Winter (?) Wonderland

Hi Readers,

It's been a while, huh? I am sipping my Darjeeling tea and writing at the Lady K Cafe at Montague, MA. It's warm up here, I just saw in the weather forecast that it's only going to snow sometime next Tuesday. And I just finished with my finals, yep! I guess I've earned the right to be a teeny bit relaxed right now ;)

I never got the chance to put this story inside my blog, but early this semester my best friend Sho visited me from Brown. We met in the summer of 2014, when I was attending Princeton In Beijing. Sachou (lit. company president) is one of the funniest, nicest, and the most hentai person I've ever met. He's super relaxed and easygoing, and I truly enjoy hanging out with him. Anyways, when he was staying over at my place in Amherst, he introduced me to a bunch of ladies, including two Japanese first-years: One is studying in Mt Holyoke, and the other at Amherst. They are admittedly cute, and having spent a semester in Japan, I had a lot of things to relate to both of them.

It turns out that one of them rather enjoyed hanging out with me. I invited her to eat in Val with me on multiple occasions, and we've always had enjoyable conversations. I really appreciated her thoughts, her values, and her appreciation of my jokes. Somehow, I open up easily to her, and am able to talk about the things that mattered a lot in both of our lives. However, as this semester is a rather hectic one, I've never gotten the chance to get to know her really well, outside of the meals in Val.

Fast forward to a few days ago: I learned that she was leaving the day after our finals end, so I decided to ask her out for a dinner. We went to House of Teriyaki (I was craving some sun du bu and ttopokki) and had another nice chat. I didn't expect a lot from that dinner, but it turned out that she enjoyed red wine (money!) and was open to some drinks despite having to wake up early for her flight this morning, so I bought a bottle of a nice French fusion red wine after the dinner and invited her over. Honestly, it's been a while since I've had wine, and even more so having a girl over at my place. It was a good feeling; it's been a while that I had a nice female friend to exchange banters, share stories, and fire jokes at each other. It is a warm winter this winter, for sure.

It's not what you think, however, as I took her back to her room afterwards ;). ゆんちゃん、ありがとう! I had fun, and I look forward to hanging out again once you're back from Tokyo next semester. As I've told you, life is defined by moments, and moments like these, not the ones that happen in your Computer Science classes, are the ones that you will remember a long way down the road.

Now readers, tell me if you think she's the one from Amherst, or Mt. Holyoke?

Yours,
Rufus