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Notes on Belonging
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Monday, Nov. 21 to Friday, Nov. 25
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Comox Valley campus student lounge (Tyee Hall); Campbell River campus cafeteria; Port Alberni campus student lounge.
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We all need to feel like we belong, and what makes us feel that way is an individual as each and every human.
Over the course of International Education Week, come by the student lounge/cafeteria at your campus and find out how you can help co-create NIC “Notes on belonging.”
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NIC Podcast Series
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Monday, Nov. 21 to Friday, Nov. 25
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Online: see links provided under event descriptions
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Listen to students and faculty talk about their international experiences.
Romania – Christopher Bilinsky, a student in NIC’s Coastal Forest Technology Diploma Program talks about his time on exchange in Romania - Christopher Bilinsky in Romania
Brazil - Megan Wilson, NIC Faculty in DIGITAL Design and Development, tells us about her trip to Manaus in Brazil in October 2022, where she visited the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas. The aim of her trip was to develop collaborative projects between NIC and IFAM students, to discuss with faculty pedagogical approaches to teaching design, and to explore possible opportunities for institutional partnerships. - Megan Wilson in Brazil
Costa Rica – In 2022, with grant support from the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program, Laura Johnston, NIC Faculty English and Indigenous Education, developed an opportunity for Virtual Exchange between First Nations students in Costa Rica and English 096. Laura visited Indigenous communities in Costa Rica with a local instructor Diana Segura Sojo to learn and share knowledge with Elders and Knowledge Keepers with the students. Laura Johnston in Costa Rica
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Culinary Tour of the World
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Monday, Nov. 21 to Friday, Nov. 25
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Comox Valley campus cafeteria (Tyee Hall); Campbell River campus cafeteria.
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You can’t celebrate international education week without tasty and new food options, right? Drop by the Campbell River and Comox Valley cafeterias this week and sample special menu items from across the world.
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International Student Panel
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Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022
11:45 to 12:45 pm
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Comox Valley campus, Village N
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In this International Student Panel, we invite you to meet current international students that will share their individual experiences of settling, living and studying in a new country and culture.
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SPAIN FIELD SCHOOL Information Session
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Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022
7:00 pm
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Online via BlueJeans:https://bluejeans.com/746975697/3185
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Please join the Spain Field School Instructors: Dan Hinman-Smith, Sara Vipond and Linda Perron, for this information session.
For more information, check out Study-Abroad-SPAIN Promo.pdf
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Cedar Weaving
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Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022
3:00 to 4:30 pm
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Comox Valley Campus, Indigenous Student Lounge, Discovery 218
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Join us for a chance to learn cedar weaving. Tanisha Frank-Pielle and Mahatta Price will teach us how to make a cedar rose or cedar heart. All materials provided. To help with planning, rsvp preferred (to margaret.hearnden@nic.bc.ca), but drop-in is fine too. Everyone welcome, so please come along!
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International Student Panel
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Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022
11:45 to 12:45 pm
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Campbell River campus, room C250
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In this International Student Panel, we invite you to meet current international students that will share their individual experiences of settling, living and studying in a new country and culture.
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Let’s Do “Fr-unch”
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Thursday, Nov. 24
11:45 to 12:45 pm
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Comox Valley campus, Stan Hagen Theatre
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Students are invited to take part in a ‘friends who lunch’/Fr-unch event. Come meet other students and yes, there’ll be free snacks and beverages.
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Information session: Anthropology Field School in Jordan/ May 2023
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Friday, Nov. 25
11:00 am
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Online via BlueJeans:https://bluejeans.com/2503342233/
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You are invited to attend an info session presenting details about the Anthropology Field School in Jordan/ May 2023.
For more details, please contact Jennifer Botica, Anthropology Faculty: jennifer.botica@nic.bc.ca
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International Internship in France!
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Friday, Nov. 25
9:00 - 9:30 am
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Online via BlueJeans:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84423233952?pwd=bVBMQ0Jwa0xLRUpBNFExcnNUUXp0Zz09/
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Join NIC study abroad student(s) at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France, for an 11-11 session – 11 minutes where the students talk about their experiences so far, followed by 11 minutes of open Q & A with the students.
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