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International Student Blog
Dear Reader, Welcome to our newest feature on the International Student Services (ISS) office website! Our names are Alejandra and Vishal. You can call us Ale and Vishu, and we are student workers at the ISS office. We have created a blog spot to provide Geneseo’s prospective students with more personalized information—descriptions and comments—on the different activities happening on campus. This, we hope, will give you a better sense of Geneseo’s student life inside and outside the classroom. In addition to Vishu and myself, we have 3 other very friendly student workers: Laura, Allan, and Janelle, who answer e-mail questions sent to iss@geneseo.edu. You can direct a question to any of us 5 and we will gladly try our best to help.
Geneseo celebrates diversity
Last Monday, September the 28 th, Wyoming hall hosted a program called Celebrate YOU. As the name indicates, the program was about celebrating one’s own beliefs and cultures. Six different cultural clubs took part at the program. Tables were set up for individual clubs, and the program was open to all the students on campus. The cultural clubs talked about their cultures to the attendees. In addition, they also had activities to showcase their cultures. Latino Student Association did Merengue music and dance show which many people tried and had fun. Merengue is a type of music and dance from Latin America, most famous in the Dominican Republic. Two students of the Black Student Union step danced for the audience first and then asked the interested attendees to dance with them. Japanese cultural club and Shakti, the south-Asian cultural clubs brought ethnic food. Every one enjoyed the delicious “real” Japanese sushi and Indian samosas, small spicy tortilla filled with potatoes. Other clubs were more interested in just talking about their culture and shared their stories on cultural differences. The RAs who hosted this program had set up a projector screen in the main lounge showing short clips of different cross cultural movies. The attendees got the opportunity to cut pictures from the magazines provided; pictures that they thought best described them and their culture. The pictures were all pasted together on a collage. It was great to see how the collage came out in the end. I had a great learning experience at this program. I was aware of Geneseo’s diversity but this was the first time I actually was able to see it first hand on display. Now, I am truly aware that I am not the only international student who is from a non-American culture. I also heard American students appreciating the differences in the international community. -Vishu
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