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Chapter 2 - An unpleasant shower (1)

The Band inaugurating

ELPHI

As you remember, i have been teaching in the middle of the jungle, because the tsunami destroyed my school. But todayeverything is forgotten: the new school is ready!

MAKI

Miss Elphi, everything is so new and beautiful!

MONKITO

Can we go inside?

ELPHI

Not yet, not yet. We have to wait until Mr. Deer, the Regional Director, inaugurates it officially. He will be here any time now. Actually, there he is!

MR. DEER

Ladies and gentlemen, children… we are very proud to inaugurate this wonderful school, much better than the former one. We have transformed the tsunami tragedy into new hope for the future!

ELPHI

(WHISPERING) Where is Monkito?

MAKI

(WHISPERING) I don’t know, Miss Elphi.

MR. DEER

We must proudly remember that it was rebuilt with the effort and solidarity of all the animals in the local jungle and beyond! So I will nowl proceed to cut the ribbon as a symbol that the school is officially open. The scissors, please.

ELPHI

I don’t know where they are, Sir, I left them over that table.

BINDU

(WHISPERING) Miss Elphi, Monkito took them to cut some bananas from the tree.

ELPHI

Will a knife serve the purpose, Mr. Deer?