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I-House Resource Fair for Berkeley International Students

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3839702793 4b9d15e309 m I House Resource Fair for Berkeley International StudentsWe participated in the I-House Resource Fair on 8/19 at 2-4pm to meet and welcome the new batch of Berkeley international graduate students. There were a number of tables there to provide services and information to the students. I appreciate this annual Resource Fair hosted by the International House because it provides a one-stop shop for all the international students to know what kind of resources are around them. We set up our welcome table with our new banner and picture boards at this event, too. We also showcased our new torpedo pens that have our new group name “IGSM” and domain name “www.igsmonline.org” on them.

3839703439 6e16dfbc10 m I House Resource Fair for Berkeley International StudentsAs you can see from the picture on the left, a lot of students came to this event and looked for information that could help them settle on this campus. We gave them our English Class and Graduate Student Welcome Nights flyers. Many students took interests in the English class. Our English Class instructor, Carolyn, was right there to meet the new students and answered their questions.  Many of the IGSM students also helped out with tabling and flyering at this event, meeting new students and sharing their experience at Cal.

If you are a new graduate students and would like to receive help with settling in on this campus, please feel free to contact us.

I-House Exodus

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i housemove 007 thumb I House Exodus As the academic year comes to an end, the annual migration out of the International House (“I-House”) for Berkeley graduate students was scheduled to take place on Friday, May 23. That included four (4) of our students in ISM. Needless to say, we would not let our fellow brothers and sisters carry their burdens…. or their books, clothes, and belongings by themselves. i housemove 005 thumb I House ExodusBringing our bodies, vans and cars, we went to the I-House at 6:30pm on Thursday night to help them move. The four of them were very appreciative of our help–so they bought us some Extreme Pizza for dinner. The pizza was great. Extremely great. And, it was fun hanging out at the front entrance of the I-House. (no, we did not look too strange)

i housemove 001 thumb I House ExodusEating took about 30 minutes, so we started the move at 7pm. Altogether, we had about 15 people moving 4 people’s stuff out of I-House. While the students did not have that much stuff (thankfully), having a lot of people helped speed up the moving process a lot. The whole move from beginning to the end took only 2 hours. Josiah later commented that we finished the move in 20 minutes–a move which would have taken him 6 hours. In reply to his comment, I said: “That’s the power of the body of Christ.” (Either that or its the muscles of the body of Christ.)