New Friends

Awhile ago, when Portland was just still in the plannings, Vince and I thought about renting a house with one other person or something. I began searching on craigslist and roommate.com. I found 1 add on craigslist I liked, he was 29, had a friendly dog, and was also thinking about attending WCI, so I responded to him and we began emailing back and fourth regularly. Well Vince and I ended up finding a 1 bedroom and Joel (the guy from the add) desided to stay in Ohio and not move to Oregon. Every now and then I would get and email from him asking how school was going and whatnot. I would also randomly email him just dropping in to say hi and stuff. I found out his dad lived in Olympia, Wa. and he was wanting to come out to visit him and we touched on meeting up for coffee or something. Well last week he flew into Seattle, Wa. where his dad piced him up. He spen 1 night at his dads house, and then came out to see me. Last Thursday we met up, I picked him up from the train station and him, Kellen and myself went to lunch, Joel and I hung out that night and he met Vince. His friend from Sherriden Oregon came and picked him up and he stayed the weekend out there. Today he came back into Portland and we hung out some more, he's a really cool guy and we had a lot of fun hanging out. He reminds myself a lot of me, and it makes me miss how I used to travel a lot and meet new people. We went down and walked through the Pearl and he took some cool pictures, we grabbed lunch and coffee. We were caught in the rain and got soaking wet! Eventually we made our way back to the train station and I saw him off. He is headed up to Olympia, Wa. (well actually he's probably just arriving, lol) right now, but unfortunately he is ending his vacation early. Him and his dad are headed on a flight to Florida tomorrow morning because he found out his Grandmother is not doing well. We plan to stay in touch, in fact he want to move to SoCal since the industry is good for what he does out there. I love making new friends!