Once upon a time (in July 2002), two young girls met in Paris at Alliançe Française. Karolina and Susin, two international students; one from the Czech Republic, one from Australia, became friends. This is the story of the reunion five years later…. Yes, it finally happened. My first reunion with one of my friends that I met while overseas oh so many lifetimes ago. Karolina and I have kept email contact with each other ever since our month together studying in Paris, and just this week I got to see her again in the flesh for the first time in almost five years! Just like me, Karolina is doing a study abroad program but hers is in Belgium, one of the other French speaking European countries. She lives in a little town called Louvain-la-Neuve Ottignes, just
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