This weekend, my class has an opportunity to do a short performance in a small orphanage in Chicago. The owner of the orphanage is an old friend of our teacher back when he was in college. To him, a small yet very rare stage performance is a special event that can cheer up the children. On the other hand, we all are very pleased to be given an opportunity for a stage performance and to be able to do a good deed for the children in a way that we can.
Since it is too late to perform any of Christmas story by now, we decided to write a simple play to be performed for the children. The story is about animal society, more or less similar to that in “Horton Hears A Who” story, just without the Whoville part. The story was done since last month, and we’ve been practicing to perform it during holiday. Right now, we are all set with the play and just need to prepare our trip there.
Considering the props and the remote location of the orphanage, we chose to travel by cars. There will be 8 of us in total, so we have two cars with 5 persons capacity each ready to take us in our trip, Angela’s Toyota Camry and my Prius.
Since it is a quite long trip there, I and Angela have gathered some necessary information about auto repair shops. We have noted down all the auto shops between New York and Chicago, just incase. Of course, we also noted down some Chicago auto repair shops with that. I have some uncomfortable experiences with check engine light during interstate trips so I will make sure that everything will be going just fine this time.
Now, I already imagine the smiles of the little faces we will see when we get there. No doubt it will be one of my memorable performances in my life.