Play preparation

On Saturday, I went to market with S and H and bought a lot of things for the play, curtain material, jewellery for participants, ropes for curtains, pins, safety pins etc etc. I really do not want to go and ask As for anything even as small a thing as pins and being snarled at with a straight forward "No" as if I were asking for a million dollar loan.

I arranged for Ndn, (who is an extra teacher who is free to go to any class wherever she is needed) to be with my class with Cl so that I could do other works like painting stitching etc for the play. Then the next day Stf came to me to say that I cannot have Ndn with me because she needs her to help her make children's Christmas presents for their parents.
I felt bad but politely agreed because luckily I had finished major bulk of my work. I wonder what sort of teachers are these who cannot judge which work is more important. This stupid Stf thinks making Christmas presents is more important than the event itself; she already has An with her to help her make those damn presents and besides she stays in the school till 5 pm and even some of her children stay just as long so she is in no way short of time whereas I leave at 2 or rather 3-4 pm as overtime for Christmas play and all the actors leave at 2 pm too so everything regarding the play has to be done by 2pm. And I swear those Christmas presents can be made in one single day...!

Then I had asked An to play the music on synthesizer.The reason why I had chosen An was because she had shown interest in helping me with the play and because she gets over at 1 pm which makes her conveniently available to me without disrupting any one or anything. And you know what? Now these days poor An has been asked to to do overtime till 3 pm for NO apparent reason. She merely looks after a very small child in Stf's group. It is astounding because that little child was earlier also in the group but An never was asked to stay back just to look after her.

It seems to me like an evil design to deprive me of any help from any quarter....! I just can't believe it..!