My pointe class recently acquired a new student. A 12-13 year old. The only trouble? We have the same name. Now, my parents were kind enough not to name me Sarah or Christian (yeah, so I kinda grew up in California's bible belt and there were a LOT of Christians, believe it or not) so it's rare for me to be in that situation. Sometimes at the theater we get a character with my name and then I complain for an entire month (you know how even when you aren't really listening to someone's conversation you can instantly recognize your name being spoken and you sort of go on the alert? Yeah, so imagine that happening every twenty minutes for eight hours a day), but another girl with my name? So rare. It happened to me once at work, when we had an intern considerably younger than me (though she pronounced it sliiiiightly differently). My name, okay? My name? No one had ever heard of it until I was ten. Then ERRYONE started using it and it's become really common for people under 20. So this was bound to happen eventually. Still. It's weird. And this other RPrin and I will be doing our thing and the teacher will shout a correction to one of us... and then we both try to do it, regardless of whether or not there was anything wrong with us in the first place... and then everyone gets confused and the teacher goes "AAARGH! No! Not RPrin! The other RPrin!"
Anyway, it's obnoxious.
Last week after MiniRPrin had gone home and I was lingering to fit skirts for a few girls who are doing a performance at a dentist's convention (I know, right?) my teacher called me "the real RPrin"
That's right, little girl. I'm the REAL one.
Snerk.
Hi Real RPrin! ;)
ReplyDeleteSo far, there have been no other students with my name in class - which is kind of odd, since it's not such a rare name. But I feel your pain... It would totally confuse me, as my teacher likes to give a LOT of corrections - and I already tend to overcorrect! Also noticed that last time a new-ish student took the corrections given to a regular with the same name, and I almost felt a little bad for her... she seemed so delighted at the sudden name-attention. Note: our teacher is a very lovely & kind person, and gives corrections to everyone - but she's not that good with names (there's also a foreign language issue going on).
- Johanna
P.S. I like your style.