

If I have to choose what was the best luck I have here, I would say I got to meet a wonderful librarian buddy. Mortenson Center set us up with some librarians who works in UOI and we call it Librarian buddies. My buddy is Laura, working at the residential hall library, is so sweet and kind. I met her at Mortenson Center for the first time on the first week here and we had lunch together. We talked a lot about our works, family, hobbies and so on. And we also met at Barbara’s house party, and then she invited me to her library which was awesome.
Her library was small but seems to be very friendly to students. It has lots of popular novels, games, comic books, movies and audio books. The way of organizing the book stacks was also very familiar and opened to users so that they can drop by whenever they have time for it. Because it is summer vacation, the library was closed so I couldn’t see any users, but it seems obvious that users must love this place. We also talked about the library system, Alma, which my library also started to use 7 years ago.It was nice to talk about the pros and cons about the system.
After the great tour, she invited me to her house on Sunday evening. It was first time to be invited to someone’s house, so it was really exciting and a little bit nervous. I bought some gifts for her at farmers market on Saturday and she came to my dormitory to pick me up on Sunday. It took us less than 10 min to get to her home, and when we got there, her husband was cooking for me and one of her sons and three cats were welcoming me. And we had a great dinner, steaks, fish, grilled shrimp, potatoes, salads and asparagus. It was best dinner I’ve ever had in America. We were so full that we took a walk for a while, and when we got back to her house, I could meet another son of Laura. And we had an amazing apple pie which made by her grandmother’s recipe.
It was so honored to meet my buddy’s family and have such a nice dinner. I really appreciate it for Laura, her family and also for Mortenson Center. It was one of my best memory here and I won’t be able to forget this night ever.
