ally? did you meet my boyfriend?
so i few weeks ago i started a post about how small the world is, you know, the stories of how while shopping duty free at gatwick, you bump into your kindergarten teacher from your time in abijan 20 years ago sort of thing. anyway, this story should go under that post, but i am not computer savvy enough (read: lazy) to find it, plus i want to find this woman, so i am calling out.
a few days ago, my fiancé, whom i love very much, left to go on tour in the states (check out jababliafrica.com for a concert near you (if you are in the states)) and as he often does, he looked for a rideshare on craigslist and on this facebok group for people who travel frequently between montréal and new york. anyway, he found one with this guy, and there was another girl also getting a ride from him, and my bf and her got to talking and she mentioned having lived all over and he said (my very clever fiancé) ‘oh, so you’re tck?’ and she was delighted he’d even heard of the term, and so he explained that his fiancée (moi) is tck. and went on to reccommend this site. well apparetnly she is already a member and had seen my name on the site.
so, i think its ally? my bf has the worst memory, but anyway, who rode with my man to ny? isn’t that a crazy, funny coincidence (there are NO coincidences!)? isn’t he just the cutest, nicest guy?
anyway, just thought it was a cool story…
uhm, let's see...born in botswana, lived in ethiopia til i was 8, repatriatede to botswana, hated it. moved to swaziland for high school (uwc! woohoo!) finished in 1995 (yes, i did IB), went back to botswana ofr about 8 months, then to the states (virginia) for the next 4 years of college, earned my BA in theatre arts, went on tour with the oldest classical touring company in the usa for 9 months, played in over 25 states, the lived in DC for about 6 months. went back to botswan (AGAIN!) was there for 5 years. half the time i was either in south africa or traveling. been to, i don't know, i lot of countries. so i am an actor/writer/director/all around thespian who just discovered she's also tck. awesome!
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6 Comments to “ally? did you meet my boyfriend?”
January 30th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
AH yes it was me! Hahaha, i know, i love it how crazy small the world is. I actually looked for your fiancee on Facebook to see what schools he’s planning on playing at in the States so i could tell my friends about it, but i didn’t remember how to spell his name…
It was so funny, we started talking about tckid.com and he goes “Oh, do you know a user called Warona?” and even though i only became a member a few weeks ago i’d seen your comments on some thing! Weird huh.
Anyways, hi, I’m Allie!
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January 30th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I have a bunch of stories like that! I think the craziest one is that my best friend from Japan and my best friend at Ghana were both students at Brown. They somehow ended up in a class together. And the Japanese one was like “I have a friend from Ghana, Doreen.” And The one from Ghana was like “I know Doreen…” So they called my mom. Hahahahahah!
Seriously, the world’s not that big.
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January 30th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Oh, I should mention that they were put as partners on a project. Otherwise that conversation may never even have taken place.
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January 31st, 2008 at 7:45 am
isn’t that weird?
so it is allie, just spelt it wrong, sorry. hahahahahhaha! so strange. you can check out jababliafrica.com for tourdates. and anyone else who is states side.
so allie, maybe next time you are in montréal, we can all go out for a drink or something
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January 31st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Wow, this is awesome! I think this is the 3rd small world story on tckid.
I remember reading about Preyanka from Hanoi Vietnam finding someone on tckid that she knew a long time ago. That’s really cool.
I love those small world stories!
Hey, if you go out for a drink, please have a mango drink for me
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February 27th, 2008 at 3:05 am
They say that there are 6 degrees of separation between any two humans on the earth. I have a theory that for global nomads it’s more like 3 or 4.
I love it!
It’s one of my favorite games to try to find our connection when I meet another GN… You know, like that Kevin Bacon game… 
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