Reading Dr. Seuss

I don't know if I should include this since it isn't really drama-related, but I'm going to twist it so it will be important. We went to Westhoff today to read Dr. Seuss books to the elementary school kids in order to promote Seussical. This has taught me how important it is to connect with people and how different it is to experience something where the audience randomly interjects with words I have sometimes never heard of. Yea, that was my attempt to twist it into something important. I don't think it worked. But anyways, this was really fun. I was partnered with Cindy and she read And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street and I read The Sneetches. We got these really awesome Cat in the Hat hats. The tall red and white striped ones? Yea. Wish we could keep them. Cindy and I read to fourth graders and then kindergarteners. Pretty big age difference. The fourth graders were significantly more quiet and paid more attention. Sidenote: We knew a lot of them from taekwondo do it was even more fun. The kindergarteners were so much funnier though because this one kid read all of the books so he kept trying to read it before we did, which didn't really work because he forgot a lot of it. They were so cuuuute. Seriously. My reading wasn't especially entertaining though, so I think this makes me realize how difficult the narrator's job is. The narrator needs to make boring nothing seem interesting. Most of the time it's boring nothing anyways.