All that comes to mind is my Lithuanian former roommate.
(brief hijack: when she would call her mother, she would speak in Lithuanian. They are both fully fluent English speakers. On occasion, if she didn’t care for the Lithuanian word for something, she would just use the English word. It’s very disconcerting to be in a room with someone who is on the phone, speaking a language you can’t even differentiate the words in, who suddenly says, so far as you can tell, “blah blah blah blah vacuum cleaner blah blah blah…” When I asked her about this, she told me that the Lithuanian word for vacuum cleaner was “stupid”.)
Well, I’ve got family members born in Laos, Cambodia, French Guyana, France, Tunisia and Texas (my family has the wanderer gene, apparently).
College friends from Ethiopia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Israel, China, Korea (South), Singapore, South Africa, India, Vietnam, Russia and pretty much all of Western Europe.
People I’ve met and worked with in Japan from Canada, Australia, NZ, Turkey, Brazil, Kenya, Peru, UK, Ireland and, of course, Japan.
Plus, Intimate encounters with women from Japan, Korea, China, Jamaica, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
Ukraine? That’s obscure? Hmm…close encounters. Does my grandfather, who was born and raised there, count as an “encounter”?
The fellow my husband wanted as his best man lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (I have met him.) His sister–also Malaysian–is married to the fellow who actually was our best man. (They were all pals in college) I have met all of these folks.
I used to work with a woman whose family came from India–but she was born and raised in Kenya.
Nobody has mentioned Poland, but several of my older relatives (unfortunately all gone now) emigrated from Poland.
A few years ago, my (now) ex introduced me to her sister and brother-in-law. He (brother-in-law) is from Denmark, and was in the states to visit my girlfriend’s family. During the course of dinner and many bottles of wine, I learned he knows my father, as they work in similar positions for competing companies in the same industry. Weird.
It seems that the winner is hedra, with Pantellerite being a close second. I don’t know if Sublight’s list of people were “singletons” for the country to which they belonged.
Though when I saw matt_mcl’s name in the thread I was half expecting him to blow us away by telling us of his passionate romance with a citizen of the Vatican.
