We all arrived in Solothurn on Friday 23 evening. My exchange partner is "KIM".SHE WITH HER MOTHER N SISTER HAD ARRIVED AT THE SOLOTHURN RAILWAY STATION TO PICK ME .The family is very nice and they care for me a lot. On the first day she showed me the school. Then next day in the morning we went to the market with her mother. We also saw the church. After a visit to market I went with Kim to the scout camp.Vandana(one of my friend who has come with me in the exchange programme) and Hellen(her exchange partner) were also there. Here in the scouts we found many small children who play different games here. The weekend was a nice way to engage the students in different activities. Then on Sunday we went to "WISSENSTEIN". It‘s a beautiful place on the top of the Kanton, where one can see the whole view of Solothurn. We saw the mountain "Alps" which were covered with the snow. Then we went to "BOTANISCHER GARTEN WEISSENSTEIN"-"JURAPFLANZEN".It is a botanical garden. Then we came back and saw a documentary film "YOUNG AT HEART".It was about the old aged people who have made their own band and they perform the different shows at different places despite facing day to day problems of their life.$(Like one had a neurological problem, but he relaxes himself by singing).It was a good film.
The next day was school. Here we have been given a timetable and according to that we go in our respective classes. The classes are very different from that in India. Here the teacher teaches using "projectors" that seldom occurs in our system. Day before yesterday, we went to theatre to watch the play "LEONCE UND LENA".It was a modern play in German language.. The story dated back to a very old time of princely empire. It was about that the two people wanted to choose their life partners on their own ,but they are not allowed to do so.. The 2 wish to create an ideal world where one does not need to work, where there is only love. The message of the play could be depicted in some other way also, like I think there was no need to show the liplock n other scenes of smooching. Well, as our teacher says that it was one of the way to attract the people to the play. But I must say that the acting was really good and play was able to convey their message to the viewers.
Yesterday, we went to see the English play-"A CAT ON THE HOT TIN ROOF".Our English teacher had already explained the story: The central character of the play was "Maggi" who is called "cat" by her husband. Her life is completely messed up because firstly she wants to have children and to her misery ,her husband doesn‘t love her. Her father in -law has cancer which neither he knows nor his wife. Maggi has to tell the truth of her father in-law to her mother in-law, who is a hard stuff to deal with. Then there is fight going on between Maggi and her sister in-law for the land which they will get after their father in -law‘s death. And if one reads in between the lines of the novel, one finds that the star point of Maggi‘s misery is that her husband is a gay who had relationship with his own bestfriend-"Skipper" and he always has a feeling of guilt that he was not able to save Skipper..
This feeling of guilt was actually sinking him deep inside and that‘s why he turned out to be an alcoholic. Well, the only way for the Maggi to be out of this entangled life was that ,as her husband says -"that she must take a high jump and be out of this whole chaos.
The title of this poem is absolutely correct because Maggi is tip-toeing on her life in the same way as one does when they place their feet on a hot roof.
The acting by the actors was very good. It was a nice play.
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