Meeting with Vera #6 - A Final Farewell

After several months of meeting with Vera Wang and discussing life, it was finally time to see one another for the last time. We had never gotten the opportunity to go to the TCU Recreation Center like I had hoped, and it felt like just yesterday that we emailed one another for the first time. But as they say, all good things must come to an end.

Vera and I had planned to meet on Friday during dead days to cap off our semester, but it ended up being too icy for either of us to really want to make the trek to Union Grounds. Instead, we waited until Saturday when people finally stopped using leaf blowers on the ice, and actually made some real progress. When I first saw Vera, she looked incredibly flustered. With a large scarf wrapped around her neck and layers upon layers of sweaters and jackets, I knew she had never experienced icy conditions before. She probably looked at me with my light jacket and sneakers like a complete fool, but that’s okay.

Immediately after sitting down to begin our last conversation, she declared that she loved the snow, but hated the ice. We laughed and agreed that the ice was crazy outside, and how it seemed impossible to go anywhere without slipping and sliding around. Vera told me that while she had seen snow before, she had never really had to deal with it for more than a few hours until it melted. She did say that her roommate and friends decided to go and play in the snow/ice mixture that morning and tried to do some sledding as well. I told her all about the previous night when my roommates and I decided to go have a snowball fight at 2:00AM. She thought we were crazy, but we laughed about it in the end.

We then talked about how the Thanksgiving break was for each other, and Vera said that she simply stayed local, but had a nice time relaxing and taking it easy. Many of her friends also stayed in town, so she had plenty of people to see and spend time with. She asked about my trip back home, and I told her several funny stories about my time with family and friends. She hopes to visit Boston at some point, and hopefully we will still be in touch at the time so I can show her around the city a little bit. After several other side stories about various travels we wanted to do during our lives, I asked about her plans for Christmas. Vera said that she was really looking forward to going home to see her parents during the vacation, but was already excited to returning to TCU after the break and seeing her friends here in America. She leaves on Saturday after finals, so unless we run into each other before then, it will likely be the last time I get see Vera (at least in 2013). After rambling on about various topics, the time came to part ways. We wished each other well on our final exams, and embraced one last time.

All in all, I could not have asked for a better conversation partner to exchange experiences and laughter with. While there may have been a communication barrier during some of our conversations, we are both still college students at the end of the day and share similar experiences in everyday life. Whatever the future holds for both Vera Wang and I, I know that we won’t forget each other anytime soon. I will always look back and be able to say that I became friends with a fashion icon.