Super exciting day..   My old friend and ‘hausbrudder” (if thats a word) Selim and his daugher Helena arrived in vermont. Selim was  the son of my House parents Helga and Necat Erol when I was an exchange student in Vienna Austria in 1979-80.. At the time Selim and his sister Karin were 8 years old.. together with their brothers Murat and Osman they were like family to me..  here we aare all Selim is the one over to the left of the picture together at the  Erols country house  in Meisenbach on 1984 or 85

We’ve stayed connected over the years..   especially me and my Hausfrau Helga who died in 2016 :

Selim is now a professor and the department head of the industrial design department at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt. Last November I went  and visited him in Wiener Neustadt and gave a talk..  and got to see his whole family again.

This time he and his wonderful 18 year old daughter Helena are traveling in the north east of the US.  Its so fun to have them here

Earlier in the day I got to hang out with two new friends.. Here are Mathew and Malachi.. Mathew has been working for our friends Deb and Hannah.. and Malachi is a high school intern at Beta/. Both cam e and helped us on the bus !

I also got to give matthew a tour of beta

nice to hang out with them.. you never know when new friends can turn in to old friends.. it’s fun when they do !

nite all, nite sam

-me