New Friend

Yesterday at last I had a cup of tea with my new friend at a coffee shop near my house.
My property owner introduced her for me and we talked on the phone a day before we meet. We talked on the phone few weeks ago too, but she had bad flu and we had to wait for her recovering.
Her life is totally different from mine. I got married when I was 19, and she came to New Zealand when she was 19.
She first came here with her best friend, but the friend did not want to stay in NZ. Ten months later the friend left her and backed to Japan.
She wanted to finish her art course then stayed in NZ another two years, then backed to Japan once.
However she loved NZ and she asked her coming back to her parents. And she came back to NZ again; that time she backed her own. What a brave girl!
Her parents helped her living but she was not good at money management, then one day she realized that she had only $2 or $3 in her bank account.
She suddenly found an advertisement on the window that was Japanese restaurant.
She became independent and earned enough money.
During second stayed in NZ, she hospitalized from serious injury. In that days a nurse from this town, looked after her. When she turned to 25, she had no idea what to do. Therefore the nurse suggested about study nursing in this town.
Then she came here and started to learn nursing.
After that she has been here for 15 years now.
We have same interests, one of these is drawing and another one is mental health nursing. So we talked a lot.
I was envious of her successful life first, but later I thought my life was not too bad. Because she is single but I have my family instead.
She said "I first felt a caution to you, because I have bad experiences form Japanese people before. However I like you now. I should invite you to my house sometimes." I was so glad. Moreover she said "If you move to somewhere later, shall we keep in touch."
She taught me about volunteer interpreter to improving my English in the hospital and I phoned them. But later I realized that is for the emergency department. I do not know many special vocabularies so I am worried. However it might be good challenge for me.