Sunshine Students

This past Monday, there was a special performance at my school. In English it is called, Sunshine Students. The purpose was to give some students from the Senior 1 classes an opportunity to perform in front of the school and to instill confidence. Twenty to thirty students from each class prepared a performance of modeling and dancing. There was a red carpet that acted as a catwalk for students to model normal clothes. Some students still wore their school uniforms, which I thought was unfortunate. But if the students were more comfortable in uniform, I should not complain. Some of the girls wore really short skirts, so of course the boys in the audience paid special attention. The dances were all student choreographed. I could easily tell which student choreographed the dance because everyone else kept messing up. Some of the students started breakdancing. One of my boy students was pretty good.
I really enjoyed myself. I took a lot of pictures of my classes. If I took photos of everyone, I would not be able to recognize who were my students. It was fun seeing my students not in class and enjoying themselves. I hardly recognized my students out of uniform. They looked normal!! However, I must critique what I saw. The students just went through the motions of performing. Their faces looked like they had recently received botox. I only saw one smile! ONE! How can I know that my students are happy when they do not smile?
There was one surprise for the students. The other foreign teacher was asked by one of his classes to dance with them. So he and that class' head teacher waltzed during that class' performance. The crowd went nuts, at least those of the female persuasion. I saw students scrambling for their cameras to get a photo. I tried not to laugh at the students' reactions. I should mention that I was not asked, so I enjoyed myself as an audience member, much more fun.