Somebody get me my crystals...

So, talking to strangers has really become one of my favorite hobbies in France. I do it a lot. Many times alcohol is involved; many times it isn't. Pretty much any time you leave me alone for 5 minutes, I'm going to have a conversation with someone. I've met a lot of people, some I've liked more than others. They have been mostly men, this is France after all, but very few of them were men I was actually interested in. Though many of my encounters have been brief, I really felt a connection with a few of them, particularly Vincent, François (whose brother is a monk), and Christophe...which brings me to my need for crystals.

I met Christophe on Thursday while I was visiting one of the homeless people I met doing my volunteer work. Christophe just came and sat down with us. After discussing for a while, he invited me to have a coffee with him. He didn't have enough money on him, so instead of coffee he just walked me to my next stop, the grocery store, and we exchanged numbers. He said he would help me look for a job, and sure enough, he left a message Thursday night to ask for my e-mail address to send me the link to a couple job postings. I didn't call back until today, and in addition to sending me the websites, he invited me to go have a coffee.

I just want to add a couple things before going on. First, he told me right away he wasn't trying to hit on me, which reassured me. He's perhaps a little old for me, and I wasn't interested in that way at all. Part of what made me feel comfortable around him was that he looks a lot like Steve Ulrich, my dad's best friend. I think he may be similar in personality too, and that makes me happy.

So, crystal-carrying hippie...Christophe talked a lot about energy and colors of energy and similar energies, and I LOVE that kind of thing. Just ate it all up! You know, I'm still half waiting to end up in an Ashram somewhere or on some sort of commune. And I don't know if I've said it publicly or not, but I think I'm destined to some day change the world, to make it a better place to live. I don't know if it'll be in a big way or a small way or when, but it will happen. Anywho, Christophe reminded me of a few very important things:

-Have faith that the Universe is out to give you the best of what life has to offer

-Ask the Universe for what you need rather than what you want. Sometimes the results you get are bigger than what you could have imagined.

-Believe you are worth all amounts of wonderfulness and success.

-Don't be afraid.

-Just be/go with the flow/"surf" as he said.

He also said I had the same energy as Johnny Hallyday in a different manifestation, which is really kind of funny if you know who Johnny Hallyday is. Anyway, after all of that, I sat in the kitchen with a friend from the dorm, and we were saying we wanted chocolate and to do something but couldn't figure out what and didn't want to move. Then, another guy from the dorm came in, and we started talking. We all decided to have tea in her room, and the guy brought chocolate plus we spent the rest of the evening hanging out and asking Trivial Pursuit questions. The Universe brought us everything we wanted. I'm a believer :)