There has been no shortage of surprises, from continually having my first impressions overturned, to finding myself in a succession of unexpected situations, from a tribal wedding on the islands of San Blas to a Chavista meeting in Caracas.
He was funny and always doing impressions and accents – I'd hang out with Paddy all day and never hear his real voice.
It may make us uncomfortable that superficial impressions are so fundamental in forming opinion, but such impressions are deep in our subconscious.
What are your impressions of Sweden, the country and the people?
The bodily composition of the horse, like most of the early equine depictions in the rock art, is heavily resonant of the shape of a kangaroo – evidence, perhaps, that the most common large mammal in Bininj experience initially sublimated their impressions of the foreign.
Traffic to the website leapt from an average of about 700,000 page impressions a day before the September 11 attacks, to 1.2m page views a day in the immediate aftermath.
The impressions they leave are unforgettable and, speaking from personal experience, we truly do make friends for life.
Interviewed on his return to Paris with regard to his impressions of London, M Zola said: "I must thank my friends in England for their greeting.
(I once saw him tell of an encounter between a beagle and a squirrel, doing impressions of both. His emotional wisdom extends to animals and plants and inanimate objects. He's the best standup comedian you've never seen perform).
Martin Boon of ICM Unlimited, who pioneered this "wisdom of crowds" approach, explained: "Most people will have an inkling about how friends and relatives will vote, and in aggregate these impressions may count for more than individuals' sometimes less-than-clear sense of their own intentions.
The Bridge is quite capable of standing on its own and generating its own ideas, impressions and points of interest.
