What a meeting! by matcrazy1
When we (Urszula, my wife and I) visited the Arlington National Cemetery, after climbing up to the Arlington House we walked down and were looking for any bench to rest a little bit. We sat by the Asian woman who played with a small boy (her son). We were busy discussing with Urszula our next plans for that day (what more to see in Washington, DC) when the woman unexpectadly asked me, surely in English: "Excuse me, are you from Poland?". I was very, very surpriced, my Polish language can't be popular and easy recognisable among Asians in the USA, I thought. In a few seconds, the woman explained that she lived in... Warsaw, Poland over two years where her husband worked for NATO in 1990'. That's why she could easily recognize my native language. They went to the cemetery for funeral ceremony of her father-in-law and she together with her quite active boy :-) was waiting for her husband. We were talking a few minutes when her husband came and we started to talk together about the USA and Poland and our coincidential meeting.It belongs to my foundest memories although still is a little bit strange for me, that during only 3-4 days in Arlington and among a few locals I was talking to was one Pole (more in nightlife tips) and now someone who lived in Poland. Well, wherever you are from, you have a chance to meet your native in Arlington. it's highly multicultural population here.