France: Cultural Showcase

On April 4th, 2013 from 4pm to 6pm, a group of French students from SKEMA program at NC State and under the wonderful leadership of one particular student, Ms. Mathilde Decamp,s helped OIS showcase their home country – France.

Dozens of French students provided a two-hour long experience for the NCSU community on French language, music and culture through thoughtful displays, food samples, music and various short workshops. Apart from a fun display on French gastronomy, the students provided samples of French toast, crepes, and apple pies for the guests in Caldwell lounge. Students also created an opportunity for visitors to practice their French with native speakers, and enjoy their visit through enjoyable sounds of guitar music in the background.

To read more about the event, please refer to the article in the Technician about this particular event – OIS Offers Student a French Experience.

End of the Year Party 2013

flyer

End of the Year Party is our way of celebrating the end of another successful academic year. You are part of that celebration!

Please join us on April 19th, 2013 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at Centennial Campus Oval for free food, music, donuts eating competition, fun and a chance to dunk your favorite OIS staff or faculty member! Looking forward to seeing you there!!!

Cultural Showcase: France

 

Showcase France

Please join us for music, food and fun presentations from and about France. The showcase is put together by NCSU students from France and supported by the Office of International Services.

Intercultural Communication in the US Classroom

On March 20, 2013, OIS partnered with the NCSU Graduate School to conduct a FIT (Fundamentals in Teaching) workshop on Intercultural Communication in the US Classroom. This is the fifth time that the OIS has participated in the execution of this workshop and we are happy to announce that we’ve added fifteen new attendees to our workshop alumni list.

This workshop focused on some expectations inside the US classroom, cultural values that may influence such learning environment, as well as various teaching techniques that would address different cultural values and contribute to effective teaching and learning.

This time we decided to try a different format in order to incorporate more audiovisual material created to illustrate different cultural values as they may manifest themselves in the classroom, and to motivate insightful and interesting discussions on the above mentioned topics. The workshop was very successful and fun, and as always, it was a great pleasure to work with Dr. Barbi Honeycutt and Ms. Kamon Hester from Graduate School. We are looking forward to seeing you at our next workshop in Fall 2013!

ISSERV March 2013: Service Raleigh

On Saturday March 23rd, 2013 NC State’s international community participated in one of the largest student run volunteer events in the southeast. Service Raleigh is an annual event organized by NC State’s Park Scholars that matches nearly 2000 volunteers with community volunteer projects for a single day of service.

45 international students from 11 different countries (Serbia, the USA, China, Thailand, Japan, India, Venezuela, France, Morocco, Turkey and Egypt) joined the OIS team and an additional 100 American students worked together to participate in NC State 4th Annual Rubbage Ride.

Divided into seven small but mighty groups, we all individually contributed to “clean, beautiful and litter-free NC State community”. Each group was assigned part of Main or Centennial Campus that they needed to approach by bike or on foot and clean. After a two hour walk (or ride), we all transported the litter to NC State Recreation Center to sort into recycle, trash or recyclable. Overall, our group “collected 551 pounds of litter and sorted more than half of it for recycling”.

It’s truly impressive to see 2000 volunteers awake and ready to work on a Saturday morning. Our group was a major part of that effort and OIS had fun working beside our fellow volunteers! Thanks to those that participated! We’re already looking forward to next year’s Service Raleigh.

If you are interested in participating in our next ISSERV project, please visit our web page to read more about it and complete the application.

To read more about this year’s Service Raleigh project, please read the story in the Technician – Service Raleigh Helps out the City.