As the title states, I am currently drinking coffee, and I am drinking it in Ecuador.
My mother is from here, which is why I come here once a year, sometimes twice.
I am from Hamburg, Germany, which is why I’d rather be there than here.
But enough of that, I’ve gotten over that shitty little basterd fact, I suppose.
Anyway, because my mother doesn’t allow laziness or the act of doing nothing, Peter Gibbons style, she got me a semi-internship at this TV station here. I say semi-internship due to the fact that I don’t really do any work there, I just sort of watch them film these ridiculou soap operas and pretend to learn stuff I don’t already know. But most of it is pretty basic, and I know what the different people have to do and when, and how a show like this comes together, because I’ve seen it before. Maybe I’m being too much of a smartass, but in all honesty, the past week has felt like more of a waste of time than it might’ve if I had just stayed here, at home, in my grandparents house, and read the two new Loebb Batman graphic novels.
However. Yesterday, was a surprise. Whilst filming a scene, the Assisstant Director called me over, and paired me up with this very cute Extra, and told us to walk alongside the background, and disappear into a room.
I was going to become an official extra on a South American soap opera in under ten seconds. He counted down, five, four, three, two….accion! So I walked past, pretend-talking to this girl, gesturing, etc, and disappeared into a hallway in which I waited until Cut was called.
So in a couple of months I will be on television here.
Fucking Fantastic. It’s still a little shocking.
And its just a 4 second extra thing.
But totally worth it.
