Making it in Moscow

I moved to Moscow on Saturday. It was a long drive from Rexburg and we didn't have any problems with the weather... just with other things. First, my dad was pulled over on the Moscow highway for going 52 mph in a 45 mph zone. Luckily, he got off with a warning. There was rain and fog, so we didn't even see a cop sitting there ready to nab us as we came through. Then, because of the whole cop situation, my dad was on the lookout and trying to be good. When he hit a yellow light in town he slammed on his breaks and my magnet board (which is made of wood and metal) came flying from the back of the SUV and hit me in the head behind my left ear, leaving a huge goose egg and a headache for hours afterwards. So my first few minutes in Moscow were spent holding a bag of ice on my head. It wasn't really great.

What was great was that the next day I got to see my sister's play, Strange Attractors, at a matinee show and an evening show. It was so wonderful. The actors did a phenomenal job and it was a truly beautiful play. It is so amazing to think that my sister wrote it. She's brilliant, and everyone thinks so. She is definitely going places and that makes me happy. I'm proud of her.

I loved the play so much that I went back for the Sunday matinee. There I met a lady who started to talk to me about how she wished she could have seen more advertising in the community, rather than just around campus. The only way she even heard about the play was from her friend who just happened to be the scenic designer for the production. She asked me if there were any posters for the play. I was shocked. There were posters for the play, but unfortunately they were small and there wasn't enough of them to be circulated around. So she missed seeing one at all.

I talked to her for a while and explained that what I wanted to do was advertise for theatre. She told me about Heart of the Arts, Inc., a non-profit company here in Moscow that is geared toward community involvement in the arts. This was my first experience with networking and it happened only one day after I arrived. It gives me hope that I will be able to network more and find my niche here in Moscow.