Sigma said:Some japanese friends of my parents moved from Japan -> UK -> Holland(here) a long time ago.
I met their daughter when I was about 3 years old (and she was 5) and even though she only spoke bits of english/japanese and I dutch we became friends.
Since we couldn't talk for a long time we eventually developed this game where she would point at some object in the environment, let's say a tree, and name it in english, then I would do the same in dutch and we would move on to the next object.
Like that we taught eachother our own language, I think I could watch english TV without subtitles when I was around 9 years old.
Because she lived 3 houses away we were together pretty much every day, we even celebrated our birthdays together because they were only 2 days apart, but this also meant we developed more of a brother/sister relationship rather than friend/friend, which made me deny the feelings I had for her when I grew older.
She moved back to Japan about a year ago, not a day has gone by on which I haven't wondered what would have happened if I accepted those feelings (and maybe, just maybe if she shared them)
That's sweet. You should try to contact her. I doubt she's forgotten you.