are friends in different places still 'close' friends?

Hey!!
I went to a two week camp this summer at IHOP (see blog explaining) it is called ATC, Awakening teen Camp. Many kids from ages 11- 18 come from all over the world. My room of four girls happened to be from ALL OVER, I am from Nebraska, Grace and Zion were from different parts of Texas, and Shery is from egypt. Wide variety huh? Shery was a great roommate to have she is so funny, and speaks english fairly well, yep thats right FAIRLY things like drinking from the tap were VERY new to her, since in Egypt the water is not clean. Seeing her try new things was an amazing experience. Zion and Grace are amazing friends and I love both of them, with friends like these what could go wrong right? Wrong. Two weeks isn't actually a very long time, not nearly enough time for these close friends to spend time with each other. So with goodbye came tears from Zion first to leave, then Shery, and then me and Grace last to go, it is one of the hardest things to go far away from friends that you spent fourteen strait days with. Talking to them now is hard also, with facebook and phone calls as our closest ways to communicate, it doesn't seem like enough. To answer the question one the title of this blog, yes most of my closest friends are ranging from every state in the U.S to Egypt. I LOVE ALL MY ATCers!!!!!