Fili’s world

Two months before coming to Israel, while in Taiwan, I got an Email from a friend I previously worked with but haven’t been in touch with much ever since - Ori, saying that he’s been following my blog and that he feels something similar towards the east. When I came here, and found out about the Chinese Garden (link) I was welcomed to join the Hebrew University Chinese classes by two people, one was the Chinese teacher - Lin (Previous post on Lin can be found here) - and another someone suggesting the structure of the Hebrew University classes and how he did the same thing a year ago when coming back from China. Although I was given clues several times along the way, it was only when I met with Ori, that I was told that he was that someone from the forums who’s been to China, fell in love with everything-Chinese and started classes at the Hebrew university. I gathered, from both the Chinese Garden and attending Chinese Class at uni, that Ori and Lin are good friends. He’ll probably be going for a year in China at the end of this semester. Is it only chance that we went through something similar? I donno.

Either way, in the past month and a bit since I came back to Israel, I’ve had the pleasure of spending time with Lin and Ori and it has always cheered me up. It has something to do, ofcourse, with the fact that it involves Chinese studies, but also in that to me Ori and Lin are very unique people, each in his own special way, and they make me feel very cozy and comfy. They’ve made my return to Israel a little easier for me. I’m glad that we met.