I love living in a college town!
I took myself out for a spot of dinner tonight and just as I was finishing up my friend Nav showed up. He asked me out to the Alley as the rain had moved on, so I went. Turns out he was with his new friend Tom.
So I spent a good portion of the evening hanging out with a Nepalese and a Norwegian. Great for the perspective let me tell you. We had a couple beers and some great conversation. Discussed books, librarianship, higher ed, politics, religion, the military, various aspects of international culture, and who knows what else. Both have been here (the US) long enough to easily forget that they aren’t American. But the beauty is, they’re not. So very refreshing! And it would have been hard to have some of those conversations with many Americans.
We may even go kayaking together soon on the Kickapoo River. It really is a small world after all. And not in some glorified Disneyesque sense; but in a real world individual manner.
Did I mention how I love living in a college town?