For those of you unfamiliar with Skiles walkway, it is one of the more heavily traversed walkways on Georgia Tech's campus, and is often lined with people passing out fliers or free snacks to advertise for their club's events. Well, that's what the exchange students have been doing all this week-- taking turns passing out free coffee and fliers to advertise for one of the events, Café Inglés, that happens weekly at the En Vivo campus ministry house. This is an awesome event because it's set up like a coffee house and all of the exchange students and ministry staff get to help people learn English. Anyways, apparently the concept of free food and drink is more than a little foreign to Spaniards. Almost all of the students were reluctant to even talk to us, much less take a free café con leche and a flier.
After the coffee passing-out, en vivo hosted a welcome-back party for some of the staff that had been gone the previous semester. This was the first event that the campus house hosted that the exchange students were a part of. It was really cool to get to talk to Spaniards. I've found that once I start talking to them, it's not too hard to keep up a conversation in Spanish!
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