Hallmark moment

Have you ever met someone…? (Let me finish before you say well yeah duh!!) Who you instantly connected with? You know one of those persons who your first impression of was oh she seems quiet and sweet and then all of a sudden BAM! She explodes right in your face and it’s like a breath of fresh air because you finally found someone who gets YOU. Well if your answer is yes ,what a lucky person!if your answer is no, well feel free to laugh at me, I know how cheesy I sound, because someday it’ll happen to you and let me tell you you’ll just want to laugh some more, might as well get a head start. Let’s reminisce now, once upon a time (image starts to waver and you magically get transported to one of my memories) I went to a medical mission trip as a translator (yes I’m a good like that and yes I am modest … I know you’re raising your brow right now) at Huehuetenango with the team of HELPS international. They are from Minnesota and basically they volunteer to come help the people in need of medical assistance who can’t afford it here at my country and they are really good hearted people who don’t receive anything in return for helping and they still keep coming and paying all their expenses, just thought I’d mention this since it never hurts to mention the good things that are happening today. Back to my story, well as I already mentioned I was volunteering as a translator and there were a group of us, two of which were from Minnesota .Enter Kenzie and Megan, when I first saw them they were sitting with the rest of the crew in a table apart from ours.  Kenzie is this pretty girl with short,boyish,baby soft, brown reddish hair with big brown eyes framed by beautiful long lashes and a fair face with a huge smile who was wearing a hot pink band’s t-shirt almost always and if you asked her about it she’d just laugh and say “ Everybody keeps  asking me if I’m a fan! In fact it is a really lame band and I just wear it because it’s comfy! Oh no wait! I can’t know if they are lame because I haven’t even heard them yet!”And then she’d laugh some more, she is that girl you can share the goofiest parts of yourself without looking stupid, she was always smiling and singing and you always saw her face lit up, oozing energy and I just couldn’t help feeling the same way when I was around her even if I was feeling down .While Megan with her blond curly untouched , pony tail styled hair, small eyes, fair skin and coy smile always with her camera at hand and her signature soccer team t-shirt was a bit of a tomboy, she was usually quiet but when you got to know her you just couldn’t help smiling, she is the down-to-earth, humble, adventurous girl who can definitely make you laugh with her silliness and knows what she wants and is up for anything new and let me tell you she definitely knows how to get by with Spanish while Kenzie always proudly accepted she didn’t  speak Spanish she spoke clear spanglish thank you very much. They both had something in common though and I can’t really put a finger on it but I could relate with both of them. We just instantly bonded and I felt so very comfortable around them all the time. Yeah we are girls, so we giggled, we sang, we braided our hair, we took funny pictures, we danced, we talked and played with the kids at the recovery room and much much more. There was this one time, our last night at the mission, when Kenzie and I were heading back to our rooms and we were singing “blinded the light” hand gestures and eyes closed kind of singing( I know everyone has done it ha!) and we were laughing and suddenly the atmosphere changed and Kenzie got quiet and I asked her “What’s wrong?” and she said “ Well,nothing really it’s just sad because I have had the greatest time here and I met you guys and you are just different from my  friends back home and I just feel like I love them but it will never be the same as it is here with you guys”, by the last word we were both already crying and I was telling her how I totally got her .And it is just so unexplainable and amazing when  friendship develops out of nowhere  even though you have had such different lives, different backgrounds, different cultures, different languages. Who knows maybe it was because we were secluded back there or maybe if we lived in the same country it would’ve been a beautiful friendship but that’s how life is and now we all look back and think what an amazing experience it was and at least I know I’ll never forget it even though we are very far away now  and may not always keep in touch.I’ll never forget because it taught me not to be afraid of something new and different because I know sometimes people scare us and new experiences do too and the experiences we are afraid of are exactly the ones we will never forget and will bring you the greatest experiences, in life if you take a chance and open up and get to know the persons who appear in your life you always take a piece of them with you and this forms you this makes you grow. The world has a way of turning our lives into books sometimes and it is always good to know that we humans will always have those little and unforgettable hallmark moments no matter where we come from.