry anxiety

I am at a rehearsal for the end 0f quarter art presentation near a campfire. While the person before me presents their small diorama of a Native American lodge and does an interpretive dance dressed as a maroon and gold eagle, I light a fire out of small twigs and bits of dried grass in the tiny barbecue in my diorama. When it is my turn I present the diorama and bake a tiny piece of ethnic food on the barbecue.
After the presentation I am in the car with my mom and brother, and I thank my brother for letting me use his diorama for the presentation while I finish mine. I read the thick brochure of guidelines for the project and find a few lines in tiny print that say the lodge must be decorated in the tribe colors of maroon and gold, and the barbecue must be constructed of stone, and produce three different types of food from three areas for the judges. This means I will have to completely reconstruct my entire diorama by tomorrow, and I need to go forage for special supplies.
Anna, Kathryn, and I all dress up in fancy dresses and high heels for our foraging adventure and at 8 pm head out for an all night adventure. To get our lodge-building supplies we must follow a path through a muddy forest enclosed in a tunnel under a school building. It takes me a long time to find the appropriate stones for the masonry of the barbecue, and on the way back I slip in the mud and lose most of them.
Everyone else turns in their finished diorama, and I must explain to Shirley that I haven't completed my final project again.

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