International Student Day

Yesterday the university housed activities for foreign students. We attended a Welcome Meeting in the morning (where they explained that the British always say "please" when ordering, and no one else really does that), and had a dinner in the evening.

 Actually, the university is comprised of about 25% international students, so there were a LOT of students to feed. They split the dinners into 4 different locations...here us my dinner and the students at my table:

(She looks thrilled, right?)

One girl at the next table was "packing" with the three girls at my table. They are all friends from Mauritius who traveled to school together. All in Pre-Law...that's what kids do from Mauritius. 

The girl in the white top and sweater was from Norway, next guy is from Canada...there was a girl from France that didn't end up in the pic, the dapper kid with the tie and 5 o'clock shadow is from France as well.  Then, there was Toby, with the pony tail.  He is from London, and was basically crashing the dinner. He's 38 and getting to school for the first time. Good for him!  Then the bored girl from Thailand. She is 26, going to law school, and this is the first time she's ever been away from home.