Facebook and blogs have made this a very different blog post than it would have been a few years ago. And that's one of the things I love about Facebook and blogs. Still, there are some long-lost friends of mine out there who seem to be beyond the reach of social media.
My sophomore year of college, I roomed with a Korean girl, Hae-Jin, who was studying at the BYU's English Language Center. She was so awesome. I will never forget the first day I moved in to Belmont 36 (the slummy apartments, not the swanky condos). On the kitchen counter was a tupperware full of cookies, with a Post-it note attached that had "Please eat this cookies" printed on it in neat, Asian-ish handwriting. She was also fond of telling Jeremy to "stop bothering" - she hadn't yet picked up on the fact that "bother" needs an object. Hae-Jin is also the person who was riding her bike with me home from Movies 8 and we cut through a dark parking lot and I hit a speedbump without warning and crashed. She jumped off her bike, ran over to me, and asked with such concern, "Bridget, do you work??" Hae-Jin, where are you?
I miss so many of the kids I taught in Syria. Email was even kind of a big deal at the time, since it was hard to get a (dial-up!) internet connection at home. So when I moved away from Syria, I did so without lasting contact information for any of my students. Sad. I've re-connected with five of them on Facebook (yay!) but I still think about the others and wondering how they're doing. Lujain, Riwa, Dania, Mary-Anne, Alia, and everyone else, where are you?
In Russia, I was friends with a woman at church named Alyona Angel. Isn't that the prettiest name ever? Her personality fit the name, too. She had recently moved to Moscow from Moldova, so we were comrades in learning Russian (but she was way ahead of me since they studied it in school in Moldova). I remember she came over to my house for lunch one day and it was the first time she'd ever eaten pineapple. Every once in a while I check Facebook to see if she's there, but I haven't had any luck so far. Alyona, where are you?
A group of friends that I did manage to keep in touch with, even before blogs and Facebook, are my roommates from my freshman year of college. It's kind of amazing to think that we are still really updated on each other's lives even though it's been almost 13 years since we first lived together. Aaaand reading that sentence just freaked me out a little bit. I can't believe it's been almost 13 years!
Who are your long-lost friends?
My sophomore year of college, I roomed with a Korean girl, Hae-Jin, who was studying at the BYU's English Language Center. She was so awesome. I will never forget the first day I moved in to Belmont 36 (the slummy apartments, not the swanky condos). On the kitchen counter was a tupperware full of cookies, with a Post-it note attached that had "Please eat this cookies" printed on it in neat, Asian-ish handwriting. She was also fond of telling Jeremy to "stop bothering" - she hadn't yet picked up on the fact that "bother" needs an object. Hae-Jin is also the person who was riding her bike with me home from Movies 8 and we cut through a dark parking lot and I hit a speedbump without warning and crashed. She jumped off her bike, ran over to me, and asked with such concern, "Bridget, do you work??" Hae-Jin, where are you?
In Russia, I was friends with a woman at church named Alyona Angel. Isn't that the prettiest name ever? Her personality fit the name, too. She had recently moved to Moscow from Moldova, so we were comrades in learning Russian (but she was way ahead of me since they studied it in school in Moldova). I remember she came over to my house for lunch one day and it was the first time she'd ever eaten pineapple. Every once in a while I check Facebook to see if she's there, but I haven't had any luck so far. Alyona, where are you?
A group of friends that I did manage to keep in touch with, even before blogs and Facebook, are my roommates from my freshman year of college. It's kind of amazing to think that we are still really updated on each other's lives even though it's been almost 13 years since we first lived together. Aaaand reading that sentence just freaked me out a little bit. I can't believe it's been almost 13 years!
Who are your long-lost friends?