14/06/2013
*Show Me the Love*
Can all the Duba/Sharjah/AbuDhabii Mamas please stand up?
There’s a special event coming up next week and I am SO excited to share it with you.
I’m going to be doing a story time! In Urdu! For your kids! At a local café! and I would LOVE it if you all came!
Come and show me some Mama – love and support. And come, cuz I really want to meet you guys and your children. Also, come because I need everyone in the audience to send me their encouraging, relaxing, zen vibes because I think we all know, keeping calm is not a strength of mine. And finally, come, because if no one shows up it will be so embarrassing to have to read to the café staff, who will only be there cuz they are paid to be.
Have you been to a story time recently? Or any reading? I love readings. The men and women who do readings (whether of their work or someone else’s) sound thoughtful and calm. This is exactly how I would like to sound at my reading next week.
Unfortunately, I am convinced I will end up sounding like how I usually sound when I am nervous/excited. Behold…
Other readers: I am reading in a serene and deliberate manner, my words clearly enunciated and carefully measured.
Me: I’M READING! SO FUN! I’M JUMPING UP AND DOWN JUST SO YOU KNOW I’M TOTALLY IN THIS. WHOOPS AM I TOO MUCH? APOLOGETIC LAUGHTER TEE HEEE HEEEE!
Other readers: I smile politely every now and then at the audience then continue with my skilled oratory performance about this and that. I am unruffled at your silence.
Me: I ASK YOU QUESTIONS AND MORE QUESTIONS WHILE GIGGLING TO SHOW THAT WE ARE ALL HAVING FUN! AND I TALKREALLYFAST! WHEEEE!
Other readers: I’m sounding mellow and sophisticated as I philosophize on deep topics covered in the book I am reading.
Me: NOW I WILL MAKE JOKES SO YOU KNOW I’M FUNNY! LOOK AT MEEEE! SNICKER!
Other readers: I will proceed to wrap this up so we can tranquilly mingle and do a polished meet and greet.
ME: I CAN’T STOP. I LOVE READING AND TALKING AND HUGGING YOU, TRA LA LA!
Okay, so maybe I won’t be so bad. I might actually be quite good. But you won’t find out either way if you don’t come now will you?
Also, making fun of me is fun for me…don’t read too much into it. “Read”, get it? Har, har. But what IS true is that my social skills have gone to whack since I spend all day every day with the little people.
All the better that this reading is for kids. Bless their hearts, THEY won’t mind me chittering away like a bird on crack. They will just consider me one of their own.
