The Crew.
My sister Sabrina has been living in Beijing since she graduated from college minus one year while she was getting her masters in the UK. And she has developed an amazing group of friends here.
There’s something special and amazing about an ex-pat community. When I go out with my own friends in NYC and meet other people’s friends, I usually don’t take their phone numbers or plan to start hanging out with them. In Beijing, I’m constantly making new friends.
Everyone here is connected to everyone else through no more than one degree of separation and everyone becomes friends with everyone else. I exchange phone numbers with almost everyone I meet and then put them in my phone with an “@ Spark” or wherever I met them. I’ve made as many new friends since I arrived in Beijing five weeks ago than in my last 7 years in NYC combined.
Also, I love these people.
I’m glad you are so enthusiastic about making new friends. When you were a toddler we used to talk a lot about including; I’m glad you are included and including in Beijing! I’m also glad I have gotten to spend some time with Sabrina’s and your friends in China–I can see why you love them!
I am 66 years old and have accumulated more ex-bff’s than ex-husbands, often due to someone moving or other lifecycle events. I now have a bfbf.
For more on making friends, check out my blog Confessions of a Worrywart http://bit.ly/OdObn2
XO <3!
MOM
As for making friends,