We also spent half an hour listening to our Drama teacher's story about her life and her husband. And how they spent their whole relationship just being casual and never thinking too far ahead. He was an Australian guy and they were together in the USA. When his Visa ran out, she dropped him off at the airport. At the bar, Ando asked him to marry her. He said no. That is not the reason they will get married. So they took two tequila shots and he got on the plane. Then a few weeks later, he sent her a box full of shells he'd collected and a painting his brother did for her and all these other little things. She called him to say thanks for the box, it was beautiful. And he said "its from my family. Would you like to be a part of it?" and she said "Um, yeah okay!" And then he hung up.
She called her sister and said "I think I'm engaged, but I'm not really sure."
Seven months later, she got on the plane to Australia with two suitcases, in one of them was her wedding dress. She kept having nightmares that she'd get off the plane and he had forgotten about her and she arrived in Australia, walked out of the gate and there was no one waiting for her and that she would have no where to go. So, she bought a round ticket just in case things didn't work out.
She got off the plane with her two suitcases and when she walked out of the gate, there was no one there waiting for her. She sat down outside the terminal and waited. (The look on her face while telling the story, oh my god I love her, I wanted to cry.)
Turns out he was late, he was having drinks with Stefan upstairs at the airport lounge.
And thats it, she left her dream role of Kate, her Shakespearian dream and everyone she knew for him.
It was so beautiful and she is in the top ten most amazing people I've ever met.
And I don't know if its inappropriate to post this here when it isn't my story or my business. But I just love this kind of thing in life.
