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Zdrasti!

I'm home. I'm not dead. Don't be concerned (if you were). The snow disappeared by the time we got to Ohio, so we didn't go careening off the road or anything.

We spent Friday night in a hotel and I shared a room with Samata, Ligia, and Alex. It was fun, but we stayed up too late watching Road Trip. Mmmm, not really worth it. But we stayed in a really nice hotel (too nice if you ask me, but I'll let the treasurer worry about that) and they had a delicious breakfast the next day, then we set off to the College of Wooster campus.

The main theme of the weekend seemed to be "Wooster is so much better than Albion because..." Wooster won out for cafeteria, bookstore, international dorm, number of international students, and campus entertainment, but Albion did get points for international student diversity, better tea, and drinkable grape juice.

We met up with our hosts (I stayed with Ligia and our host was from Nantes, France - which is where Antoine is from, too) and had some opening talks, ate lunch in the cafeteria, then had our workshops. Mine was History and Legacy which was really fun, except that they tried to get me to represent Botswana when I don't know anything about it. I finally talked them into letting me be a non-fat American in our skit about stereotypes. Our group leader was Daniel from Bulgaria, who the whole Albion delegation seemed to develop a crush on.

Then we went to the leadership seminar and learned that other schools have enormous budgets but problems in other areas, like international student diversity or involvement.

We had dinner (the ice cream machine was BROOOOOOKEN and I'm never going to forgive myself for passing up espresso chip at lunch), then we went to do our presentations and skits. The seniors had a little more diverse ideas, but the Albion freshmen were all in the Theatre and Dance program. We were all very entertaining, especially the many-international-tales-combined skits that they put on. Alex played Ram from the Ramayana and got to scream "Sitaaaaaaaaaa!" very dramatically.

We had an evening of fun which consisted of sitting around Luce Hall watching TV for a while, but then around 10 we headed over to The Underground, Wooster's bar/dance club. WHY don't we have one of these? WHY? Anyway, they had open mic night, then we danced the night away until I thought I was going to fall over.

Today we slept in the car. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Now I'm back.

Did you miss me?

srah - Sunday, 3 February 2002 - 5:56 PM
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