Those Silly Americans

From my sociology journal - 7/23/07

The other day I had a really good conversation with my friend Carolin from Germany. We were walking in downtown Denver with some friends, but we had fallen behind them and were having a sort of heart-to-heart.
One thing that we had both noticed about the casts was that it sometimes seems as if most of the Americans just stuck to each other most of the time. Since approximately half of the cast is American, I suppose this is somewhat understandable, but it's still kind of disappointing. Carolin said that she sometimes has felt lonely because of this (that was one of the questions in our "cross the line" game that day). Since English is their first language, it's probably only natural that the Americans feel an affinity towards each other, and they often crack jokes that most people who aren't native English speakers wouldn't understand.
Because of this, I have been making it a point to go out of my way to get to know my international castmates, and so far I've made some incredible connections with them. It seems like most of the Asian students are often overlooked by many of the Westerners, probably because of the drastic culture differences, but I've found that most of them are actually very sociable if you just give them a chance. I'm trying to make the most of this amazing opportunity to communicate with foreign students, since who knows if I'll ever get that chance again.