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Haiku #22, 23 - Real American: Cherie, ASM

Meet Cherie B. Tay, our assistant stage manager, Texas/Singapore native, technology savant. Where do I begin.  Cherie possesses a level of talent and drive I can really only describe as stupid.  She is my massage hookup, because, in addition to her grueling itinerant-stage-manager schedule, Cherie has taken it upon herself to learn reflexology during this tour.  I made up this haiku for her the first time she used me as a guinea pig:
i wish i could purr
reflexology is nice
i will drool instead

I wrote her this, too -
signing is handy
to talk to the ASM
from across the bus

- because she is also learning sign language using the videos from the ASL website.  She's teaching me, too.  Or trying.  So far, I speak sign language with an offensively thick accent: I keep saying "vaffanculo!" instead of "good", and when I'm trying to sign back "I don't understand" across the bus, it usually comes out as something like "HORSE! WANT! WHYYY!??!?"  Slowly but surely, however, I am learning to say such useful things as "I want cookie now!" and "Why, God, why today?"
Let's see, what else... she's working on her Spanish (a no-brainer on this bilingual tour), keeping a blog on her stage managing adventures, and acting as our unofficial tour photographer as well as posting on her daily photo project.
She can also drink me under the table.  But that's not so stupid.
Posted by pianokatsmeow at 12:34 AM Labels: American sign language, Cherie, haiku, In the Heights, Real Americans, reflexology, tour

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