An Invitation

So I thought that I should write this story down becuase it has tickled me (thats right "tickled me") for the past two weeks now. As many of you know every Monday night I have been taking a two hour long improv class. This is too keep up with the improv I did in college, and hopefully will continue to do once I return to the states. This class is just a level 1 improv class, and mostly full of business people and the such who have never performed before. They are taking it as a way to learn how to be more spontaneous or to think outside the box and such things which I think are all great reasons for learing improv. However it means very few of us know what we are doing. (the other thing that means is that those of us who have done improv before really stick out) (but that sounds arrogant so just ignore it)

At any rate, another woman there, a Scottish actress of about 30 I'd say who is really cool and I enjoy, came up to me last Monday after class. She asked how old I was with a hopeful look. I told her that I was 22 at which point she replied with an "Ah shoot". She said that she "had a friend that was 'really cool and funny just like you' and I think you two would get along great, and I wanted to hook you guys up with each other. But she is 36 so I think you're a little young". I played it off rather jokingly and everything, but inside I was rather speechless. For the first time in my life someone had tried to set me up on a blind date. And not like a blind date as in college date function where you go with a friend's friend for the evening. But like a "she is 36 and single, you are single, lets get you two together for a dinner and see if magic happens". I'm sure it wasn't quite meant like that. But I mean I had just had an actual adult, try and hook me up with one of her friends. I thought "Wow, thats a new level for me" Anyways, it made me chuckle all night, but it was also probably the largest comment I had recieved since I've gotten here. Actually it probably comes in second, right behind another woman (a Scottish woman again actually) saying, "America's best export, in my opinion, are their men." She was a very aristocratic Scottish woman that said that at dinner with Leigh, Christoph, and I. She was an old family friend apparently.

However I digress. I was greatly complimented and happy all week that someone had tried to set me up on blind date. Well a week went by, and last night I returned to improv class. It is nice, because we are finally getting into scene work which means I actually have a chance to really do stuff rather than constant warm up games and such. Well, after the workshop, Claire (the Scottish actress) came up to me and said "hey, I was thinking about it, and I think you and my friend would get along excellently and I'd really like you to meet her. Not like that of course, cause i don't think she's a cougar, but I just think you would hit it off." I told her that I'd love to meet her and that it would be my pleasure. At which point she said "Great! Well, we are going to this party on Saturday night, you should join us" Holy Crap Again!! Now I wasn't being set up for a blind date, but I had just been invited to party in order to meet her friend. Maybe that isn't anything to special, but it just seemed straight out of the movies. Some rather attractive woman was like 'I have a friend you should meet', 'oh ya sure i'd love too', (quick little smile) 'well we are going to a party saturday night you should come with'. Maybe I am just enjoying myself for no reason, but I felt pretty cool. Unfortunately I then felt uncool after I had to say no because I would be up at the mountain snowboarding. However we swapped numbers, and hopefully I will meet this friend, that apperantly I will definitely like, soon.

So that was my quick little anecdote I wanted to share. Its rainy again, but there sure are some of the most beautiful rainbows in the world here. Enjoy

PS here are some of the pictures from the past 3 weeks, sorry its taken so long.