Carol got hooked up with with an online "gringos" group and planned a beach weekend away. I complained that I wasn't super stoked to hang out with a bunch of Americans but I went anyway because that's what you do. Turns out I was wrong of course. The gringos weren't a bunch of Americans, the common thread was that they were people who spoke English. First we picked up a French Canadian most recently from Cambodia. Then we met up with Two Brazilians, two Germans and a partridge in a pair tree. Kidding. And a person from Lebanon and a person from Norway, plus there was me and Carol and someone else from the US. The multi-cultural event featured two days of pouring rain (pictured) so we got to spend a lot of time together and it was great because shooting the shit with diverse people isn't something we've done a lot of. It should be though because people from other countries are super interesting and have amazing stories and just talking is a way to learn and gain perspective and challenge prejudice.
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