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"The students make their own lunches here We keep a variety of erators There's a microwave and a cooker to prepare soups and tea, if you like After a while you'll see that we're all a little family?'

The next two rooms were classroo and studying The Taht brown--haired woman of about thirty walked about the roo to the recitation Every once in a while, she would stop the reader and ask him or her to interpret what he had read, how it should be acted and what the reactions of the other perfore at that time should be

"Every student," Mr MacWaine whispered, "beco of a director as well as an actor Here we believe the two are intertwined That's Mrs Winecoup who also teaches the dra in about fifteen minutes?' HeI felt the butterflies circling my heart

We followed the hallway to another stairhich brought us to the dance studio on the second landing Mr MacWaine explained how they had knocked doalls to create it A tall, h ballet exercises We watched him for a while

"That's Philip Roder," Mr MacWaine said in a loud whisper "He's already performed in a production of The Student Prince in Arown boy froed foryou need purchased ahead of tihts, dancing shoes, books and accessories?'

"Oh Thank you"

"You have quite a benefactor in Mrs Hudson," he said raising his eyebrows

"I know"

On the way down the stairs, we passed the elocution class I saw Leslie and Catherine and two other girls, one very tall with strawberry blond hair and the other sli sentences as the teacher, a dark-haired er-looking boys as well

"Hon cow," Mr MacWaine kidded "Words are our tools here," he explained

When we returned to his office, he gave s and my class schedule After the drama-speech class, I was to report to Professor Wilheim ould audition my voice and then after lunch I was to see a Mrs Vander skills

"That e'll know exactly where to start with you," he explained He welcoain, checked his watch and told o to my first class "Good luck," he offered

After seeing so here I felt like someone ould soon be tested and discovered to be a fraud To papers and I'd be on a plane heading back to the States I almost wished it would happen That's how nervous I was In schools for perfor you, evaluating you, judging andyou It was impossible in such small classes to disappear into the ork like so many students did in the public school I had attended I knew students back in DC whose teachers didn't know their na the like this and going to school in the ghetto, I thought

Leslie and Catherine were already in the classrooirls I had seen in the elocution class were seated behind them They turned to look as I entered