it's a very small world

[dancingyel]

the weirdest thing happened to me today...i'm walking down castro, going grocery shopping, when i hear my name, in russian, being called. now, i had just passed someone who i thought looked maybe vaguely familiar, but i really couldn't place her, so i didn't really try. besides, i was looking forward to getting food and going home to nap. but i heard my name, so i turned around and walked over to the girl, and she says, "do you remember me?" of course, i don't, but to make a long story short, it turns out that we went to first and second grade together, in odessa. how odd is that? and she totally recognized me, too! apparently, i look the same as i did in the first grade photo. awesome. heh.

she was hanging out with her (gay) best friend at a bar called, very appropriately, the bar. i joined them for a nearly 2 hours, chatting and being generally amused. they're both very russian, but also quite nice. and at the very end of the conversation, i mentioned dancing, and the guy, leo, got really excited and said that he has a friend who's one of the top amateur dancers (rene is his name, i've seen him dance) and he (leo) wants to take lessons from him (rene) and do i need a partner and would i like to dance with leo? and i said yes and we exchanged phone numbers and we'll see what happens of it. wow! excitement! and weirdness.

so now i have a headache from the cigarette smoke and phone numbers for a girl with the same name as me from first grade and a gay boy who wants to dance with me. oh, and a business card from a salon where one of leo's friends, who ran into us, works. it's a strange world.

Comments

[thinknikki.livejournal.com]

that is SO COOL!!

[elinoa.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes it is awesome! And look who else i found...

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

hehehe...the connections never stop.

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

yeah, isn't it? i'm still amazed about it this morning.

[threadwalker.livejournal.com]

serendipity in action. Awesome. Also that 6 degrees thing. I've had some pretty amazing run-ins myself. I think one of the better ones was bumping into a friend from high school in the Marseiless airport after he got kicked off a Harvard singing tour. We were on the same plane back to London.

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a pretty amazing coincidence, running into the friend in another country. isn't it funny how these things work out? and to top it all off, it also turned out that leo (the boy) knows my old tennis teacher from when i was in high school and is good friends with his younger brother. weirdness!

Castro?

[shakauvm.livejournal.com]

Elaine,

Wait, you live in San Francisco now? I have to admit I added you to my Live Journal friends list after we gave you a ride back down to San Diego after the Yaoi HobbitCon (or whatever you called it), but never really checked your journal. Huh.

Yeah, so Macy and I live in San Francisco now. She lives in Sunset district, I live in Daly City. Taking Conversational Mandarin classes in Castro though (CCSF has a branch campus there in a middle school), so it could have easily been me running into you around there. How weird.

Re: Castro?

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

heh. yeah, i'm back in san francisco now. i guess i knew you and macy were both here, but it didn't really process. my parents also live in the sunset, so it's nearly as likely that i might run into macy while visiting them. it really is a small world...

and no, not Yaoi HobbitCon. hehe. but close, at least for a lot of the participants.