Welcome to Texas!

One more thing about Kelly Brown...

They have an annual outreach event to new international students at UT. It's called "Welcome to Texas." There are 2 parts to the event: a huge BBQ dinner-on-the-grounds, and then 2 weeks later, a square dance celebration. (Trying to get a mental picture? Just imagine lots of red & white checkered table cloths, picnic tables, straw cowboy hats, denim overalls, and photo ops with real longhorn cattle...)

Got it? Now, instead of a bunch of red-necked country folk wiping BBQ sauce off their chins with red bandannas...imagine the cowboy hats being worn by a Vietnamese pre-law student, or a Tanzanian engineer. In fact, you don't have to imagine; you can actually go and see for yourself. The 2nd of these two events (the square dance) will happen next Friday night, August 28th on the UT campus. If you're interested in attending, contact Kelly yourself (isfm_austin@yahoo.com).

FYI: Check out this list of countries represented last Friday night at their BBQ dinner (the number of students from each country is noted, as well) :

Australia 8
Austria 4
Belgium 1
Brazil 3
Bulgaria 1
Canada 1
China 31
Denmark 2
England/Great Britain 4
France 9
Germany 6
India 22
Indonesia 1
Italy 8
Japan 3
Kazakhastan 1
Korea 10
Macedonia 1
Mexico 6
Netherlands 1
Norway 2
Paraguay 1
Peru 3
Poland 2
Puerto Rico 1
Scotland 4
Singapore 6
South Africa 1
Spain 2
Sri Lanka 1
Taiwan 33
Ukraine 1
Vietnam 4