Honestly, I don't think I'd be as happy right now or having the experience I've had without making friends. Life lesson dudes... it's no fun experiencing things without enjoying it with someone. It's the most beautiful feeling, giving someone a hug good-bye and thinking to myself, "Shit guys, I have a friend!" I actually found a good number of people who care enough about me that they'd even touch my skin to give me a kiss and a hug before leaving. They even call me once in a while to see how I'm doing. Amazing! Such a simplistic concept... friendship, yet so deep. I mean, think about how successful the show FRIENDS became! The whole show was just about a group of friends... and like woah, shits a hit!
It's been great, I mean, I do miss my plumber dude... he was my first real friend out here, but I've come to grips with it. It's fascinating how quickly people affect other people. All of my relationships here are based on me randomly popping into their world. Even at my new gig I picked up, the whole staff treats me like I've been there for years. Like, they actually care about what I'm doing with my life and I actually give a damn if one of them is having a bad day or stubs their toe (especially if it's the tiny one... those hurt yo!)
For example, for the past 4 weeks, I've really gotten to know this guy named Tim. He's the other runner at the office. He's just awesome. His girlfriend is awesome... she rocks the dreads look right now. Funny, he's actually the only British dude I've met that doesn't like tea... Who does that? He puts me on all these random media facts in London, which may or may not do me any good in the future... unless I get to be on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?! (watch Slumdog Millionaire and then maybe you'll get my terrible joke/thought process)
Andy is another dude I've become good mates with. Him and his girl have been going out now for 7 years! Wowzers. Andy just looks out for me so much. We have the best chats about life and its great connecting with people who you'd never realize you had so many similarities with. Who would think a chick like me from the Bronx, would share similar goals as a dude from a small town in Devon, England. He's a drummer and I got to watch him live at the pub I use to work at. It's nice going back to the pubs I worked at, especially the one I used to live above. I made such good friends there. My two old Australian flatmates Ben and Anna. I love them and it was just so refreshing to see them as well yesterday. One of the regulars came up to me and bought me a Bulmers and said "Well you seem to be miss popular tonight huh!" Funny, I only worked and lived there a month.
I can't even begin to explain how awesome my flatmate Chris is... and Jeannie and Scottish dude. Scottish dude is already planning out my birthday weekend. If nothing else works out here, I have nothing to regret or complain about. I've made some life long friends. It's a hard concept to grasp when you have your own circle of friends and you don't really need to find new ones, but for me, popping over here with nothing and finding so much... it just makes you really appreciative of what I have and it's made the relationships I have with people out here a lot stronger.
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