Baby Baby it's a Wild World.

So, in the past week, I've had more small world encounters than I have in my entire stay in Belgium, and I really felt the need to share.

It all started in the Canary Islands when I met some people at a local bar, and we started talking.  We did the whole "where are you from?" game and find out they're from Switzerland.  When I said that I was from California, one of the guys goes "oh I have family in San Francisco" so of course, I ask where in SF.  Apparently they live in a city next to Palo Alto where I work, and he knew a lot of the San Jose and San Francisco suburbs. SO RANDOM.

SECOND small world encounter was at this super sweet club this past wednesday (no class on thursday this week so of course I went out!) It went a little something like this:

Random Guy: Hey where are you from?
Me: Oh I'm from Los Angeles
Random Guy: Really? Where in Los Angeles? I have cousins in Burbank.
Me: No way? I live right by Burbank!
...Random Guy: GLENDALE?!
Me: Why yes, actually..
Random Guy: Okay, I bet you know what ethnicity I am then!
Me: Uhh Armenian?
Random Guy: YES! You probably know a lot of Armenians huh? What are the most common names? Armen and Vahae?
Me: uh yes?
Random Guy: And all the Armenians guys drive BMWs and smoke cigarettes (pronounced see-guh-rettes)?

 We then continued to discuss KROQ's "Brow Down" video and other various Glendale related things.  

FINALLY, I was at the VeCo talent show last night, and my history professor (the Ecuadorian Barbie one) was there so I started chatting with her.  She asked if I was a study abroad and where I was from, so of course I told her Los Angeles.  Come to find out she lived in Los Angeles for a short period of time, and being from "LA"myself I asked where in LA she lived. GLENDALE. Of all the places in the world, my professor who is originally from Ecuador, and has lived in Belgium for 15 years, lived in Glendale, CA.

This def set me over the edge with small worldness.  My mind is blown how ridiculously small this world can be.