Twins!

Over the course of my first week at school, people started confusing me with someone else. They would come up to me and say "Hey May!" or start talking to me about the visual and critical studies program. Once I made clear who I was, they were very surprised and informed me that I have an identical twin in the program. Disbelieving that there was someone that looked so similar to me, I started looking for her, but our paths rarely crossed. And when they did, we would not notice each other. Everyone else did though. People were trying to get us to meet and I felt as though was being set up for a blind date or something. Finally one day I heard someone talking to someone called May and so I turned around and introduced myself.

She was smaller than me with short brown hair, tan skin, and freckles. We had very similar eyes, but our face shapes were different. I would not have recognized her as my "twin", but we do have similar features and coloring. We sat and had lunch together, and she told me she was from California as well, from LA. She is the only other person I have met from California. Leaving the dining hall, everyone seemed to be looking at us and whispering in delight how the twins finally got to meet.

I had lunch with May yesterday, I she showed me her new nose piercing. I laughed and said, "I have always wanted a nose piercing! I thought about getting one for a while."

"Of course," she said, "we are twins." Then she pulled out her Ray Ban sunglasses and put them on.

I will try to get a picture and post it on my blog!