"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold."
I learned this simple song when I was a Brownie in Girl Scouts about a bajillion years ago, but it does capture well our evening today. Two old friends from the US visited our home for a few days on their summer travels in Central Asia and we hosted a farewell party that, in a typical life abroad way, also turned into a welcome party. Through our old friends and friends of friends of friends of friends, we ended up making new connections with several Kazakhs and hosted them together for an evening of stories, food, and laughter. I felt good to have a warm circle around us in our new home, and I cannot wait util we meet again - whether it be in the streets of Astana or somewhere else in the world. As it was a mid-week gathering, we joked that the best time to meet again would be sometime closer to Friday. Indeed, I hope it is so.
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