Thursday, July 5, 2007

Day Seven -- Fourth of July!

*Sidenote: I wore my red white and blue crocs today.*

Street throwing
There is a part in the pageant where Hannah and I have to throw this long piece of blue cloth in the hair, hold the ends, and run across the stage so it spreads out on the stage forming Granger Street on the map of cloth roads. We were in a cast meeting today and the choreographers were saying how we (in general) needed to work on our street throwing. Hannah and I were both thinking they were talking about us and thinking of how we could do it better. But then Jared said, "And can I just say that Granger street is amazing?!" So, we felt pretty good about ourselves.

Hannah has a new nickname
We've been pretty disturbed lately at our inability to make friends. We try, but no one is responsive to our attempts to be friendly. We've been feeling like we have personality defects, or we're scary and intimidating or something. So we've been confused. There's boy on the work crew named Kevin, though, who has been easy to work with. When we asked him about his Disneyland music days shirt, he answered our questions, and then kept the conversation going, like friends do. We told him our names, but he told us he's bad with names. So we decided to play a little trick on him. Like friends do. This was yesterday.

This morning when we saw Kevin he (very excitedly) yelled, "Hi Hannah and Natalie!" We looked at him confused for a minute. "What did you call me?" asked Hannah. "Um...Hannah?" Kevin replied. "Oh, you mean Jenna!" Hannah and I both said. Kevin acted very disturbed by this. He was sad that he had "forgotten" one of our names.

Of course, we started feeling bad about this. So we looked for Kevin all day to remedy the situation and relieve our consciences. But he was nowhere to be found. We started thinking that we had lost a friend. Luckily, when we started our evening run through, Kevin appeared, so we went up, told him the truth, and apologized. I think he has forgiven us, and we are on the path to making friends.


1 comment:

Noelle said...

Cool. Good street throwing. But what hair are you throwing the street into? Is there a huge pile of hair on stage?

Maybe it's because you guys are pariahs. Or maybe it's because people figure you already have each other and aren't lonely. Poor Kevin. Brilliant prank, though. Is he cute?