Having been at CCSF for the last 4 months has been mind numbing. There hasn't been much social interactions for me aside from talking with cashiers and such. My body language and behavior is socially acceptable though I did trip up from time to time. Otherwise, the days just keep zooming by like one big blur.
There is one thing I found odd though. In the last few months, I keep on seeing people I've met in past at CCSF. One guy is named Steven, and I remember him from back in high school. We don't know each other personally, but he was considered a class clown back in one of my high school classes. I walked past him one day and didn't see him again. There was another person I recognized at CCSF and I bumped into her several times on campus. I don't know her name but she was in my Chinese class back in high school.
There are two other more significant people who I've bumped into.
One is Largo Luong. He and I were friends a long, long time ago back when I was still a freshmen in highschool. He and I met in summer school. He was hilarious back then but now he's completely different. He's super thin now and has a major receding hairline. Also, strangely, it seems like he has some sort of speech impediment. Really weird seeing him like this. He doesn't recognize me and I didn't recognize him at first until the professor called his name, and then everything clicked into place. Wonder what happened to him throughout the last six years.
Another person of significance is Christina M. Han. The craziest thing about her is that she and I have been side by side this whole time but never knew it. She and I went to the same middle school together and I remember being assigned the seat next to her in gym class, and she and I had the same English class together. At the time she also had a crush on my friend Kevin Kwong. In high school, we didn't have the same classes but we both had the same friend, Brian Hooang. She would constantly ask him for bubble gum. After graduating from high school, we both went to CCSF. I remember taking bus everyday and always seeing her standing just a couple of feet away. After a couple months, she disappeared, and while I took note, I thought nothing of it.
Then she pops back up again at UCSD. When I was still dealing with my social anxiety in my previous blog, I finally made a facebook account and started searching for people I knew in the past. For some reason her name popped up and I decided to check out her profile. It turns out she was at UCSD the entire time, majoring in creative writing and working at the Sunshine Market. Again, I brushed it off and thought it was cool. I then saw her a month ago out on the street when I was going to CCSF. A few weeks later I saw her again, this time at CCSF, with her walking to class. Both of us back here again. What a coincidence. Huh.
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