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Tonight was my final class of “French 2” from a local community college here in Seattle. Post class my fellow students suggested that we all popped over to a local bar for a celebratory drink…certainly seems common enough. And I suppose in actuality it really was…what amazed me was how diverse we were and how well we meshed.
There were four of us who stayed to the end to shut the bar
down. Phillip – a Chinese born guy who
lived in Hong Kong until the transfer where he relocated to New Zealand and
attended high school and university. He
did his PhD in Yale before working for 5 years in London. He is currently in Seattle working as an Immunology
Scientist specializing in Lupus. Amelia –
an American who has recently graduated University who studied abroad part of
the time in India. She is departing
within a month to work as a teacher’s assistant in France. And Lieopold, a stunningly gorgeous German
woman who temporarily relocated to Seattle with her husband, a Microsoft
Employee. Four of us, from four different countries, with four very different upbringings
and spanning probably a 20 years age bracket spent hours talking about politics
and current events. We shared travel
stories, teased each other and then openly shared our individual hopes for the
future. I felt completely at home with
this group of virtual strangers. The one
thing it definitely did was fuel my desire to get out in the world and meet new
‘old friends’.
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