Lay on the charm and just ask her..
On question,.. the friend who told you to ask her? Was it a "girl" friend of hers? thats a ploy ... I would tell my girlfriend to say something to you in passing convo.. its almost like a setup.. if this guy is really leaving .. you know thats doomed anyway.. he's an exchanged student. Out of site, out of mind.. ask her out.
"Remember always, that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
- - Eleanor Roosevelt
" It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not."
- - Michael Nolan
"...to love and lose, is better than not to love at all..." .... Lord, whats his name....
" The world is big... I want to see all of it before it gets dark." -- John Muir