Friends far away

My friend Cerille got me into this whole blog thing. In fact, I had no idea what a blog was! Sure I've heard of the word, but I didn't really bother comprehending what it was all about. I met Cer in University; she was one of my groupmates for a finance class. Our friendship back then was solely based on finance cases and whose turn it was to write the report. It wasn't after the whole AIESEC experience (me coming back from Poland and her interested, and then eventually doing a traineeship) that we really got to know each other. We share common interest and points of view, but I am sure we may disagree on other things. She's in Indonesia right now, enjoying her life as a young woman. I haven't had the opportunity to personally hang out with her, but I am looking forward to spending time with her, over coffee perhaps. It is her birthday tomorrow. A toast to you Cer!

"Refugees". Despite the somewhat bad connotation of that word I end up smiling. A Polish friend, Wojtek, and his roommate, Rajmund, gave Sandrina and I that name. Every weekend, Sandrina and I would go to Krakow and sleep in whatever available room there was in the dormitory. We'd email a couple of days ahead, looking for a place for us to stay. No wonder we ended up being called refugees. Apart from living in a small town about 70km away, we'd always look for places to stay. Ah, those weekends in Krakow.

I find Sandrina to be such a multi-cultural person. Portuguese by blood and heritage, grew up in French soil, fluent in 3 languages and conversant in perhaps 3 more. I am often awed at how she remembers all these Polish phrases and words after almost 2 years going to Poland! I miss Sandrina. I hope I can visit her again in Portugal.