ANST - A questionnare.
njones at ix.netcom.com
njones at ix.netcom.com
Wed Jul 30 22:35:34 PDT 1997
Hello Friends!
Gunthar: Very interesting topic, thanks for bringing it to the list.
> How did you first get started in the SCA and how old were you?
While depressed and driving along along the roads of San Antonio one
evening
I discovered Celtic music. I had never before heard such sounds that
could
touch my soul in quite that way. I decided to seek out more of this
wonderful
music. One outlet was a small Irish bar where musicians would gather on
Thursday nights and jam while drinking pint after pint of Guiness.
Another
thought was that if I contacted the SCA, they might be playing and
listening
to the music.
I had read references to the SCA in some Science Fiction and Fantasy
books,
but had no idea how to get in contact with them. But, then I came upon
the
idea of putting up signs at UT-San Antonio, where I was a student. But
before
I actually got around to doing that...Lo and Behold! Notices for a Demo
appeared
all over campus.
At the demo I met and listened to Ragnar, Moonbear, Constance and many
others.
I was enthralled! I signed up on the info list and a couple of weeks
later
I was called by the hospitaler and invited to a revel. And then a
couple of
weeks after that was my first event and I was hooked.
So, my answer to how I got in the SCA is "serendipity."
I was 21.
> What make[s] you stay?
Hmmmm...I've thought about that a lot since I moved up to Northkeep a
year
ago. At the moment I am probably the most inactive I have ever been
during
the six years I've been in the SCA.
I stay for many reasons. Most of the my dearest friends I have I met in
the
SCA, and without going to events I would rarely see some of them.
Because it's
a wild and wonderful voyage of discovery for me. I have learned so much
about
myself since I've been in the SCA, about my creative talents and love of
learning.
I wouldn't be the person I am today without having been in the SCA.
> What did you do to develop your personna and why did you choose it/them?
When i had been in the SCa about four or five months, a friend decided
to
change to an Italian persona. And, seeing that I had no persona at all,
she asked if I would like to be her cousin. I had no objections or
better
ideas so I went with that.
Since then, I've read about the period, and really fell in love with the
history. Florence from 1380-1425 was such a nifty and unique society!
Gio.
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