The Ghost of Roommates Past

The Foreign Graduate Students

My first roommates in college were graduate students. This was probably the best thing ever, although not applauded at the time…except by my mother. I made the dean’s list that semester! But, what else can you do but study and stay ahead when your apartment is quieter than the library.

Since they weren’t too fluent in English, they were enrolled in ESL classes that semester. As their roommate, or should I say, live-in tutor, I should have received an honorary TESL certificate that semester along with my Who’s Who honor.

One was from Beijing, China and the other as from Buenos Aires, Argentina, both were in their mid 30’s.

to be continued