Farsi

During our Unit [Dorm] Meeting for West Andrews, there was a girl in the row in front of me and a little bit too my left whose interesting fact was, "I speak Farsi." I thought that was really interesting and I remembered it because I thought I could talk to her about what she thought of US-Iran relations right now and that I would learn something interesting.

The whole unit went to dinner after that and she was sitting, again, just beyond me and a little bit to the left. I turned to her and said, "You're the one that speaks Farsi, right?" And she said yes, and I said, "Is your family Iranian?" It turns out they're actually from Afghanistan - which, though not what I expected, was equally interesting to me. So I talked to her for a while - probably a good thirty minutes - about Afghanistan, her family, how it affected her, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns. She said the stories in those books were the stories her parents told her about their childhood. She said that if I ever got around to reading The Kite Runner, I could talk to her about it and her experiences. I thought it was a pretty awesome experience and I was really glad I had met her.

She doesn't live on the same floor as me so I didn't see her around very often, but I'm pretty sure I saw her on the street a few times and I think we waved to each other.

Tonight she came to the 4th Floor and was just introducing herself. She walked into my room and said what she was doing, and I said, "Oh, yeah, I know you." And she said, "...you do?"

I didn't know what to think...

Peace out.