FIUTS Blog

Each week, as a part of our Explore the World Program, FIUTS volunteers deliver a lesson about their home culture in local elementary schools! Check out Guan's experience in the classroom: painting masks with the children, teaching them about the Forbidden City, and, ultimately, what shocked her and what she would remember the most…

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In the spirit of Thanksgiving service in the community, we wanted to re-post a fantastic blog from our international student and FIUTS facilitator Jiaqi (Kyki) Li to get you in the giving mood! Around this time last year, Kyki was a part of the FIUTS group that volunteered at Food Lifeline in Shoreline. FIUTS will be going to serve again this Saturday. Here's Kyki, recounting her meaningful experience…

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We are excited to announce that we have received an awesome number of CulturalFest Performance Showcase applications. The deadline is today (get yours in!), and we start auditioning next week. But there is still time to apply to host a booth at CulturalFest Expo! Show off your country and culture! The FIUTS CulturalFest is the biggest multcultural student event on campus - and we invite you to be a part of it! …

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We love our homestay hosts and are proud to have a big and diverse hosting community! FIUTS hosts come from around the world, live all over the Puget Sound region, and range from first-time volunteers to hosts who have been welcoming students to their homes for decades…

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FIUTS Facilitators are student leaders from all over the worldwho welcome new international visitors, help organize events, and lead activities for hundreds of students each quarter. Read on to find out more about the FIUTS facilitator experience from Zehua (Wedward) Wei and join us today! …

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FIUTS is very excited to have two new friendly faces in our office working on our education prorams, community outreach and CulturalFest. Manjot and Mary Kathleen are our work-studies -- say hi when you see them around! Here they are, introducing themselves to our community…

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The FIUTS Homestay Program is committed to promoting culture exchange and cross-cultural understanding between our Puget Sound host community and our international students. Recently, we surveyed our students and asked them what they have learned about American culture during their time with an American family. Here are some of their responses…

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Our Japanese orientation intern, Satomi, used her time at our FIUTS event Community BBQ to meet international students and find out more about her future friends. Read her interviews here and meet two of our students! …

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FIUTS Facilitators are student leaders from all over the world who welcome new international visitors, help organize events, and lead activities for hundreds of students each quarter. Read on to find out more about the FIUTS facilitator experience from Terry Jung and join us today! ...

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Welcome Week is just around the corner! FIUTS is very excited to introduce (at last) our practicum exchange intern, Holly, as well as two interns from Japan, Maaya and Satomi. All of them have been working hard and are absolutely instrumental in helping us put together our quickly approaching orientation weeks for incoming international students! Wave and say hello when you see them! Here they are, introducing themselves to our community…

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In late August, students from various countries in the Caribbean were in Seattle for a program coordinated by FIUTS, in a contract with World Learning, called Youth Ambassador Program. We have been posting the students' reflections and experiences, and here's the final post by Adiel, an ambassador from Barbados…

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For the past week and a half, students from various countries in the Caribbean were in Seattle for a program coordinated by FIUTS, in a contract with World Learning, called Youth Ambassador Program. We will be posting the students' reflection and experiences over the next week. Here's a post by Joashaha, an ambassador from Guyana…

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For the past week and a half, students from various countries in the Caribbean were in Seattle for a program coordinated by FIUTS, in a contract with World Learning, called Youth Ambassador Program. We will be posting the students' reflection and experiences over the next week. Here's a post by Amani, an ambassador from Suriname…

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For the past week and a half, students from various countries in the Caribbean were in Seattle for a program coordinated by FIUTS, in a contract with World Learning, called Youth Ambassador Program. We will be posting the students' reflection and experiences over the next week. Here's a post by Adrian, an ambassador from Trinidad…

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For the past week and a half, students from various countries in the Caribbean were in Seattle for a program coordinated by FIUTS, in a contract with World Learning, called Youth Ambassador Program. We will be posting the students' reflection and experiences over the next week. Here's a post by Sefanja, a student from Suriname…

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FIUTS Facilitators are student leaders from all over the world who welcome new international visitors, help organize events, and lead activities for hundreds of students each quarter. Read on to find out more about the FIUTS facilitator experience from Hassan and join us today! …

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FIUTS is very excited to have two new friendly faces at the front desk, returning mails, answering phone calls, researching, working on events and activities, and greeting walk-ins. Fatih and Sara are our work-studies for the summer and you will see them around! Here they are, introducing themselves to our community…

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In addition to English classes in the morning and activities around Seattle in the afternoon, our two-week Seattle Summer English Program also placed 22 high school students from Guangzhou, China in host families in and around Seattle for a weekend of cultural exchange. For many of our students, the homestay was a highlight of the program…

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