Home cooking for international students
Posted on 3/10/2010
Topics: Living in the U.S.
Students who take courses in the U.S. can often find organizations created to help them adapt to American customs. Groups like these typically offer English as a second language classes, provide social events for international students and connect scholars with tutors and job opportunities.
Programs like this can be found all over the U.S., including the middle of Colorado. The Fort Collins International Center, a non-profit affiliated with Colorado State University, gives international students opportunities to interact with their peers in a non-academic environment.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan recently reported on supporters of the center who volunteer their time and cooking skills to help make international students feel at home. For example, one local resident, Jean Griswold devised a weekly breakfast program in response to a request for vegetarian meals for an Indian student's father.
"I said just come for breakfast. We don't have to have meat for breakfast. And we had waffles," she told the newspaper.
Griswold's breakfasts are one example of the lengths universities will go to in order to make international students feel comfortable. Other schools pair international graduate students with local undergraduates to help them practice English. Still others offer trips to sporting events.
The Institute of International Education estimated more than 671,000 international students were enrolled at American universities during the academic year 2008-2009.
Programs like this can be found all over the U.S., including the middle of Colorado. The Fort Collins International Center, a non-profit affiliated with Colorado State University, gives international students opportunities to interact with their peers in a non-academic environment.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan recently reported on supporters of the center who volunteer their time and cooking skills to help make international students feel at home. For example, one local resident, Jean Griswold devised a weekly breakfast program in response to a request for vegetarian meals for an Indian student's father.
"I said just come for breakfast. We don't have to have meat for breakfast. And we had waffles," she told the newspaper.
Griswold's breakfasts are one example of the lengths universities will go to in order to make international students feel comfortable. Other schools pair international graduate students with local undergraduates to help them practice English. Still others offer trips to sporting events.
The Institute of International Education estimated more than 671,000 international students were enrolled at American universities during the academic year 2008-2009.
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