Assembly of International Students University of Pennsylvania
Archive for October, 2009
4th Annual International Opportunities Fair
Friday, October 30th, 2009
11am – 3:00pm
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
3417 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Presented by University of Pennsylvania
Career Services & Penn Abroad, Office of International Programs
Update from Community Engagement
We will meet once every two weeks and when events come up, we will meet once a week.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 29th of October, 5:30pm at Huntsman GSR Rm 366
Our committee is currently planning….
Movie Night: A tentative idea – BYO international food with an international-theme movie such as Crash, Babel, or something else.
American Sports Event: A gathering once in a while to watch an American sport together – most likely a Phillies game!
Committee dinner: There will be an AIS US Engagement Committee Dinner this Friday, after our committee meeting at 4:30pm. The location will be announced soon!
Community Service event: Every year, the AIS US Engagement Committee does a community service event for some local elementary/middle school students. We are looking for a different school to help out this year, and this event will most likely take place in November.
BYO event: US engagement committee has been assigned the task of organizing BYO events for the AIS as a whole.
Penn International Online Chats
Let’s tell incoming students how amazing and welcoming Penn and AIS is!! As international students, you know how confusing and uncertain the process can seem – we would like to offer this as a way to connect students to campus and learn about what life at Penn is like directly from Penn students! This fall, International chats will be held on the following dates.
Monday, October 26th 2pm-5pm for Europe, Africa, Middle East
Thursday, October 29th 6pm-9pm for Mexico, Central America, South America and Canada
Wednesday, November 4th 9am-12pm for Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand
If you are available to help for at least an hour (preferably two!) during any of those sessions, please send an email to jordanpa@admissions.upenn.edu with your availability.
It’s never too late to get invovled!
You can still get involved, and remember, you are more than welcome to join as many committees as you want to! If you want to have yourself added to another committee listserv, e-mail the secretary (Rekha Jois -rejois@seas.upenn.edu) with the name of the committee you would like to join. Also consult the table below in order to e-mail the correct executive liasion for your desired committee, to ask them what you may have missed in any previous committee meetings.
IMP: Chloe Ho (chloeho@sas.upenn.edu)
ISO: Trixie Canivel (trixiecanivel@gmail.com)
Social: Florentina Dragulescu (fdrag@sas.upenn.edu)
Alumni and Employment: Amia Liu (amia@wharton.upenn.edu)
Advocacy: Shama Jamal (shama.jamal@gmail.com)
Community Engagement: Namu Lee (Leenamu@gmail.com)
Message from the President
Hello to both new and old AIS members!
Welcome to our new website! We’re really excited to launch the new layout of the AIS website because with this, we will be able to communicate with all of you even better than before! This new website will make keep you guys more up-to-date on what we’ve done, what we’re doing and what we plan to do. With the new blog format, we’re hoping that information is more accessible to you all as well. So please look around and enjoy our new website!
For any feedback, comments and/or suggestions, please write me at president@aisupenn.org!
We look forward to seeing you at all of AIS’ events this coming semester! Here’s to the new website, making new friends and an exciting new year!
Cheers,
Trixie Canivel