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Greenville First Fridays
The Rain Won't Slow
Us Down
By Naiesha Thobe, Teen Scribe
This past Friday was this reporter's first chance to experience
Broadway's "First Fridays". It was a remarkably interesting prospect,
reading about fire breathers and belly dancers and magicians that were
going to be wandering through our hometown. It was exciting and, thus,
I appealed to my friends to get a group together and we'd all go hang
out and watch the entertainment.
And then the rain. Oh, the rain. It left us wondering is this even
happening now? In the end, we decided to go, anyway. Even if there
hadn't been any entertainment, there was always The Coffee Pot and a
cup of joe. Thankfully, the performances went on to an extent, so my
group and I got a hot drink and entertainment.
Unfortunately, due to the rain, the fire breathers had been cancelled,
but we first met the magician nearly as soon as we stepped onto
Broadway. A hot drink, some carousing through the rain, and crowding
into another shop later, we were able to experience the belly dancers.
For a lack of knowing where to turn from there, and partially because
when we stepped back outside, it was pouring, we (meaning just me, and
one of my friends) took off running down the street, re-enacting a part
from our favorite television show, complete with yelling the quotes at
each other, as we headed for refuge in another shop. In the end, we
ended up following the belly dancers to see their full performance.
We wandered Broadway a bit more, stopped to watch the mime and the
ukulele player, and managed to weave our way in and out of pictures
being taken (although we were somewhat unsuccessful) to come to another
dry refuge and the magician again.
This all being said and done, and due to our having stood under the
awning of buildings for awhile when it rained, it was dark by the time
we stepped out from our latest vacation in the magical world. It was
starting to thunder and lightning, and generally more miserable, so our
group departed from there.
All in all, it was clear that the rain couldn't hold Greenville down.
We didn't stay long to listen, but there was the Dick Helman Trio band
being hosted in The Coffee Pot, which drew in a lot of visitors just to
begin with. Whether taking refuge inside shops to avoid rain, following
performers around, standing under awnings and watching performances
(or, in my case, running down the street and managing to spill my white
chocolate steamer for the sake of absolutely goofy), September's "First
Friday" turned out to be quite a fun evening, after all.
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