Jocelyn is one of the most entertaining people I have ever met, and thus one of my favorite people. Jocelyn and I met on my ISV trip to Australia in 2010, she was actually the first person that I met who was going to be in my group for the next month. I remember her walking down to the gate in LAX and taking a seat in the circle I had been in with a bunch of other people for quite a while. This was right about the time that Katy Perry released that shitty song California Girls (you may remember it as the music video where Katy shoots whipped cream out of cans attached to her knockers), so when Joce told me she was from L.A. I was pretty stoked to meet her. I'll be honest, I had some preconceived notions of what it meant to be a person raised in L.A., I thought they would be a little more wild than your average person, and I have to say...Jocelyn lived up to all of my expectations.
I had many a good time with Joce in Australia, but I think that may favorite time was when we were walking around what I believe was downtown Cairns...don't hold me to that, it's kind of a blur. But anyway, she and I were walking down the street with the rest of our group when somehow the topic of our sexual prowess came up. Now, at the time, I was still pretty green in that area which led to a lot talk of "innocence" when it came to me. So we're talking and what not, the Jocelyn says "I'm a virgin." We all look at her, silent for a moment, then start laughing. And it was that laughter that led to one of my favorite line deliveries of the trip, "Wait guys, don't you think I look innocent?!" She would say it with a straight face then start laughing her great laugh every time...it was hilarious and became a running joke for the rest of our time there.
Unfortunately, Jocelyn and I have lost touch over the years. I haven't heard from her in sometime, and while that does make me a little sad because she brought so much fun to my life in the short time I knew, it was also probably inevitable. We go on trips, we meet these amazing people, and for a time they're the best things in our life, but then we go home. And we realize that we live hundreds, if not thousands of miles away, and as much as we would like to have them in our lives forever, that's just not the way life works. I have memories of Jocelyn that will make me laugh for the rest of my life, and to me at least, you can't devalue that.
Cheers,
Andrew
