Last week I was busy with rental property searching for my friend. I finally received the call from real estate agent yesterday to confirm the lease. Now I feel better.
Speaking of this group of my friends, there are always some nice things to remember them by. Jane was from MC program and we have known each other for about 5 or 6 years. But in the first two years when we were studying in Beijing at this program, I rarely talked to her. She seemed to me very quiet and has few things in common with me. Additionally, she always sat in the very front at lectures, which means we didn't have good chance to sit together as my theory when I was a student was to keep enough distance with lecturers as big as possible.
Not surprisingly, I hardly saw her as my friend until one day when I found out she was also transfering from Beijing to Sydney within the program and we took on the same plane flying to Sydney at our very first time. When we got in Sydney, we didn't know many people around. It might be more accurate to say that I was stuck with her for some reasons in the beginning than I was willing to. However since I started knowing her, I was always surprised by. The more I knew her, the more I realized that what a nice person she is and how many things in common between us are indeed. In the first few months in Sydney, just as everyone else who left home first time for a country they've never been to, we were excited and scared at the same time, excited about all new things associated with a new country and our new feelings, but scared of uncertainties in future. We didn't get along all the time during years, but we become friends now, the friend who will be there when you feel down, will encourage you when you're not sure, will laugh with you when you're happy and will understand you when you're not understood by others.
Ran is a friend at my age, but maybe because of some quality she carries or she looks to carry, she was always like a team leader. I followed her 'leadership' to host a party or organized a trip and didn't feel anything unusual. One day someone reconed me to host a dumpling party. Based on my entry-level cooking skill at that time and the lack of confidence on other gals when I looked around, I complete had no idea what I was going to do for the party. While I was worrying, I saw Ran's confident face, then I immediately felt relieved. "There's no need for me to worry if Ran is here." I told myself. Then we made plan, invited guests to come and assigned the tasks to everyone. On the day of party, everything went on good and surpringly some girls were very good dumpling makers which I didn't notice before. We had a big team of people for making dumplings but I couldn't find Ran anywhere. In the end right before we finished cooking, Ran came to the table from like nowhere and spent 20 minutes trying to make one dumpling. Making dumplings seemed hard to her, but wasn't hard enough to stop her from making hard-working pose in pictures. It turned out that this one single dumpling was her whole contribution for the day. After party, we were talking. I said, "I can't believe you don't know how to make dumplings. Why you didn't tell me before?" She looked so innoccent and said, "I never said I know." Then I suddenly realized she's right. If there's anyone I should blame to for little tiny disorganization during the party, that would be me who assumed from her confident looking that she must be an expect of dumplings and everything will be good if we have her. This is just Ran. Don't be fooled by her lookings can be a tip for you if you get chance to know her.
There are other friends in this group, each of whom has specific details that I always miss when they're not around. I was so lucky to have these freinds and they have brought my life more colors. Life has ups and downs as usual, but the unusual thing is that a special friendship makes down time less bitter.
First posted at 13 September 2005
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