International Forum

The IF was excellent. Essentially it is an annual event which helps Hiram's diversity shine. We have a lot of international students (which is what the event focuses on), and a ton of talented people.

There were two main events.. the dinner and the talent show. For the dinner, students from around the world volunteered to make dishes from their native countries (they were given assistance from others -- but the international students were in charge).

The dinner was a large, formal event, and lots of guests (ie, not students or faculty/staff...) attended. It's very reasonably priced, at $6 a person (though if you are as clever as me you can get in for free, haha.)

The formal dinning room, the ballroom, and various other rooms were packed with people.

My plate

One of Robin's 2 plates

Anyhow, the pictures aren't that great -- they kind of look like piles of dull-colored mush -- but I assure you the food was actually quite good. There were so many options, though, that I only got to try a fraction of it.

After that, we went to the talent show... there were a lot of acts by international students (different native dances, music, etc), but also acts by us "normal" students :)

Ok, the last one isn't of the talent show, but it was pretty talented of me I thought. Maybe I'll post more pictures later, after I brighten them (a lot of them are annoyingly dark).

--David