The rest of the weekend I was pretty successful in keeping busy. Saturday morning Gabriella and I went to Starbucks and chatted while she had a cigarette. She is quiet in a sweet way, but has an excellent grasp of the English language. This is nice, especially since I still have a problem ordering coffee, and my French is just a rusty as it was marginally mediocre two years ago. I let her talk because she has a hard time understanding my accent, but mainly because she has so many interesting things to say! She's been everywhere. Sometimes she doesn't get to see her home, a small town in Russia, for months and months because she moves so constantly. Tokyo, Turkey, Hong Kong, Indonesia....There are more places she's lived in, but my memory isn't what it used to be, now that I'm an adult and all.
Gabriella's experienced in travel: she walks everywhere to castings, and some of those are quite a distance: DF sprawls in all directions. Every time I hop into a taxi, I feel a bit lame. I constantly have to remind myself that she's been traveling by herself for years, and though she does not look it at all, she is 24 (she seems 19/20 tops). I am still called a "little child" or "just a baby" by other models.
Anyways, over all, I wouldn't feel comfortable walking by myself to a place I've never walked to before, especially in DF. Some castings can be in pretty sketchy areas, and those seem to rise up around you without your notice.
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