I didn’t talk to anyone in college for weeks. After that, I was terrified to make friends. Towards the end of my revered high school career, we stopped being friends. She could make killer chicken Alfredo pasta. As I got older and entered high school, I met the coolest girl to ever exist and we had similar music tastes and she was just an amazing person. Like I was just terribly antisocial and super depressed and yeah I had no friends. When I was in elementary school I had like.no friends. I’m meeting doctors who’ve spent most of their life in Chile and India, and these super cool little kids who are trying their very best to string together the little English they know to enthusiastically ask “How long are you staying for?” Seven days. They have so much cool advice and insight for me. I’m meeting lawyers from Nairobi who are genuinely interested in what I’m doing post-grad. But this last Friday, there was like 30 people in that room. The community in Nice is really small and on an average Friday we’ll get like 5 people who show up for prayers. Well we’re doing this dinner right and it’s not at all like our usual festivities. Something about seeing gobi and sambhar really tickled my heart. Yeah the gyros and pasta and wings are cool but I don’t know. I don’t know if any of my other fellow brownies have ever felt this way but to walk into a room with a fully South Asian spread of food almost brought tears to my eyes. We have a big celebration coming up tomorrow actually, and so on Friday we did our prayer stuff but then we had this huge dinner after. And yet I feel so sad to say goodbye to these people I’ve known for less than 4 months.Ī couple days ago on Friday, I went to my place of worship. It’s just, yeah, it’s not like life back home. I literally struggle to do basic stuff like groceries here all the time. It’s weird because life in Nice isn’t really my real life. I’ve been saying a lot of goodbyes this past week. Guess who dug their unnecessarily ginormous suitcase out to start packing up the coolest semester they’ve ever had and ever willlll? Me ):
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