Hwa Won and I met up for
the first time at the Leon County Public Library. I’ve always loved the
library. I like being surrounded by shelves and shelves of books. The library
also makes for an excellent mutual meeting place.
Hwa Won and I
immediately just fell into conversation. We spoke of our families and discussed
where we were from. I described to Hwa Won how different Tallahassee is from
South Florida, where I mainly grew up.
You have to go north to
go south in Florida. Tallahassee, I told her, is more like “The South,” than
South Florida will ever be. South Florida is extremely ethnic, with many people
immigrating from South America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Eastern Europe. There
are also many people from the Northeast, like New Yorkers, Ohioans, and
Pennsylvanians. The cities tend to be urban sprawls of busy streets,
strip-malls, and tons of people. Tallahassee on the other hand, still holds
that southern charm and is not nearly as large of a city. Hwa Won was
interested in seeing South Florida though, and I recommended her to make a trip
down to Miami at some point.
We also somehow
journeyed onto the subject of art, and we found out that we both hold art
degrees! Hwa Won however has a master’s, where I only have a bachelor’s.
However, it was fantastic find out that we had so much in common artistically.
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