When I was in college I worked in the cafeteria in my dorm for a couple of years. My first semester I met Alexei, a Russian grad student who was also working in the caf. Alexei and I hit it off almost instantly, and truth be told I had a big crush on him until we discovered he was 10 years older than me and that was just too big a gap at that life stage. Age and crush aside, we had SO MUCH FUN working together, he has an awesome sense of humour and we would just laugh and laugh through our entire shift whenever we worked together. We would also try to get our breaks together so we could keep the conversation going.
Before I even finished my time at school Alex and I lost touch. When I moved off campus and he stopped working at the caf we drifted and lost track of each other. Until last month. I received a message in my inbox on Facebook asking if I was the same Rachel from Case Hall Caf... I was floored. Here was my crazy Russian again, I was so excited to hear from him! Alex is back in Russia now and I was glad to hear he is doing well and updates on his life. I asked for his address (snail mail) so I could make him a part of this project and today's mail is carrying off a letter to Russia with greetings, updates and photos!
I look forward to hearing back from him, whether online or via snail mail, I hope the letter arrives alright, he said Russian mail service can be pretty shady sometimes. In any case it's been very cool reconnecting with such a cool old friend :o)
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