That's so cool! I was just thinking the other day about how times have changed since then - none of us had mobile phones or computers with us, and we'd take a trip once a week to easyEverything to send emails to our friends. Funny story - a few years ago I was chatting with a coworker and it turned out he'd also been on a semester abroad program Fall 99. We started comparing notes about celebrity sightings around London, and he told a story about getting lost in Leicester Square one night and coming across a red carpet and lots of people being held back by the police, waiting for someone to exit a building. He asked a police officer what was going on, and was told that Paul McCartney was having a launch party for a new album, so he waited outside along with the crowd. When Paul came out, he actually got a wink out of him. "No way!" I told him, "I was AT that party!" (Granted, he came closer to Paul than I ever did.) Anyway, small world. I wonder if you and I ever almost ran into each other and never would have known it.