Important Characters

There are three other girls on the ACM program with me: Madeline, Emilie, and Jordan. Madeline is from Macalester, and Emilie and Jordan are from Lake Forest College (near Chicago). Jordan is originally from Utah, the other two are from the vicinity of their colleges. All are Sociology majors, but are doing various double majors (in Anthropology, Economics, and so on). Emilie is an ex-professional ballerina. Jordan is a certified pastry chef. Madeline has a Phillipino boyfriend in Japan and can do some impress body roll moves. They each have many more traits besides these.

There are about 15 international students living in Las Vegas, and about 15 more from the CIEE program living in graduate student housing. That division is fairly distinction, although there has been cross-group mingling and the CIEE kids are nice.
The Las Vegas Internationals:
1 German guy
2 Finnish girls
2 Swedish girls
3 from North Carolina – two guys and a girl
A couple from Wheaton
1 girl from UPenn
1 other girl from the US

Herbert:
Herbert is a Motswana (person from Botswana) that we met in the grocery store. He asked us for ideas for a food that is healthy but disgusting to eat (we suggested oats, he chose dog food) for a health event he was hosting, and we got to talking. He is co-founder of a microfinance organization, but not much older than us. Since our meeting, he took us out to a delicious Indian restaurant, and we also went to his apartment in a swanky part of town for a delicious Nando’s meal. He is quite entertaining to hang out with.

Nick & white guys from the Yacht Club:
The Yacht Club is at the Gaborone Dam, which is a beautiful bar and stony patio overlooking the lake. It is a bit of an ex-pat hang out. There, we met Nick and his friends, who chatted with us extensively. Nick is a British Zimbabwean who was kicked out and is now living here. He has a barge he invited us for a picnic on. I am not sure what a barge means, but we will see how this develops.

Ostrich, Deep, Danger, & the Hiphop Club:Took a shining to Jordan particularly, and have since become pals of ours. Ostrich has sold over 500 CDs and has a t-shirt (a silhouetted ostrich in a circle) which is worn by many members of the Hiphop Club around campus (Ostrich stands for “Obstacles Overcome to become Rich”). I now have my very own (pictures hopefully to come). We were invited and specially seated at their weekly freestyle, and are generally considered legit.