The New Zeal-lndian!

So many things to blog about ... planning to do them through the course of the day.

Been sometime since I talked of my acting classes - so here's one :) We are nearing the end of our acting classes and have now been given an exercise based on which we will be graded. We have been given a script - which is a conversation between a ticketless passenger and a ticket inspector. We are supposed to put this in some scenario (where the script fits more or less) which may or may not happen in the train. (I came up with this brilliant idea of making it a shooting of a porn movie with the ticket inspector played by a woman with a whip and boots and the guy playing a naive villager - unfortunately, the idea was shot down because we didn't agree on the costume of the co-star ;))

Anyway, this blog is about my partner in this exercise - ~HC. Now, ~HC is from new zealand, is extremely sweet, very unassuming, speaks english in the speed of light and surprises me every passing second.

• She cringes at the mention of any sidey joke. Our group is of a 'liberal' kind and we typically over indulge ourselves in double entendres. Everytime her face turns red and she would become extremely uncomfortable
  
• She's 26 and last time she called her parents, she cribbed how she actually has to swear in one of the scenes she's in. Her parents seemed to have convinced her that it's ok.
• She speaks hindi fluently. Hell, she quotes kabir dohas and javed akhtar's lyrics with ease. And she's been around for only about 6 months now.
• She was telling me the other day that she wanted to learn classical bharatanatyam. Just as I was about to tell her, it's quite tough she tells me that she's learnt Bharatanatyam for 6 YEARS! In newzealand and was about to give an "Arengetram"
  
• Apart from hindi, she's conversant in Kannada and knows all the bad words in malayalam and tamil :)
• The other day I told her I was in france and she starts talking to me in french (and I actually pretended I understood it all!) like a native and started talking about this book she's reading in french.
  

I was in france for 2 years and I am not even as much as french as french fries. And here's this lady, defying every assumption I had about people from abroad and becoming more indian than indians themselves! As I am not too much of a man with words ... whoa! whoaoaoaoaoa!!