Thumbs up, and a lot of that sounds familiar to me =)

Also, I realized that the way I wrote, it sounds different that in it really was. I mean, the sense of "I went there and made two good friends" - as, thinking in detail, the whole process of making friends took several years. Mostly because I'm introverted and don't open up myself so quickly. But that also naturally filters out hasty people, I can only manage long-term friendships with people who are slow-paced like me =)

But, yeah - when I went to do the masseur degree, I viewed it purely as a bureaucratic necessity to boost my working on the field. I was not intentionally looking for making friends, but afterwards I've felt blessed for meeting these wonderful people. So, sometimes life is like that - and sometimes it is not, and sometimes there is little we can do to affect that, so zen is probably the best way to go =)