This is a picture of two of my roommates and Oupi.  Oupi lived next door to us and is Karin’s father.  (She runs the internship program)  We called him Oupi because it means “grandpa” in Afrikaans which is one of the official languages of SA, and like our grandpa he’d take care of us.  On the far right is my roommate Roel who is from Holland.  I lived alone with Roel and another guy, Sergej, from Germany for a month before Rachel (middle) from Philadelphia joined us.  Rachel and I had to watch out before we went to bed because the boys always snuck books, food, or other objects under our sheets as a joke.