I-days are in two days right now. For those students in clubs its a time of little stress and a lot of excitment. I've been at lane for four years now and it never ceases to amaze me how involved everyone is with the clubs they belong to. I also know that compared to other schools that have ethnic clubs and hold international days, lane definitely tops all of them. Only at lane is there a line out the door and past the stadium from the back of the auditorium to see 31 different dances that represent countries all over the world. that also goes to show the type of social environment we experience at school. I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least one student from every country in the world here at Lane, but I am surprised at the amount of different ethnic relationships there are. I remember in eighth grade I had three really good friends, one who was irish, one who was half chinese and half irish, and one who was ethiopian. My mom referred to us as "the united nations." It's funny because to us this type of ethnic cohesiveness is normal, but I know of so many schools where hispanic people only hang out with other hispanics, African-Americans only hang out with other african-americans etc. I'm not saying theres anything wrong with having friends who you share a lot of similarities with culturally but I don'tthink it't your view of the world to only your nationality.