I love Andorra (Reason 1)

Sorry my posts are fewer lately. The four other Fulbright scholars have been arriving for the last few days, so I haven't been blogging.

But I just had a great experience that I think sums up Reason 1 on why I love Andorra:
EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE AND WANTS YOU TO KNOW EVERYONE TOO

Example 1: I volunteer at a charity shop called Carisma and the first day I met a wonderful Irish woman who also volunteers there. I mentioned how I was looking to rent an apartment in Ordino, but I wasn't sure because it did not have a fridge, washer, or microwave. She immediately told me about a friend of hers whose flat she was clearing. He has a fridge, washer, and microwave so she would call him to see if I could have it!

Example 2: I had coffee with a wonderful woman named Clare and told her I was interested in learning Catalan. While I was in the bathroom, Clare called one of her Andorran friends, Meritxelle, and invited me to an English-Catalan dinner with her. Now Meritxelle invited me to go on an awesome hike next weekend! And she also called her friend Anne who is a real-estate agent and is helping me finds apartments.

Example 3: At the English-Catalan dinner I went to with Meritxelle, I met a woman from Ordino named Carmen. Carmen owns a bakery in Ordino, el Fleca Font, (which is right below the apartment I'm looking to rent). I told Carmen how I bake gluten free foods and she offered to let me sell them at her bakery (there's a big gluten-free population in Andorra, who knew?)! Then today when I was at Fleca Font having coffee with Jaymee, Carmen came and asked how my apartment search was going. I told her how I was looking to rent the apartment right above the bakery, but it wasn't furnished so I wasn't sure. She said that would be a great idea and she would call Marc who owns the apartment and ask him if he could get it furnished for me. She immediately got on the phone with Marc who said he would talk to his dad about finding furniture for the apartment at a reasonable price. Carmen then continued to give Jaymee and I a list of recommendations for places to take another one of the Fulbright girls, Daniela, to for her birthday :)

I love how everyone is making connections for me! Andorra is great!
And that's just reason 1...