[MR] Your suggestions please => Newcomers thread

[Siegfried]

Olivia ... since you so recently went through this experience.  Could
you help the rest of us understand something?

What led you upon the path of doing all the research, making garb, etc.
 And then showing up for an event as your first introduction to the SCA?

For many of us 'old-timers', when we got into the SCA, it was a much
different experience, where we first found out about the SCA, and then
our first reaction was immediately to contact the Seneschal or
Chatelaine of the local group, talk to them ... which in turn led to us
attending meetings, A&S nights, fighter practices, etc.   And getting to
know the local group, get help making garb, and be 'part of the SCA',
long before attending an event.

Deeply curious,
Siegfried


On 10/15/10 11:12 AM, Olivia Chandler wrote:
> Lord Jack Black, et. al.,
> 
> I greatly like your idea of posting signage at the troll for newcomers. I
> and my daughter were newcomers at a recent event. We were as described
> earlier: did the research, showed up in garb, trolled without issue, then
> where a bit lost.
> 
> We were almost immediately rescued by kind folk who recognized our
> unfamiliarity (or possibly the deer in the headlight looks.) We met many
> kind folk that day, made some new friends, and had a wonderful time, but
> without their intervention it could have been a quite different kind of day.
> 
> Knowing there was someone we could "hook-up" with would have been helpful.
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Olivia Chandler.
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