The Cogwheels of Connexion

As we move forward from place to place to and fro in our infinite complaisance as Morgan Freeman narrated so beautifully in the War of the Worlds, we continually are adding new threads and new connections to the web we call our social network. We move forward and with every new face we see or with every hand we shake we weave and work another string into our neuronetwork that results in the complicated brain complexes we have inside our heads. And even so, sometime down the road if these pathways are unused or undone in any kind of way, then they will inevitably break down and dissolve into series of nothingness until a new face or circumstance allows us to recall the pathway into existence. The day before yesterday I met two new such connections with my next door neighbors Matze and Tabea as they stood outside and smoked a cigarette and I was coming back from undoing a connection of my own with one of the Romanian girls, Petra. On the way back, Matze informed me that he has always had such a wish to communicate with me but never found the time or the willpower to initate such a conversation. However my being there at 3 in the morning next to him inspired him to move with such confidence that he was compelled to talk to me. Next thing I know I'm in his living room with Tabea and the three of us are having conversation and laughing at the craziness of the world as we bullshit our way into the next morning. I'm just pissed that he chose now to try and make this connection cause there's no way it could be lasting when I only have 2 weeks left here in this country. So that connection is slowly dissolving in my mind. My only worry is that I hope I can maintain some of the other ones that I've made here. I'd especially like to keep a few with the Romanians and Zana and friends. It'd be nice. I think that there are a few definites that I will not lose track of, Zana being one them. She's so great. I'm very happy that I did come here even though the situation has been full of shit since before I got here. I think it's an experience that everyone should get to do once. I'm just happy I got to do before I finished school.

The other connection included this random Spanish chica who Skyped me randomly yesterday. Turns out she's studying English in Madrid where she's from, and she never gets to practice, so here's my cue. So we have this arrangement now (after having the longest Spanish conversation of my life for two and a half hourss) where she helps me with Spanish and I help her with her English. Olé! But this is only one part of my blog. The other part you guys don't get to see. Sorry!