8/26/12

"Jamie and I met up with Rhi and Billa at an AFS regional meeting (even though we were iE), and there we met the final member of the soon-to-be Glarus Four.  Ryan Lopes, another American, joined us there, and no one was really sure what to think at first.  He and I connected really well in an unexplainable way; maybe it was because we were both American and related culturally to each other, maybe it was because we had similar interests.  Either way, with Ryan there, our year of exchange students changed immediately."