Comments on: ESL Tutoring – or How We Met

By: Deanna

Deanna — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:31:32 +0000

Aditya, you don't need to explain why you were wearing the Kimono. Really, we're all friends here.

By: GoriGirl

GoriGirl — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:16:36 +0000

Thanks for visiting RBK! I like your blog quite a bit too.

I'm not sure if I'd say we were “friends first” – we started dating pretty early on after the meeting I described above – but I have no doubt that we could have been friends if one of us had been in a relationship when we had met.

By: GoriGirl

GoriGirl — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:14:53 +0000

In my experience, the prevalence of man purses in Europe depends on what country you live in, but they certainly do exist. There was even a Seinfeld show on it once…

By: RBK

RBK — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:10:08 +0000

Love your blog and your inter-cultural perspective and plan to visit regularly.

Clearly Aditya and you are friends first and that is a terrific base for any relationship.

By: D

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:39:01 +0000

What an adorable story!

BTW, I'm baaack! Looking forward to catching up.

By: technophobicgeek

technophobicgeek — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:10:24 +0000

I shall now make sure my girlfriend NEVER finds any of my old pictures. Thankfully, most of them are in India, before the age of ubiquitous digital cameras and flickr/facebook. Heh!

By: ara0062

ara0062 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:41:36 +0000

I really enjoyed the kimono cross-dressing event.. speaking of stuff like that.. I have noticed that a LOT of men from Europe carry “man bags” as they call them. I finally just asked one day and was told it is pretty common for European men to carry some sort of “purse” as frequently as women due for pretty much the same reasons.. but they call them “man bags” LOL.. not sure totally on this all since I simply asked..

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:14:44 +0000

Full story of Kimono – it was at our annual “International Festival” and very persuasive [and pretty] Japanese ladies were involved in the dressing up

By: 6mile

6mile — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:57:57 +0000

Aditya does pull off a Kimono , well

By: TheGoriWife

TheGoriWife — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:41:20 +0000

I love the “How We Met” stories! Thanks for sharing.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:57:10 +0000

Fun story! And Aditya does a fair job of pulling off the kimono.

By: mocroidh

mocroidh — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:37:24 +0000

Very cute story, GG! Ricky liked it as well.

BTW, we’re in SoCal, and yes, it’s been about 80 degrees here the past few days. All I can say is that after having experienced a Midwestern winter last year (I was teaching for a year at the University of Minnesota), I’m very glad to be back in the land of sunshine and palm trees and balmy weather in the winter!

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:45:00 +0000

someone may yet be killed.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:37:45 +0000

Ahhh, that’s a nice story.

By: IndianTies

IndianTies — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:01:18 +0000

Love the story! Thanks for sharing – especially the photo! My husband would kill me I think