Drake was Wrong about New Friends

Recently, ONU  started this new program on campus called Polar Pals. It pairs selected second year up students with first year international students to help them get acclimate to the campus. As veteran ONU students we are required to meet with our pal or pals for an hour a week and record how each experience went and there are some required events.

The first required even was reveal night, each international student was called down to the front of the Moot Court Room followed by their pal meeting them there. I have two pals this year, Geuna (NaNa) from Korea and Thais from Brazil. After we found out who the other was we got in groups with other pals to go on a campus (photo) scavenger hunt and ended the night with a potluck.

Geuna, myself, her roommate (Heejung) and her pal (Kristen) all had dinner tonight to get to know each other. Heejung taught Kristen and I how to make seaweed rolls and how they are different from sushi. She told us that the difference is how the rice is prepared and the raw fish is only used for sushi. So we had three types of seaweed rolls and a spicy noodle dish that Geuna made. We ended up talking for two hours learning about each other and figuring out other times we all can out on again. Next time,  we all plan to go to the football game on Saturday together along with Thais and some other international students

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I'm really excited though to get to know these two girls as well as the other people involved.