Last night was the year end formal which was a lot of fun. It included a really good buffet dinner, followed by a ton of speeches about living in an "international community" with "global awareness" and building our "global citizenship". Then the students of I-House were invited up to the microphone to share stories of their "increased global awareness". The stories people told were horrible!! It was soooo funny. The big wigs were all expecting heart warming stories about how living in I-House has changed our lives, but all they got were story after story about "Well it started after campus security dropped us off for being too drunk, and then Jules went and....", or "and then our porn videos from the lounge all went missing", etc.
The representatives looked absolutely horrified and now probably think we are awful people. I on the other hand thought these types of stories actually prove what a success I-House was. Yes there are obvious differences between members of different cultures, but there are many more similarities. We don't spend an ENTIRE YEAR exploring these differences. All exchange students just fit right in and I-House operates just like any other residence on campus. The differences between me and an Egyptian exchange student are much less than the differences between me and many "Canadians". At I-House we all live together, have classes together, eat together, watch the same TV. I don't think we are as different from one another as the founders of I-House had hoped.
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This picture is gross. It should be burnt and erased from all existence. That flower should also be burnt and erased from all existence.
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