He needs his own booth

Our adventure was interrupted with the call to volunteer for the annual study abroad fair at Uni of Sydney. We were both very excited to wear our home university shirts in hopes that someone would recognize it and want to go there. We were the first to arrive at our United States destinations booth but that quickly changed. Another girl that had studied in California soon arrived, followed by an Australian who studied at Washington State. Australians students were not shy to come over and see what opportunities we had in the US, but almost all of them had either California, New York or Florida in mind. We were trying to get it through their heads that New York is basically just like Sydney and they should really try and step out of their comfort zone to try something completely new if they’re going to study in another country. Not to mention that we had absolutely no information at our booth for any of these schools so we couldn’t be much help for them. The Australian guy that had studied at Foster University in Washington and had apparently traveled all over the States did not mind sharing his stories with people though, in the end convincing them to consider his host school. Riley and I could barely get a peep in, even though we were the only true Americans at the table. Finally, a girl came up to us and saw on our name tags that we were from North Carolina and asked us to talk about our schools. She wanted to go to the US but didn’t want to go to the main states like New York or California, but rather wanted to see what else there was out there. We were so thankful that someone had finally realized the whole point of studying abroad – to broaden one’s horizons and experience something new. We both think that UNCC was a better fit for her and she promised to consider it as one of her choices. I really hope that I’ll see her on my campus one day! That was the end of our time commitment and we were definitely ready to leave the Australian with all the extravagant United States stories behind and enjoy some lunch in the nice sunshine. The warm days are apparently coming to an end, or actually should have ended already but we’re keeping our fingers crossed that they will stick around for a lot longer! We unfortunately wasted a lot of our afternoon in the library catching up on American time as well as school assignments that are fast approaching. Dinner was yet another delicious creation since we made ‘slap yo mama sloppy joes,’ seriously what the recipe is called. We of course added our favorites of green peppers, pineapple and onion into the mixture and truly made it one of a kind. Riley now calls them ‘beat yo mama sloppy joes’ since we apparently made them tougher and better (don’t worry he’s not really serious).