Les amies et amis

It's been busy two weeks.

I met up with a friend of mine,  whom I worked with in Malawi. I have not seen her since then for the past six years. 

I just found out that she now lives in Paris and works for the UN. Isn't it just amazing?

She was as beautiful and nice as I remembered her to be. We had a non stop two hour session of catching up, as you can easily imagine. We used to share everything with each other from work problems (we were both at the Ministry of Education) to personal (yes more the boy related things) things in life. We traveled to Zambia together and have so many funny memories. Feel free to read the entries of 2006 :). Funny enough what I remember the most is instant noodles that she used to cook for us during 1.5 hour lunch break at home, as she used to live very close to the Ministry. I really missed her!      

We were not in touch so frequently in the past 6 years, so we had to recount each other's life chronologically. Many things happened in our lives, but at the same time we are still exactly same as before. We have never imagined that we will find each other in Paris of all places!! I hope to spend as much time as possible with her during my sejour in Paris.   

In the meantime, my boyfriend had a visitor, long time friend from school, whom I also met in NY two years ago. He stayed with us on the couch bed for two nights. I drank quite a bit of sangria (in my low standard, which is getting improved!) with them.

I hope to meet up and catch up with more friends in Europe. One of the great things about working internationally is having friends in many places. The down-side is obviously not being able to see them all the time, so we need to make best of opportunities. The friend of M. FR happened to be in Geneva for work, and he took a train to come see him. He said "not coming to see him in Paris from Geneva is like being in NY at a same time but not meeting with each other" and he had to come. End surely, he had a great time walking around in the city and going to restaurants with us, I hope!