Arkadaşlar (Friends)
This year we have enjoyed spending time with old friends, catching up on the years lost to distance and learning from them. Sitting with a friend from high school over fancy pastries and hearing about her career as a blogger; taking a ride in a Cessna plane over rural Colorado; seeing the beauty of cultural discovery and unlikely friendships of a friend who has been tutoring an Afghan woman in English. It has been a year of new friendships too. The Parent Teacher Association of the kids school recently hosted a drive-in movie night. We had a great time sitting in our car, munching popcorn and enjoying Lego Movie 2 with a bunch of other families. Before the movie Sofia ran around with her kindergarten friends with a huge smile on her face. After the movie she asked if one of her friends could come over for a sleepover. Particularly as Wyoming state's Covid restrictions ease, opportunities for socialization expand. The bitter-sweet side of the nomadic third-culture life is that as