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Aggie had been taking a walk to re-familiarize herself with DC and ended up spending most of the little trip mentally beating herself black and blue. Why was she such a crap senshi, and how exactly could she approach the problem to become better? She'd already started with asking other senshi for help, which she figured was as good a starting point as any, and she'd begun taking capoeira which would hopefully help her become a better fighter - although it'd probably be a long while before she became really effective, considering how long the sport took to master.

Which was why, in her distraction, she hadn't noticed the other girl before she was literally right in front of her. Walking backwards, at least, so no collissions happened, to Aggie's great relief, but still. Maybe she should note down 'being more vigilant' on her list on improving herself.

"Hi?" Aggie floundered. "Um, t-thank you and yes it, um, is." Did she manage to answer in the right order? She was so confused. But reflex made her give the other girl - Anandi, as she'd identified herself - a handshake when she held out her hand. For once it was just a limp shake lacking her usual enthusiasm, but Aggie was so confused. "HITS?" Her face was as baffled as her voice. Anandi was a force of nature. "I j-just started at DCU, about um, a month ago? M-maybe less."

"Oh, er, I'm not really new, but sure, that'd be fun?" A new opportunity to make a friend! No matter how bafflingly it had come about, a chance to make friends was still a chance to make friends. Aggie smiled tentatively. "I'm majoring in Geography. It's k-kinda dorky, but also really fun!" Her voice was a bit defensive - geography might be her passion, but the red-head also considered it to be horribly nerdy. She'd been worse about it when she was younger - at least now she was comfortable enough to publicly declare her major without much shame, when she'd never even have considered that possible two years ago.

Really, it was mostly the horrifying prospect of spending her uni career with an awfully boring major like 'English Literature' or 'Psychology' that prompted her into being more open about her love for geography.

"T-that sound really cool! Really!" And it really did; it sounded like the sort of place where you could be geeky without anyone looking askance at you.

"You, you want to be friends with me?" She was back to blinking rapidly, looking befuddled and obediently following along with Anandi. "That would be... that would be great!" Aggie's smile was wide and beaming - Anandi had definitely struck gold with that request. "Oh, um, sorry, I totally forgot to tell you, I'm Aggie! Well, Dagmar, but that's a bit hard to pronounce for some, so Aggie's generally what I use, y'know?"

"Um, not really a vacation I guess - I went to Denmark with my parents, for, uh, about two years?" She looked shy at Anandi's praise, fiddling a bit with her shirt as she answered. "I'm not an expert or anything, I j-just really like it, that's all."

She shook her head, "I don't mind being called Aggie, it's like... only Danish people or my family calls me Dagmar, you know?" The red-head cocked her head to the side to regard the other girl with serious eyes, "Which name do you prefer?"

While she listened to the other girl giving her order, Aggie scanned the menu behind the clerk and bit her lip in thought. What did she want? Well... truth be told she wasn't really all that hungry, but it'd be weird for Anandi to eat alone, wouldn't it? So, "I'll have an, um, sandwich with chicken?" Okay, but there were lots of sandwiches with chicken. She'd probably have to be a bit more specific. "And bacon. A chicken bacon sandwich." Yeah, that sounded pretty normal and unharmful. "And a cherry soda, too."

Okay, obviously something had gone wrong here - Aggie had had a bill curled up in her fist, completely ready to hand over her part of the bill when Anandi had gone ahead and paid for the both of them.

Paid. For Aggie. What were you supposed to do in a situation like this? Mostly the red-head just wanted to pipe up and split the bill, but then if she did that, the Indian girl might think her ungrateful and get mad.

Maybe she could just slip the bill into the other girl's pocket without her noticing?

So focused on her internal dilemma, Aggie nearly missed what Anandi said next. "Oh, um, you should never study something you don't like, I think. It's just a w-waste of time, yeah?" This was something she herself had thought on very seriously before starting uni in Denmark - and ultimately she'd decided that there was no way she was going to last a whole degree in a major she didn't care for. But she'd always had a direction to go in, and it didn't sound like Anandi had found hers yet.

