When I came home, John was sitting on my couch, waiting for me!!! ^_^ Airplanes are just so magical, my goodness! He´d arrived at my apartment at 11:30 in the morning and had been sitting there, doing work and waiting for me. I took two seconds to drop some of my stuff and we were out the door and on the train into the city!
We only had two hours before my lesson with Patty, but in those two hours I managed to take him to Mercado San Miguel for a vermouth and olives, around Plaza Mayor and Sol, up Gran Via and to 100 Montadidos for a snack (which accidentally turned into our breakfast, lunch and dinner for the day!). The whole time we spent chatting away and giggling, catching up on each others´ lives. It´s always cool to have those friends who you haven´t seen in a year (or two?? to be honest, I can´t actually even REMEMBER the last time I saw him?!?)... and, yet, it feels like you were just hanging out the other day! ^_^
He told me about his flying adventures and I told him about my teaching adventures. We shared notes on our recent travel adventures and giggled about memories from high school. Having a friend who´s known me so well walking the streets of the newest city I call home was surreal! :)
John came along to Patty´s class and sat there listening to us chit-chat and occassionally spoke up when we asked him a question or two. :) It was really cute to have him there - he´s one of those people you just know he´s not that into it, but he really wouldn´t want to be anywhere else in that moment. Haha!
After class neither of us were tired (jetlag for him, excitement for me), and so I headed to a bar my tightrope friend had told me to go to for a language exchange. I wasn´t sure it would still be going on, but when we got there it was packed! As I walked up to the place, I saw him standing in the door and notice me. He didn´t interrupt the conversation he was having abruptly by any means, but instead somehow smoothly went from talking to some guy to suddenly being right in front of me when I got to the counter.
Whoa.
Unsurprisingly, the night was lovely. At one point somebody asked John and me how long we´d known each other, and we were shocked to realize it´d been nine whole years! I told her how freaked I was when I met him, because he was a big, quiet guy with camo on... to which he immediately exclaimed that he was equally as freightened as I was, because he had no idea what to say to the cute new girl and didn´t want to mess things up the first day - hahaha!!! :) Cute!
XOXO
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