APPLICANT #21: Steven Luckie

Steven Luckie is a 23-year-old teacher from Columbia.

Here is Steven's video application:

Here is Steven's current situation:

I am preparing to get married, and am trying to whittle down my list of potential groomsmen. I have a lot of friends, and have been thinking about all of the good times I have shared with them.

Here is Steven's blog post:

Friends are important!

I do love my friends. There is nothing like a good chuckle that is shared with a good friend. Anytime I need to feel better about something, I just think of one of my friends. Then, a million funny memories come to mind, and I can’t help but laugh. I wish I could share everything about all of my friends,  that could take years, so I’m going to focus on my friend Dom.

I swam for the University of South Carolina, and Dom was a backstroker recruited from Germany. We practiced in the same small group of swimmers, so I was one of his first friends from America. He got comfortable asking me questions about language, and culture, and basically anything. He had a lot of questions, but his English wasn’t very good. He pretty much took some English classes in high school and then came over here to go to College.

He came up to me one day and asked me in his almost incomprehensible English with a thick German accent, “Hey Luckie (my nickname), I has a question you”. I had known him for about a month now and could usually figure out what he was saying. “Ask away” I said. “Ask where?” was the quick reply as he looked around. I had to be careful about the words and expressions I used. “What is the question?” I asked slowly. “Oh, I wondering, you can borrow me your…how you say…super mario stick?” I was a little confused and asumed that I hadn’t heard him correctly. “What do you need to borrow, my Nintendo controller? I don’t have a Nintendo.” “No, no, no” he relpied. “It is stick for….ahh…don’t know how to say….” I was a little confused about what this had to do with Mario and Luigi, but we pressed on and eventually figured out that he need the stick “for to make toilet clean”, he needed to borrow an plunger. The Mario brothers were plumbers.

These shared moments are the things that make life interesting and exciting. Without friends and potential friends (all the people we haven’t met yet) life would be boring. I love my friends and I can’t wait to tell you about the time Dom asks to borrow a “Hover Craft” Anyway, thanks for reading!

Steven