that's what the sjsu game dev club, we make out own games. we are an acedemic club that we try to teach people you can make your own games now with the resources and technology that's availale to us. you can actually program and write your own narratives, write your own stories. very good. and you are an illustrator, so this is right down your alley. i have always wanted to make, to create a video game. i mean, i have no excuse at this point. i should really join your guy's club. becasue i have seen the work coming out of it is fantastic. yeah i think the technology is getting so much more accessible to actually make that stuff. and it is exciting because there are these games, called indy games, coming out and they are basically being produced by smaller groups of people. like my cousin was playing a game where you build and manage your own city, , made by eleven people. like are you kidding me. like yeah, eleven people made, like this game, you have programmers, you have animators. and i don't know the industry excites me so much, like the

and many many other initiatives are going on at sjsu right now. today as we are taping this i will be meeting with a group of new students coming in to the school of journalism and mass communication and i will be talking about this international requirement. i am sure the parents out there are probably wondering wait a minute, what does it involve? what does it cost and how do we make it happen? well as emilie said there are a lot of different options and one of the things that we are trying to make sure of is as we roll this program out is that we have variety of choices for students. students can go on longer term trips for semester abroad, a year abroad if they want. but we understand that for a lot of students that's not possible. so we want to make sure there are plenty of short term programs similar to the oman trip that the students went on. so they can go abroad for shorter period of time in a guided setting with an instructor who can help them understand it in context of their discipline and their majors. so we have a lot of programs tha