new friend

I hung out with my new friend today. He's from Chile and is really enthusiatic about everything here, choosing to focus on the positive instead of feeling homesick. We were happy to find each other as friends since we're both new here. We are on a similar wavelength. And I was happy to listen to him talk about this crush he has. It was really sweet, and made it clear that things are platonic. 

We speak in Spanish and English, mixed, since we both need to improve our skills. I showed him the library and he was blown away--there is nothing like it in South America. The concept of libraries is fantastic, and the library here is really great. I helped him get his first library card.