I found out that the last exchange student who lived with my host family was also from Lancaster, PA. Of all the places in the US, it's weird that they keep getting students from Amish country!
When I was on my way home on the bus, the two young guys in front of me were speaking English. It's rare to hear English around Santiago, so I assumed they were fellow exchange students and asked where they were from. It turned out that both of them knew Dan, one of the AU students in my program, through a mutual friend. And when they found out I was from AU, they told me that they knew someone who was a student there -- one of them went to middle school with Steph, one of my friends from college! So crazy. I couldn't believe that I was making so many connections with random strangers on the micro.
Later that night, I went out to Bellavista with a group of people from my program. One of my friends brought along some people from another exchange program in Santiago...and one of them turned out to be a college student from Franklin & Marshall, which is the college down the street from my house in Lancaster where my dad and stepmom both teach math.
Next thing you know, I'll run into a Mennonite. Apparently anything is possible in this city.
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