Seeking Happiness: The Making Of May | Page 31

Dr Gary Wood was an eccentric character and the ice was immediately broken when he strolled up to the girls sipping ginger wine to sooth his chesty cough which he had inconveniently acquired the night before the girls were to meet him. Gary had a comforting smell; it seemed like a mixture of patchouli and lavender oil and he was full of funny stories such as staying up for three days straight drinking only coffee whilst studying for his PhD. When speaking to Gary about stress relief, Rhianne found that he made very similar arguments to Klaus, such as happiness being about social interactions and how we perceive ourselves in the world around us, and in the girls opinion, this made for the most convincing way of explaining what happiness is and how we can seek it. Gary made both the girls feel very contented and it really tickled the girls to see how flocks of Canadian geese started to surround them during their conversation, which terrified Gary. The geese just seemed to love being on camera. Ironically, it was harder for the girls to find the park in which they met Gary, which was only a bus journey away, than it was to travel across Berlin and make multiple crossovers. It was at this point they realised that navigation was definitely not their forte.