8 Going home: When Home Sweet Home isn't as sweet as you remember SUSAN ALLEN features editor For me, the trip home when I was a freshman was the most edu cational experience of my entire first year. Perhaps my mind had laid a sugar coating across my memories, but nothing was the way I remembered it. Upon entering the house, I felt differently than I had moments before. Had the house always smelled this way, I wondered. When did we get new linoleum in the kitchen? Even more traumatic was the realization that I had no place to sleep, no place to call my own. My head had known that my younger sister had taken over my upstairs suite, but my heart had not yet come to that truth. Of course there was a guest room for me to occupy, but it just wasn't the same. My parents and my sister had different patterns of living that no longer included me. They seemed a bit ill at ease to have me around #s Mural Foods and Supplements. G-TT mMIHMMMMM HMUutanmwi m*mmmmAm*mmMg2ZZ£ZZZS^ryvnm:S* SERVING YOUR NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS NEEDS IS WHAT WE DO BEST! Guilford College I r£L >1 CamPM I Friendly Ave. V | ✓ I Boston / i S Monday - Saturday / 2 Quaker f / J Village / NOW \ 9am " 9pm / Cafeteria J g. I I In Guilford Village j/ / | VUi H/IN J jw> 855-6500 / I Pizza \ Guilford . . , / | 1-40 2 mi. Tomahawk Dr. ■ Come See Us ~ You'll Love Our Low Prices! The Guilfordian Thanksgiving, Susan realized her room in Milner was home and scarcely knew what to say when I feebly attempted to engage them in our conversations of old. In retrospect, perhaps it was ex actly as it should have been. I was meant to spend my nights in the guest room because I was, in fact, a guest. No matter how much I features wanted to believe the contrary, I did not live there anymore. Returning to school Sunday night was an incredible relief. To be back in my. room with the friends I had made felt far more comfortable than the place of my childhood memories. Guilford had become my home. November 17, 1995 Link with the world Profiling Guilford's Interlink program Guilford's already rich commu nity is strengthened by the pres ence of the Interlink language cen ter located on our campus. Unlike Guilford's typical students who hope to gain a broad liberal arts education, Interlink students study on campus with a solitary purpose, to learn the English language. More than thirty students repre senting twenty different countries live and learn in our community. The countries from which these students hail include Jordan, Ar gentina, Kenya, and Korea. The students range in age as well as in experience. Some may be in AACS and UNION provide a new showcase for talent Saturday, December 2, Guilford College will be host to a new tal ent showcase for students of all of Greensboro's colleges and univer sities. The free event is an attempt to bolster relations among students their late teens, while others are significantly older than most main campus students. Unfortunately, the number of Interlink students is below normal this year because of decreased re cruiting. The new admissions staff as well as the coordinators of the Interlink program aim to return those figures to previous levels in the near future. Interlink students add yet an other dimension to the Guilford mosaic. Be sure to take advantage of this cultural resource by getting to know as many of these students as possible. at these varied institutions. Coordinated primarily by AACS, the evening's entertain ment held in Sternberger Audito rium will be followed by a recep tion.