Friend visit

Today Stephen's brother Jonathon (yeah, I know about 5 billion Jonatha(o)ns so I just call this one by his initials, JT) flew in from Loma Linda, where he's in his third year of medical school, for a weekend visit. I met JT in grade 7 when his mum organized a small chamber orchestra made up of four musical families in the Valley. While JT and I didn't meet until the weekend of the orchestra concert, our families, grandparents and parents, have known each other for years. After that weekend I saw JT once in awhile at the annual sports day for all the Adventist schools in the Valley. Then his family moved into town and he came to our school for grade 11 and 12. At first I was annoyed that he'd joined our class. As soon as I saw him walking down the hallway on the first day of classes I knew that the valedictorian-race that my best friend Jodi and I had been having since grade 7 was over. I was right too. JT got the valedictorian distinction at our high school grad, but by that time I didn't mind so much. JT and I had become pretty good friends over the past two years. We still are and that's why I'm glad he came to Southern for the weekend. Tonight Bryn and I had Stephen and JT and some of our other friends over to our house for a burrito potluck. It was great catching up with JT again, especially since we'd only seen each other for about an hour and a half during the first Saturday night of Christmas break.