Friends Don't Let Friends . . .

Eat pork! That's right, we had another foreign student get together. This time our International Club hosted both newcomers and students that are getting ready to graduate to what we call a Meet and Greet. We had Godfather's Pizza, fruit trays, vegetable trays, and a mix of sodas.

So the students were all mingling and we were introducing them and then said finally "let's eat!" We made a point of ordering mostly vegetable or cheese pizzas, but we also had a couple of pepperoni on the end of the table. We told them they were all no meat, and the group from Tunisia and Morocco said, "But what about the pepperoni!!" Oh , yeah, we said, except for the pepperoni . . . and we all had a good laugh.

I had talked Beaver and a couple of his buddies into coming along, because we were short on greeters. They did a great job of engaging the foreign students in conversation, asking them about their countries and what they or don't like about being here in the U.S. They talked to the students from Saudi (who gave them his phone number in case they had other questions), Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Poland, Romania, Israel, Germany and Bahrain.