Nimic nu este întâmplător

Here is a picture of us at the apartment of some of our first friends in Cahul, Alexandru (Sasha) and Olesea and their son Oliver. Sasha is one of Jessica's two partner teachers. He and his wife met working at a youth center (similar to Jess and I) here in Cahul. Sasha was at that first site-visit in July where we sat in the director's office at her school and in broken Romanian showed pictures of all of our family and friends and spoke about our dreams and accomplishments. For a first meeting (and for cultural norms) we were a bit too accessible about our lives. Yet, my memory of Sasha is that he was just very quiet and attentive. Shortly before we left the school, Sasha said to us, "nimic nu este întâmplător" (nothing is of chance). "Întâmplător? We said." But after a few minutes of cognating we understood. When Sasha later lead us to our bus to head back to our summer host families he also said that our arrival here was like two "seminţe păpădie" carried by the wind and then mimed a little child blowing the seeds of a dandelion. We love spending time with Sasha and Olesea. They live on so little but have very spacious and vibrant souls. We are very grateful for their friendship here in Moldova.