Getting to Know Our Neighbors

We attended a lively party tonight, thrown by our apartments' management. There was an international buffet dinner, live music (accordion and guitar), and dancing (international group dances with easy steps, taught by an instructor). We met some very interesting people. Helen, an English professor at Harvard, is here through June on Sabbatical. She is working on a book focusing on 100 Emily Dickinson poems (I guess there are 2500 poems and part of her job is whittling it down to 100). We also met a couple from South Africa, here on Sabbatical. There is a couple from Singapore who moved here for a professorship at the Technical University. They decided to move all their furniture with them, but are having a hard time because the apartment dimensions here don't work with the sizes of their things. (Whew, close one! That could have been us!) And Daisy made an Italian friend, Francesco, who turned 1 year old in January. They played with Daisy's blocks and held hands. I hope to get together with his mother a couple of times before we leave. I couldn't think of a good "American" dish to bring to the buffet...mini-hamburgers?...so I just brought fruit: dates, cherries, strawberries, and raspberries. That's kind of CA, right?