The Vol. 114, Issue 16
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Child stars to college sweethearts THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
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Megan Street, left, and Christian Giammichele enjoy hanging out together on campus. The couple met in fine arts last semester.
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Kelsey Thomas Staff Writer thomask15@up.edu Her name is Megan Street. She is a freshman, has a fraternal twin and is from Wilsonville, Ore. His name is Christian Giammichele. He is a freshman, has an identical twin and is from Ventura, Calif. It was love at first wail. Almost. After the two realized they appeared in the same film as babies, it was only a few months before they fell in love, got promise rings and started spending as much time as possible together.
“He’s a dork, but that’s my favorite thing. He’s really goofy and obnoxious.”
Meanwhile, couches full of crying babies appear behind Schwarzenegger and Giammichele. One of the babies in the front row is Street. Realizing they had been in the same movie, Street was shocked. “I didn’t really say anything [when he shared his fact] because I had this feeling that he did a background check on me just to freak me out,” Street said. When Street’s turn to share an interesting fact came, she turned to Giammichele and spoke to him for the first time. “I was like, ‘I was in that movie too – in the same scene,’” Street said. “We both freaked out.”
Days later, Giammichele and Street started getting breakfast after class. Weeks later, they began dating. Two weeks ago, they bought promise rings together. “He’s a dork, but that’s my favorite thing,” Street said. “He’s really goofy and obnoxious.”
“Her laugh is infectious. It’s ridiculous.” Christian Giammichele freshman Giammichele’s goofiness was evident in his attempt to get her number early on. When no one was sitting next
to Street in Fine Arts one day, Giammichele took the opportunity to sit down and get her help filling out a sheet assigned to him in his freshman workshop class, where he was supposed to get names and numbers of classmates. When he texted her the next day, it had nothing to do with Fine Arts. “It’s so embarrassing now,” Giammichele said. “It seemed really smooth at the time. I was like ‘this is perfect, she won’t know anything.’” “I knew exactly what he was doing,” Street said. See Love, page 5
Christian Giammichele
Megan Street freshman
At 8 a.m. on the first day of school, Street and Giammichele walked into fine arts individually, Megan Street heads filled more with questions and nerves than romance. When asked to share their name and an interesting fact about themselves for an icebreaker activity, Giammichele chose his goto. In 1994, he starred in an opening scene of the movie “Junior” by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger dreams he finds a baby, played by Giammichele, on a Photo courtesy of Northern Lights Entertainment table in a library and picks him up. “He squeezes a bag and I fake In a scene from the 1994 movie “Junior” Arnold Schwarzenegger holds up freshman Christian Giammichele. In pee all over him,” Giammichele the background on the couch is Megan Street, also a UP freshman. The two former movie stars met on campus and now have promise rings. They were shocked to discover in class that they had been in the same movie. said.