Jason is so sweet!
Brown really didn’t know Medvedeva all that well, although he had chatted to her a few times at competitions. They hadn’t been really close. When he heard she was moving to Toronto, Brown wrote her and said: “Oh my gosh [that’s so Jason Brown], I’m moving too. I can’t wait to see you.”
As her move date became closer, Brown wrote her again, asking her the actual date. When she told him, he said: “Would you like me to pick you up at the airport?”
“That would be amazing,” said Medvedeva, whose English was already quite accomplished. The friendship began.
“I knew she didn’t know anybody and… I told her: ‘I’m there for you,’” Brown said.
So when Medvedeva first arrived in Toronto, it was Brown’s smiling face that she first saw at Pearson Airport. He picked her up as well as her mother, settled them into their housing, helped Medvedeva set up her phone and her internet, too, aware that a language barrier would make it difficult. (Medvedeva still searches for the right words.)
“It was like this forced friendship that luckily became a real friendship,” Brown said. “I was nervous [that she might think]: ‘Oh I have to spend more time with HIM.’ But I’m glad she likes me as much as I like her.”
Full interview:
https://bevsmithwrites.com/jason-brown-his-light-falls-on-toronto/
Now we have to wait for her first GP! 
