One Sunday I missed my normal bus back to my village. I tried a second option, which was getting on a busy to Odessa, Ukraine which would drop me off on the outside of my village. It was my first time trying this route. I tried to talk to the driver of the bus I wanted to take, but he was from the Ukraine and did not know Romanian.
There was a man on the bus that knew English and helped translate for me. The man and I started talking and he is a Ukrainian citizen with Bulgarian heritage. He lives in Odessa, Ukraine and Seattle, USA; he has a little finance business in the Ukraine and has worked in business and for a missionary organization in the US. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian and English. It was very interesting to talk to and to hear about his experiences. His daughter teaches Russian at a university in Seattle. I also learned that the Ukraine does not allow its citizens to have dual citizenship.
I love random meetings with people, especially when they have some kind of a connection with you like language or country. There are always such fun stories. The world continually gets smaller.
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