Mom, Dad!! I'm on TEEVEE!

One of my favorite experiences so far happened this past week. I really immersed myself in the Montreux Jazz Festival. I managed to get myself there 4 times in one week. The first time was with Steph, who came and visited me and we checked out the town. I went the next night to see India Arie whom I LOVED. She’s an amazing woman and clearly sings from her heart and is led by God to do so. I was really inspired by her. Plus, she’s just entertaining. Some guy yelled out “I love you India” and she looks up and goes “How come I can’t get a man to say that when I’m not on stage?” I went Wednesday night with Heather to see Tori AMOS!! Who was absolutely amazing. After the concert I'm all crazy concert hyper and it's almost 1 am... As I'm leaving the stadium this camera crew is there and this woman pulls me over, puts a microphone in my face and starts talking to me in French. She paused as if it was my turn to talk and so I looked straight into the camera and put my hand at my mouth and whispered loudly into the camera "I speak English"... And I had a big retarded smile on my face. The camera crew started laughing and she says (in perfect English) "What did you think of the concert?" and I said "It was BEAUTIFUL, she was beautiful, the music was amazing; I really loved it." Heather who was with me, after the fact pointed out how funny (read: stupid) it was that I whispered "I speak English" instead of "I don't speak French".... AND then tonight I was watching Leman Blu (a local news station here) and during a segment called “REACTIONS: Tori Amos” I was on it! Thankfully my ethnocentric, deer-in-the-headlights prelude was edited out and I appear… well I won’t say “articulate” but if really could have been a lot worse.That's me!!!! Looking pretty tired at about one thirty am and we missed the 12:19 train, so we had to stay in Montreux until 2:00am on a wednesday. Fortunately, we ate my new favorite food: Merguez sausage.... Mary had a little lamb... And I ate it on a bun.