I just got off the phone with my father. He is in the Houston, TX airport, about to board a plane for Buenos Aires, and subsequently Santiago. This is a trip with my mother scheduled probably about a year ago… well BEFORE we knew that Christopher was going to be in Chile. Of course Santiago is over 500 miles from where Chris is living. But, to add even more irony to the situation, Christopher’s host family is travelling to Santiago tomorrow, and staying through the 20th! Their daughter is leaving as an AFS exchange student to Japan for one year. (can you imagine flying from Santiago to Tokyo? What a marathon!)
We’ve been trying to coordinate a meeting, which is difficult between three parties and over 70 degrees of Latitude, even with email and cellular phones! My father finally confirmed, just prior to boarding, that he has spoken with Christopher, and his host-father Gerardo, and they have made the arrangements. I had my dad pick up a book to bring down to Chris, as it seems he has almost run out of reading material (which made up half of his luggage!)
I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Oh, the photo above is Christopher, in an especially geeky teen-age moment, during the Seattle Jaguar Club’s Mt. Rainier drive a few years ago. It has no relation to any of the above, I just figured the post needed a picture of Chris. 😉
amazing coincidence Chuck
I was part of one years ago when I worked for BP Oil in early 80’s – a summer temp student worked for me for a while and then she took some time off to travel to Europe. my older brother had been overseas for a few years and was doing one of his driving holidays around Europe…
they both managed to bump into each other and talk while walking on a beach in Lisbon, Portugal of all places – the accents made them chat to each other… and she worked out that she worked with this guys brother!! small world indeed…
Jerome