So, Paris is awesome, and I’ve wanted to go there for quite some time, but the real carrot of the trip was friends. The first few days of my trip I spent my time with two amazing people who happen to be my housemates, another amazing person who goes to my university but with whom I haven’t spent enough time, and a former fellow UP student who I hadn’t seen in over a year. The first three I will obviously be seeing again in the fall, but Andrew actually lives in Germany now, so I probably won’t be seeing him for quite some time.

Then several days after my friends and I had to part ways, I saw someone even more exciting! (though perhaps I shouldn’t say that, he always did have a big head as it is, no need to make it even bigger). Any Glenwoodians reading this may remember a certain skinny dark-haired Finnish boy who graced our town with his presence between about August 2010 and June 2011. That’s right. Emil Bulut. I tracked that kid down. I think I’m actually the first Glenwoodian to see him in two years…. It was pretty freaking awesome!

It’s of course always interesting though…. people change in two years…. not always a lot, but enough. If he hadn’t have been looking for me as well, I may have passed over the tallish dark haired guy sitting outside…. But he was looking for me, and despite a change of hair and glasses, I quickly adjusted, and we were (more or less) back to old times.

Talking about two-year old gossip from a small town high school in Iowa while you’re in one of the biggest cities in Europe…. Well, that is one way to give yourself a massive head-trip.

Me with my old friend Emil and his friend Juho