"Let's see, what are your hobbies? What, um, what kind of subjects do you like in school?" That'd be a good start, the red-head thought. Usually you could glean at least a little from that.

Aggie looked enthused; that was a really good basis to start from! There had to be lots of demand for people with educations in computer stuff these days, right? Pretty much everyone had a PC or a laptop after all, so surely there were some demand there that Anandi could help fill.

"That sounds great! Really, really g-great!" She nodded rapidly, smiling broadly at the other girl. "I'm sure they've got, um, a major in something like that! For sure. Would you like me to check next Monday?" Surely the information desk had to know something like that, and it'd only be a small detour in her lunch break to ask about it for Anandi.

"I'm pretty bad at art and stuff like that, too. English, ugh." She made a face. "But, I mean, you don't need to be good at art unless it's what you're gonna do for a job, right? For everyone else, it's just kind of a f-filler class." At least that was how Aggie had always seen it, but then again, she'd never found any particular enjoyment in attempting to draw things. It always went badly, and she'd never really gotten any compliments from her teacher, so it'd always been just another class she had to drudge through to pass her grade.

"And I'm sure you can get a good job! Computer stuff has to have lots of openings, right? Even in a recession like this, people are still using computers lots and new things are always coming out, so." The red-head smiled encouragingly at her companion and finally managed to get started on her sandwich. It was surprisingly good; even though Aggie hadn't really been hungry, the taste of the sandwich convinced her to keep eating.

For once the red-head actually managed to catch the shift in her conversation partner's mood; it was pretty obvious that Anandi wasn't happy with the conversation. Or, well, with her parents' opinion of what she'd like to do for a living, Aggie soon figured out. "T-that's stupid! Them, I mean, not you, um - " actually, wasn't insulting someone's parents bad form? Backtrack on that one, then, "I mean, no offense, but, yeah."

But the other girl already seemed to know everything the red-head was going to say, and Aggie couldn't do anything more than nod fervently along to Anandi's words and tell her what she thought was the truth. "You really would! You might not think so at first, l-like, 'oh I'll learn to love this' or 'I'll make more money like this!' but it's just not enough. People always need more than just that, because some days are always going to be crap and you need the good days to outweigh the bad but if you're just forcing yourself you won't have those good days and in the end it'll all just be crap. And stress. Probably stress."

She fiddled with her napkin, accidentally taking off a corner, looking a bit embarrassed after her little speech. Would the other girl think her too forward? But she was sure she was right, Anandi was awesome and fantastic and too alive to waste herself away like that. "My parents are pretty OK with me doing whatever I want. Well," she grimaced, "that's not entirely true. They kinda, uh, pushed pretty hard for me to stay in Denmark with them. Like, 'you'll be thrown out of the family!'-kind of pushing." She paused for a moment, staring into the air and getting a bit lost in her own thoughts. "I couldn't though, stay in Denmark. S'wasn't what I wanted, yeah? And anyway, they're pretty s-soft and totally didn't actually follow through or anything." She sent a smile to the Indian girl, shrugging lightly. Truthfully, she'd never really been worried that her parents would throw her out of the family - she was the pearl of their eye and they were much too mushy for a harsh punishment like that.

Besides, they'd already lost her once - her 'death' and re-emergence after the Barren Pines thing had done a number on them. They'd never do anything that could alienate her like that again, she knew. "But it'd be awesome if you were in my classes! And s-sure, it's no problem, I'll check out what they have to offer! Um," she threw a shy smile at Anandi, "and I'd love to try your cooking sometime."

"Eh, they get a bit over-enthusiastic when it comes to Denmark." Aggie shrugged with a smile. It perhaps sounded harsher in retelling than it actually had at the time, she figured.

Giggling along to Anandi's impression, the red-head shook her head with a grin. "Yeah, something like that! A-and you never know, if robots do end up taking over the world, you'd probably be like, the highest ranked human. 'cause you'd be speaking their language and such. That really didn't make sense, did it?"

"Oh, sure!" Digging her phone out from her pocket to check what her number was (why did phone numbers have to be so hard to remember?), Aggie found the contact she'd added of herself and handed the phone over to Anandi. "That should be it, I think."