Report: Students in Abroad Programs Slowly Realizing They Hate Each Other
MALIBU, CA - Results from recent experience questionnaires and reports from program directors show that it is that time of year again where students studying in international programs begin to realize they just might hate one another’s guts.
In Pepperdine’s Maison du Lac in Lausanne Switzerland, students were interviewed to grasp a general sentiment.
When pressed about how he feels about the people with whom he has shared residency, sophomore Cyril Kane, 19, said, “Yeah, we’re all one great big family. We study together. We go to bars together. We worship together. We eat most our meals together. This place is our home. I just kinda wish people would stop leaving the bathroom window open even though its winter and snow is basically wafting in. I mean, you just need to crack it open a little while you use it and then shut it afterwards. Other than that, life is great.”
When asked what she is looking forward to this semester, resident advisor sophomore Sandy Carlile, 20, said, “Going on adventures with all these great people. I really want to travel with people I haven’t really hung out with a lot before. Get to understand the rest of these wonderful people better, you know? Also every time I travel with Carla, Lindsey and Cyril, they show up at the train station like right before the train leaves. It’s like, we’re going to miss our airplane because you guys can’t be bothered to look at a clock. Also Cyril keeps buying us plane tickets for three in the morning because they’re like ten franc cheaper and apparently that’s worth losing a night’s sleep for. I didn’t even want to go to Nice. But whatever.”
When a reporter asked program director Ethan Slater, 36, why students may begin to be feeling negative about each other, he responded, “You know, as with all families there are growing pains and sometimes people may have little bits of conflict with each other here and there, but there is definitely still that overall sense of community and love strongly present in Maison du Lac.”
When pressed for comment on how the relationships among students has evolved from the beginning of the previous semester to now, sophomore Ben Ide, 19, gave, “Sandy just doesn’t tell me she’s feeling all right before vomiting all over the car I rented and only paying half the cleaning fee because I ‘was driving too fast.’ God dammit, Sandy. You’re the fucking RA.” Ide took a pause before adding, “But other than that, I love my Maison du Lac fam. They’re… the best.”
