Second Bon Air Meeting

To be completely honest I was not at all looking forward to going to Bon Air. I had been having a pretty rough weekend and just didn’t really feel like having to tell stories. Despite my original unwillingness to go, this trip was probably the highlight of my weekend. The whole process of getting there was similar to the first time, except we took a bus rather than going in Professor Dolson’s car. The guards were friendly as they were before. We arrived into the library before the students at Bon Air, and talked a bit about what we were going to be focusing on doing. Once they did get there, we said everyone’s names again and talked about what we remembered about each other. I was surprised once again by Eric as he had remembered at least one thing about everyone. He remembered that I am from Connecticut, which was quite touching to me because even though he knows I’ve lived in Virginia for the past four years I never really consider myself from Virginia. When people ask me where I’m from I never really know how to answer the question because of this feeling, and Eric was one of the few people who actually remembered this in the way I would explain it. The first story that we told was of a first day of school. Eric and I spoke of our first days of high school. Neither of us had a good experience so we were able to connect over that. The second story was of an event that happened in school or something about school that makes us who we are today. I found myself telling a story that I typically do not tell anyone simply because of how integral it is to my entire life. I’m still surprised that I told it and feel bad because I don’t think the amount of time I had to tell it in was enough to really do it justice. At one point early on during this meeting I was trying to open my snack but it was making a lot of noise and I stopped. Eric noticed this and we both looked at each other and laughed. As I had said, my weekend was not a particularly pleasant experience and that was the first time I had laughed since Thursday. I feel bad because to me it seems I got more out of the experience than Eric did. I had meant to thank him but I never got the chance.