Dying to Self - Delilah Style

Each Friday brings much stress and laughter in our Conversation class. Every week our class has to read through a larger portion of Scripture that surrounds a well know Bible story. This week was the story of Samson and Delilah. Since the class focuses on conversation, each Friday we have to act out the Bible story without notes (but if truth be known, we sometimes use 3x5 cards full of prompts). This exercise, is...well...exercise, mental exercise. The whole point of it is to make us use what we know when under the pressure of the moment (you know...like real life).

Well, to set the scene for you all...my classmates, Paul, Michael, and Phil did their skit first. Towards the end of their skit, there was a small audience that had formed in the doorway to watch. Don't those people have classes to go to? It was hilarious to watch the three realize that there was a growing audience in the hallway. No problem. They will all go away after the first skit is done....right?

Nope...our teacher invited them all in to have a seat for the next skit...ours. Jared and I were not sure what to think of this development. We are all for having a little fun with our all male class, but inviting the girl's conversation class, plus several other office secretaries and professors. I DON'T THINK SO! IT'S NOT SO FUNNY ANYMORE! But we lost the battle and had to do our Samson & Delilah skit in front of our biggest crowd ever!

Jared (who played Samson) put on four long sleeve sweaters to bulk up started up the skit will the scene of Samson tearing off the city doors and carrying them to Hebron. Before class, we popped the door hinges off and used the door from a nearby classroom. Needless to say, with the weight of the door combined with the four sweaters, plus the Samson wig, Jared was sweating profusely.

While I lobbied for the Samson part, I lost due to my body shape (or lack of). Yes...I played Delilah. It wasn't my favorite role, but someone had to do it...hair bow, scarf, earrings and wig. Of course, the added pressure of the expanded audience and the hot wig made our performances sub-par...but we sure had fun.

And just to be clear...Samson did not nestle his head in my lap.
We made that very clear during our practice session.
Above: Jared, after being shaved and realizing his powers were gone.

The skit ended with a big bang...literally. Jared pushed two chairs off the desk, like Samson pushed the pillars down at the party to Dagon, thus killing Samson and all of the Philistines.

Language school is coming to a close here in 5 weeks, but it's days like today that bring some sanity to the details of grammar and phonetics. Our Conversation class is loads of fun, but next week, no one will be allowed to watch. Come to think of it, next week's story is on King David...I hoping that we don't have to act out 2 Sam. chapter 11...you know...that's the one with David and B....well....you understand.