A number of people have asked us how we know each other, and probably none of the people who we meet in the future will read this webpage, but I thought I´d tell the story anyways.
Jordan and I met in Canberra,
Canberra, thanks to http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9904/11/care.spy/australia.canberra.jpg
the very small capital of Australia, in Year 8 at Canberra High School, when we were about 13 years old. Her family had just moved down from Queensland….for her dad´s work? Hmmm…have to check that one. I had grown up in Canberra since I was 2 so I´d pretty much say I grew up in Canberra.
We stayed friends for those 3 years of high school, and when we went to different colleges (in Canberra this is the final 2 years after High School when you´re between 16 and 18) we still stayed friends and hung out with the same people (although Jordan was actually a roller blade-er. I just watched).
In Years 11 and 12, at college, a Norwegian exchange student, Sis, came to my school to study for 10 or 12 months. Towards the end of her stay, knowing that I was planning on going to France for a while in the next year, before going to University, she bet that I wouldn´t make it to Norway for Christmas, and I bet I would. I won the bet, and somewhere in the planning stages of that Jordan decided she wanted to come along too.
Jordan and I travelled together for 3 months from the end of 1995, starting in Europe, going through Scandinavia in winter, which I loved and Jordan shivered through, and we finished in Italy where there was blue sky and sun and birds all around. We managed to travel together for 3 months, always in each others´pockets, so we figured we could travel together again, but this time for 6 months! Jordan copes well in the heat and humidity and I like the cold, so there´s always someone who can take charge of the situation!
We have kept in touch over the 15 years or so between travels, through job changes, life changes and moving cities, and I reckon we can look forward to many more years of friendship.
