foreign exchange
The spring semester is now three weeks old and I am so happy to be back. My breaks always make me feel horrible when I do go back to school. I am a school person. I just love to spend my time studying and learning new things and views through which I can view the world and try to make it a better place. I am so excited this semester because I changed roommates in the dorms and I have a new roommate from India. Sohan is a really great guy. He is just like me in that he loves to study and loves expanding his world view and every spare moment we have had these last three weeks, we have spent them talking about eachother's culture. Sohan is a brand new transfer student and he has never been to America before this month. I was most interested in his lengthy descriptions of the city where he grew up, Benares. He really wanted to talk about what it was like growing up and what kinds of traditions my family had. I could tell he was a bit disappointed that we didn't have ones that were quite as interesting as the ones he performed back in India. I was also quite taken when we finally got to discussing things like economics because he was here to study business and found this topic quite livening. I told him about our wage and human rights laws for the workplace. He got on the topic of foreign exchange and told me about the state of india's currency, the rupee. He talked to me about how low the money exchange rates were when he came in to the country that he basically had to ask for twice as much from his parents as they had given him when he arrived. He told me that this means when he goes back to India with his American dollars and has to do his foreign exchange there, the money exchange rates will work so much in his favor he joked he'd be a billionaire. It is conversations like these that I can now look foreword to for the rest of the semester with my new roommate Sohan.