Last week I wrote about an 8-year search coming to a close with the help of some Googling and perseverance. I finally found Clare and got in touch with her.
Well it gets better.
Today I got an email through the contact form I put up a few days ago:
Jenn omg i cant beleive i found you !! its hollie from belfast that stayed at your house in 1999!! please get bk !! xx
This morning the Internet finally came through for me.
For some backgruond, Clare is a girl that my mom and I hosted back when I was 12 or so through a program called Project Children. The program brings young kids from Northern Ireland to the US for the summer where they can experience a “normal childhood” for a summer away from all of the “troubles”. It was one of the best summers of my life. Clare and I kept in touch through letters and things for a few years after she left, but sometime around the start of high school, we lost touch. I’ve been trying to find her ever since.
It finally happened. I finally got to see the Spice Girls LIVE in concert!
When I first heard tickets were on sale for dates in NJ, I jumped on them. The excitement has been building ever since. I rarely get excited about things – mostly because I don’t like to set myself up for disappointment. [...]
Forever-Digital is a look inside the life and mind of Jenn Vargas, a 22 year old web geek and photographer who just graduated from Cornell University in May '09 with a BA in Information Science. She's a dreamer, a doer, and a chronically early procrastinator. She just got back from backpacking through Europe and soon will be taking a one-way trip to San Francisco to start her job at Yahoo!.
