Roomates

James is a masters of accounting and marketing student from Manila in the Philippines. He is in his second year here at the University so is fairly knowledgeable in what is around Adelaide and what to do. He speaks very good English and is fairly outgoing and social. He is quite possibly the youngest looking 30 year old I have ever seen. He worked for a number of years in Manila after getting his Bachelors and is now back to school. Being the oldest, I think James got preference for the third deck single room and non shared bathroom. He shares third deck with the large patio.

Sam is a bachelors of mechanical engineering student from Singapore. He is quiet and his English is sometimes difficult to understand. It seems that he has transferred to the University from a school in Singapore and will be here for a couple of years completing his degree. He did offer to cook us curry on Saturday night though. We had to sneak him into a bar because the bouncers had a real issue with his bathing suit. Sam lives on the same floor as me and we share the bathroom on first deck.  Also turns out Sam got a room with a balcony.  My room is much bigger but I think having the balcony would have been nicer.

Mark is a bachelors of marketing student from University of Illinois. He is from right outside of Chicago and is a junior taking a whole bunch of electives here. He is only an exchange student so will be leaving in July. He seems interested in maybe joining the SCUBA club. Mark came with 2 other students from U of I. Katie is the one he knows best and she came out with us our first night. Wanting more than anything to speak to an Australian, she took a 12 sided 50cent piece and began talking to a random man. Turned out he was the DJ for the bar and invited us back for drinks and fun on him. Mark lives on main deck.

Victor is our final roommate. By far the youngest of the 4, he came delivered by his mom from Malaysia. Right now I know very little about him. He is quieter than Sam and I’m not even sure how his English is. He lives on main deck and shares the bathroom with Mark.