My Improbable French Bestie
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I started to really work on improving my very rudimentary French skills a few months ago and I started using a phone app called Hellotalk which pairs you up with French speaking people who are trying to learn English. I started making friends with people all over the world, having basic multi-lingual chitchat with people in places such as the Ivory Coast, Algeria, Morrocco and of course France. One morning as I arrived at work, I received a message from someone new who wrote that they were from France and they were working as an Au Pair in Australia. After chatting we realised that we were in the same suburb of the same city less than 2 miles away from each other! I know for a fact that I don't share my location with the app and the only information it has is that I'm Australian. We soon met up and became friends after that. She believes in fate and says there is some reason behind us meeting, I don't but to me it's an outrageous fluke the likes of which I've never experienced in my life.
Date submitted:Sun, 28 Feb 2016 09:52:03 +0000Coincidence ID:8469
