I took the early afternoon train on the Eurostar from Gare du Nord to St. Pancras International in London. The trip is about an hour and a half so I arrived with enough time to make some use of the afternoon. I made it to her apartment by navigating my way through the London subway system and eventually made it across the river to Lambeth North. A short alk later I was warmly welcomed by her roommate, Shardai, who I had already heard so much about.
While waiting for Nimmy to get home from work, Shardai and I hung out and got to know each other a bit. Her and Nimmy are friends from home (Newcastle) and she moved down to London for school. Turns out we have quite a few similar interests so we got to talking about all sorts of stuff, including our travels, our goals and ambitions for ourselves in the future, our past working experiences with working with the special need, politics and international development, etc. She's working towards an English and Communications degree and hopes to become a teacher one day for the special need.
At about six, I heard someone walking around in the hallway and then suddenly the living room door swung open. Nimmy was home! I can't describe how excited I was to see her. It had been over two years since we last saw each other. I remember our goodbye so vividly; we were hugging and crying in front of HKUST repeating to ourselves "We'll see each other again soon. We'll see each other again soon". Even though it had been so long, it felt like we were right back to where we were before. It was exactly the same. I think it's really special and rare to find a friend like that, when you know that oceans or decades apart won't change anything.We used the night to catch up and rest before a big weekend of going out. She made us delicious (and SPICY!) enchiladas and we put on a flick.
Tomorrow she will be taking me around to her favourite spots in the city.
Until then, sweet dreams.
xoxo
Alexis
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