It's a small world!

Today, I was riding in Hadley's car, coming back from lunch with a big group of friends. Hadley lives with Tim and Matt, and they are all young lawyers working over here with the Ministry of Justice. Hadley is helping write and translate laws in English, and I have no idea what the others do! :) I've known these guys since October. They live about 5 minutes from me, and Hadley is in my Bible Study too.

I knew that they all had a 4th roommate who came in November, but for some reason I had never met this 4th roommate until today. Her name is Muna, and we got to chatting, and then Tim somehow interjected and asks me when my birthday is. This is always a fun question, cause everyone is usually so surprised it's New Year's Day, like it's a big deal or something. Then I get to say how I was the first baby born in Cabarrus County in 1981, and how I won some prizes and my picture was in the paper. Whoop-te-do. :-) But it's fun to talk about.

So, I told em' the story, and as soon as I said, Cabarrus County, Muna says, where? I said Cabarrus County. And she said, Kannapolis or Concord? Usually, I have to go through the whole spiel about how I'm from North Carolina, and when people say where, I say, in the middle, right outside of Charlotte. That's the only place most folks have heard of. But to hear someone ask me Kannapolis or Concord was crazy! I said Kannapolis, and Muna says that she moved to Concord with her family when she was 14 and she graduated from Northwest Cabarrus Highschool in 1999! Wow! We graduated the same year from rival schools. I told her I used to teach at the Middle School too. Small world! She also went to university at Davidson.

We chatted some more, and she just went back there at Christmas to visit! She's been living in New York, but her folks still live in Concord. Dad is an accountant and mom is a nurse. It was weird hearing her say how she used to live near Carolina Mall, but now lives further out near the Speedway, and how her sister went to Robinson. Landmarks from home! Whoa! Love it! She asked where I lived, all I had to say was, do you know where the KFC is on 29 and she knew! Tim was rolling, and laughing at our smalltownness. :-)

Muna is out here also working for the Ministry of Justice. Such a small world! Who would have ever thought?? I love it!