Kim- Conversacion y Estrellas

Please ignore the title- I'm more familiar with Spanish than Portuguese, but I'm learning! Two nights ago, I went up to the upstairs patio with two boys that live in the Residence that we are staying at; Vicente and Hugo. We went up to watch the stars, and gosh, it was absolutely beautiful. The sky was very clear, which is apparently very rare here in the islands; I believe it, because the weather here is completely bipolar. It will be cloudy and cold one minute, and warm and sunny the next. The light pollution also wasn't an issue for the star gazing, since we were also up high. Anyway, it was really fun just talking and having great conversation, about space, aliens, culture, languages, people, time...lots of subjects, even though all our primary languages are different (mine is Vietnamese/English, Vicente is Spanish, and Hugo is Portuguese). It was fun to talk, and when we came across a word that someone didn't understand, we would translate and figure it out, and then the conversation continued. It just reinforces that people can always relate to each other, and that language doesn't have to be a barrier. I mean, if I can do it here, it should never be a problem back at home, where the majority of the population speaks English. Good conversation, good people.