Dreams of Superstardom

So a few of us are sitting in Big C, the shopping centre across the street from where we live eating supper. We look up mid-meal to see Matt and Angela who run the Crossing Youth Center that we work in walking through the food court. A few greetings go around and then Matt quickly interjects to tell us of a strange meeting.

His words went something like this. "So I'm walking along and this guy comes up to me and asks if I'm a really forigner and I'm like, ahhh yeah. I'm a real forigner, what else did you expect. And he's get really excited and asks me if I know any forigners who rollerblade and I told him that I didn't but I did know some forigners who skateboarded. He told me that He directs commercials and wants forigners so if you guys want to come to the crossing tomorrow around 5:00 He's going to be there to check out the scene and you guys can try out I guess. I don't know, here he gave me his buisness card and it's a high quality card, seems legit."

Our reactions from there were mixed, laughing, talking talk about the possibilities of whats to come. Then we go about our day.

The next day at around 4:18 we get a call from Matt saying, "the guys here we need you over here". So the four of us males who consist of and form the skateboarding portion of the team headed over to find a crew of 4 people waiting. We skated around and they filmed us while taking us each out individually to shoot portriat shots of us in many different poses, some were really cheesy, like us holding our boards on our shoulders and looking excited about something. Then they asked if anyone could do the bigger "hand"rail that went down a set of stairs(for any skateboarders out there it was about a 3-4 foot high flatbar down a seven set, it was super low to get on to but ended high, super easy for anyone who's done an actual rail or even the eights rail in Red Deer). Since I was the only one on the team who can larger sized rails down stairs I went and did it. They were pretty happy when I did and asked me to fake a fall. So I did and they grinned and talked a bunch of Thai about it that I didn't understand. I did a few more times and that was that. After I was done the director asked me some questions as to my availability and then told me he'd would call with a grin on his face. Then the girls on the team showed up and the director got excited again, took a bunch of their portraits and mentioned something about another commercial He might cast them in, haha. Craziness!

So we'll see what happens but you just might be reading words typed by the same fingers that will be appearing on Japanese Television(they film commercials in Thailand because it's so cheap) as they accompany the body they're attached to down a handrail. It will be good to because the job will pay about $1000 Canadian which will come in handy at the Crossing and for funding our travels around Thailand.

Oh and one more thing, we were approached quite randomly(?) last night while eating pizza by a Polo Club manager. After finding out what we do he got our number and said he would call about getting the girls to perform. It was neat when that happened and we smiled. When the day was over we concluded it was a good day. the end