Bosnia

So, I leave tomorrow. I still need to get a few things, and pack, but I'm pretty much ready.

I have no idea what I'm in for. The cast is super excited, and they've done this before, so I am feeling their thrill.

Whenever I talk to people about the trip, they seem concerned about my safety. I haven't given a single thought to any danger. I don't know if I'm just being naive, as I sometimes am, or if the people are just being nervous nillies, as I find many people are when you want to do the unfamiliar.

I sat talking with a marine the other night in a bar, and I realized that the money I'm making to do this tour is not because of the show I'm doing. The show is a piece of cake. No, the money I'm making is because I will be with the troops all day long, and I have to essentially be "on" all day then. I have to be respectful, and sincere, and enjoyable. I'm paid to be their relief.

To do this, I think I'm going to bring a video camera. KK suggested I document the trip, and I love doing those man on the street things. He is letting me take the camera. The guy who plays the detective is also a great improviser, and a living cartoon, much like me. I already told him let's run around and film and be silly, and he loves the idea.

I'm really thinking of this as a vacation. To be sure, the night in Vienna at the start, and the night in Munich at the end will be purely vacation. I'm looking forward to eating. Something about eating food in another country, it seems so..... unique.

Talking to my director yesterday, she said she agreed to go to Korea in the future. How cool would that be! This could be great.

Then, when I get home, I have two days to prepare for the next improv show. I play a former shepard who has come to a creepy town to make a name for himself. We are setting it in the year 1891. It is a horror genre of improv. Yikes!

Then I have my sketch show. Talking to one of the other students in the show last night, he said the director told him that he could have made the whole show just from his, mine, and another girl's sketches. That is great to hear! Now if I nail the performance, I'll be in really good shape to get picked to join the company.

But that's for when I get back.......