It’s great to hear from students in Professor Nunn’s class. We are so excited about the upcoming film and are eager for people to learn more about the struggles of binational couples. Obama’s immigration reform currently includes measures to change these unfair policies. Let’s hope these measures are not removed from the legislation.

And thanks for the great comments on our blog. Please tell everyone about our site – the more the merrier.

It sounds like you are doing Semester at Sea. If we happen to cross paths, let us know and we can get together for lunch or something

I also used social media to make new friends when I moved to Costa Rica by myself a couple of years ago. Through one of my online communities, I got to know another writer/traveler. When we met for coffee, we realized that we lived only three blocks from each other! From then on, we started to go to happy hour together and to organize dinner parties.

Since I’ve been traveling with you and Tony, I’m realizing that social media is also allowing us to catch up in new ways. For example, when you say that a certain place reminds you of X, I’ve often read and seen pics about that place on your blog! This seems to create a new level of connection.

I read your latest post regarding creating and sustaining community while traveling. I have a funny and exiting story connected with that, that I would like to share with you.

Two months ago I found out about an exiting theory of learning called “Theory U”. It’s a theory constructed by a german guy called Otto Scharmer who is a professor at MIT. He has these cool thoughts regarding the source of creativity and connects being present or being in a meditative state with innovating and creating new ideas (check him up at youtube or google him if you are interested). The main thing here is however not the theory… But I got all exited and started to check the web if anyone in Sweden had used this theory in the academia. After a while I found a bachelor thesis that used this theory. I started reading it and as I saw the name of the author it sounded familiar. Elin Frost. Elin Frost, is that not the girl that Tony and Thomas met, that did this crazy “The Art of Hanging Around”-study… I started to go through her blog and soon I struck gold. A picture of my favorite American-German couple, smiling as always. So I got even more exited and decided to email her. I wrote that we must have much in common since we have the same friends and like the same theories. She replied and a week later we had a long skype-talk. I invited her for a retreat project I was doing on shared learning, but she could not come. But two weeks ago we met at mine and Emelies place, as few people who were invited to this retreat project but were not able to attend had decided to meet. Elin is really a super cool and a super nice person, and its literally thanks to you that I got to know her. So your community is spreading and seems to be living a global life of its own. Thanks for that!