Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Your Asian Twin

I was back on the road again this week, to go and hear a speaker from a university in the States that had come out to Central Asia so lecture on issues relevant to life out here.

While travelling I ran into a girl I went to university with, well at least I ran into her Asian twin. I haven't seen or really even thought about Wendy in eight or nine years, but there she was standing in front of me. This girl looked just like Wendy except for her Asian features, the comparison came to mind immediately.

She is not the first person whose Asian twin I have met while walking down the street. Some times it is a person's clothing, walk, or mannerisms that remind of a friend from home. Sometimes it is their voice or personality that makes a comparison pop into mind. Sometimes it is immediate, like the Wendy look-a-like that I only saw for a second across a busy street, and sometimes it is after a long interaction with a person that I finally realise who they remind me of. I have found peoples twins in all the nationalities out here. Once on a bus there was a Tajik guy that looked just like my friend from New Zealand, as blond as the Kiwi guy was the Tajik guy had dark features, but other than that they were the spitting image of one another. I have found peoples twins among the Russians, Koreans, Chinese, Kazak, Uyghur, Tajik and more.

It's cool to look past the obvious differences in features and find home in the faces of the strangers around me.

4 comments:

Beth said...

I wonder if I am thinking of the same Wendy as you are! I once saw another of her twins somewhere else. At first I thought I had recognized someone I knew, but couldn't remember; and it took me a few minutes to realize what was really going on.

KSA said...

Hey Beth,
I bet you it is the same Wendy, she must just have one of those familiar faces, either that or she really does have twins all over the world.

Deon said...

That is so true, and I have been saying that for ever. I thought maybe I was going krazy but there are twins of each us all over the world, now who said we did not come from the same mother. It is often said to me hey you look like so-and-so. Now depending on who so-and-so is it might be a good thing or a bad thing, hence the term evil twin......

Jen said...

Have you seen my twin? :)