Meeting People

Meeting people can be difficult at times. Especially when travelling in areas where white people don't frequent (less english speaking people to talk to). I usually meet people in dorm rooms or while travelling. I never imagined that I would meet so many Canadians and have been shocked again and again by where the people I live are from. Starting in the Philippines I found that only met locals while I was away from Lorena and Peter. The only time that happened was in Boracay when I went on walks by myself (I've been doing a lot of treking like this). Unfortunately few locals spoke enough english to make a conversation. In Malaysia I spent two days in a Dorm in KL before I had a good conversation with some one. This only occurred the night before I left when I first met a Girl from Argentina and talked for about 3 hours then later the next morning when I met the other girl in our dorm who was from Montreal Canada. Unfortunately like every person I've met relationships only last about one day. After KL I met a couple of people from Switzerland on the Bus to Jarantut. In Jarantut I met a guy from California in the dorm. I also gave some advice to someone just arriving. I met up with that same guy on the perhentian islands but only talked briefly with him. The first two days on the islands I was in a dorm with few people and only started meeting with people after two days there. This is where it got weird. First I met a girl on the beach from Calgary, then when scuba diving I met two girls from Calgary and about three others from different places in Europe. Then a few days later I met another girl from Calgary. I didn't have substantial conversations with any of these fellow Calgarians but was shocked by how many I met in like one day (4 out of 5 Canadians). The only people I talked with for a while where a couple of people in the dorms. Its so strange, you hardly know a person and yet you find you can talk to them for hours. I met one guy from the UK who had been travelling for about 7 months... mostly in Australia. Then I met an Architect from USA (I think it was Oregon) and I talked to her most of the day that I stayed because of food poisoning. Meeting people this way reminds me a lot of my third year in engineering where I met and got to know so many people in just one year. Only here its for just one day and have yet to give my contact information to anyone other then a local who wanted to talk to someone from Canada. On the train to Bangkok I met two Calgarians. Since being in Bangkok its been hard meeting up with people (I have a single room). Two times while walking on the street I met up with people, both were from Canada (totally a coincidence I'm not looking for Canadian flags) and one of them was from Calgary. So I guess my question is... Does anyone notice the lack of people in Calgary? Tomorrow I'm meeting up with a guy I met on the street that wants to visit Canada.