"Highlight of my life"

At the end of May, we arrived late in Mostar, Bosnia (map).

Our first day on campus, I was quickly confronted by the city’s ethnic division. I invited a student to our meeting and––after I explained where it was––he retorted:

“I don’t go sniffing around where I don’t belong.”

(Our meeting was on the other side of the river—an ethnic dividing line.)

YET, in spite of challenges, there was one phrase that I heard every week: “you’re different”.

For example, below is what Marko (a Bosnian friend) told me after one of our meetings: 

“I didn’t even know there were people in the world like you. I have never met anyone like you before. And here, in this room, there are many of you in one place.

I thought I was a good person until I met you. You have been a highlight of my life. I can’t even tell you. I’m not just, um, [searching for English words]...‘putting a cherry on top’. I mean this.”

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