parlez-vous anglais??
Well, yesterday was hilarious! Amanda Plett is back from Australia now... and I only saw her for the first time now that she's back, last night at church because she got back last Wednesday while I was still in Nova Scotia. So, that was cool... we left church and went to her house and then out to the Fringe Festival for the fireworks. We got there as the fireworks were starting... I must admit, I'm from Winkler. I had no idea what the Fringe Festival was until I read about it in the airplane magazine on the flight back from Toronto to Winnipeg on Sunday. Amanda explained it's like theatre and performances and stuff... so I thought, "well, cool!". In my defense, I do know what Folklorama is and Red River Ex and all that, and stuff in the Exchange District, I've been to all that, (minus the Ex)... but the Fringe... I'd only heard about it in distant fairy tales.
Yup... so we got there, and then we were walking to the Scotiabank stage to try and find some people, and the people on the stage started talking. In French. Now, I took French class... until Grade 11. Which basically means, I can talk someone if they talk slowly in French for about 5 minutes, as long as it's about days of the week, seasons, or food. "Le gateau". So, I was a little unnerved by that. Then, Amanda disappeared. And all these people, with matching jackets with their province written on the back in French started swarming past me. I heard a girl on stage say something about "Le Manitoba" and that's about all I understood. Okay, I understood a little more than that, but I was slowly spinning in a circle trying to find Amanda. Finally, I called my friend Katie. Katie's speaks French fluently, (yup she's pretty fabulous) so I figured maybe she could decipher what the heck was going on. Yeah, well, then of course the lady on the stage stopped talking and I couldn't repeat what she said to Katie to translate. Long story short, Mandi came back when she realized I hadn't been following her. But it was craziness there for a while... I even considered going up to someone and saying "bonjour" just to see how long it would take before I couldn't talk to them anymore... but they were all talking really fast so that ruled any conversation out.
But, we're going to go see some of the Fringe stuff, the stuff that's not perverted or weird.. well, not too weird. My friend Di told me there's this guy who does a one-man act of the whole trilogy of Star Wars in an hour. (yeah I know there's 6, but she seemed really happy about it so I'll just pretend there's 3 and that I'm really a Trekkie and I understand.) He also does Lord of the Rings, all 3, in an hour as a one-man act as well, and apparently both are hilarious. I'll let you know how that goes.
Yup... so we got there, and then we were walking to the Scotiabank stage to try and find some people, and the people on the stage started talking. In French. Now, I took French class... until Grade 11. Which basically means, I can talk someone if they talk slowly in French for about 5 minutes, as long as it's about days of the week, seasons, or food. "Le gateau". So, I was a little unnerved by that. Then, Amanda disappeared. And all these people, with matching jackets with their province written on the back in French started swarming past me. I heard a girl on stage say something about "Le Manitoba" and that's about all I understood. Okay, I understood a little more than that, but I was slowly spinning in a circle trying to find Amanda. Finally, I called my friend Katie. Katie's speaks French fluently, (yup she's pretty fabulous) so I figured maybe she could decipher what the heck was going on. Yeah, well, then of course the lady on the stage stopped talking and I couldn't repeat what she said to Katie to translate. Long story short, Mandi came back when she realized I hadn't been following her. But it was craziness there for a while... I even considered going up to someone and saying "bonjour" just to see how long it would take before I couldn't talk to them anymore... but they were all talking really fast so that ruled any conversation out.
But, we're going to go see some of the Fringe stuff, the stuff that's not perverted or weird.. well, not too weird. My friend Di told me there's this guy who does a one-man act of the whole trilogy of Star Wars in an hour. (yeah I know there's 6, but she seemed really happy about it so I'll just pretend there's 3 and that I'm really a Trekkie and I understand.) He also does Lord of the Rings, all 3, in an hour as a one-man act as well, and apparently both are hilarious. I'll let you know how that goes.
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