there is a different green

Hmm... there was a Nikolay I met in one of the firsts language camps I went to, in Finland, 2006. a cool enough dude, and we kinda formed a company of friends together. I think I felt a little outside that group, plus they mostly were from Moscow, and only me and one other girl were from SPb, anyway. we met up in SPb at the language camp meeting later and decided to all go to a winter camp :D Which was yeah, very nice. I think I was still a bit of an outsider at the time, buuut these people were very nice. He had a friend of the same name, and they mostly go together in my mind xD I remember hugging them very tightly when we parted after coming back to SPb.

the most amazing thing is not that, though. my friend from Moscow (a proper friend this time, made online, originally), while looking through my friends on vkontakte (russian facebook) saw him and went, “.....that’s the guy I went to elementary school with.” i was like, “no way.”

well guess fucking what, when a year or two later i came to moscow, and my friend met me on the railway station and we were making our way out, we chanced upon him with that original circle of friends, and of course we were all “whoa hey”, BUT THEY RECOGNISED EACH OTHER, my friend and him. like. whoa.

Tanya is the name of one of the first three people I befriended on the Internet, back in... 2004? 2005? 2004, I think. Anyway, yeah, we met on this forum for a series of... russian books, and we both wrote fics. she was only three years older than me, but like, I was 10-11, and she was 13-14, SO. she’d been a very big influence for me, leading me to join liveinternet (a blogging platform, very... stupid place, a place with a stupid reputation xD) and then diary, where I remain to this day :) and she introduced me to many other things, like anime (I watched just a couple, but that was intense!) and some very important books (in my life), including Max Frei’s stuff, which led to me meeting maybe the most influential people in my life. :D So yeah. We lived very far from each other, me in SPb, her in Irkutsk. but we met a couple of times, later, when we didn’t communicate that much! It was nice, and she was always very cool. We still follow each other on diary, though rarely talk nowadays.