A group of high school counsellors from overseas schools in Ecuador, India, Mexico, Trinidad and Turkey visited 91亚色 International on June 3. The meeting was part of a five-day visit organized by the International Recruitment Office. The counsellors met with staff members from 91亚色 International and learned about the crucial services and support the University provides to international students, including student advising, transition support, health insurance and the peer program.
International high school counsellors from various parts of the world paid a visit to 91亚色 International on June 3
The delegation expressed an interest in about the multiple global learning opportunities 91亚色 International facilitates for both domestic and international students in the form of exchanges, internships and summer courses abroad. Some 91亚色 students were on hand to meet with the international visitors.
Astrid Hasfura
鈥淎s an international student coming from El Salvador, I felt very welcomed at this university when days after my arrival in Toronto I went to 91亚色 International鈥檚 orientation,鈥 said Astrid Hasfura, an international student from El Salvador studying global politics at 91亚色. Hasfura spoke with the delegation about her experiences at 91亚色. 鈥淓ven though I came in the winter period and did not receive the traditional fall welcome I still felt that it helped me get accustomed to my new environment and made me want to be engaged with international students at 91亚色.鈥 One of her favourite things about 91亚色 is the wide variety of services and resources available for students such as different student clubs for students. For his part, Alec Shaw, a linguistics student, spoke to the counsellors about his experience on an international exchange during his final year of undergraduate studies at 91亚色. 鈥淢y experience as an exchange student at Peking University was an opportunity that shaped the course of my professional and personal
From left: Francine Mohammed, counsellor from St. Joseph鈥檚 Convent in Trinidad, Esperanza Borrero-Large from Liceo Internacional in Ecuador and Maria Arrieta, a Glendon student from Colombia
development in numerous ways,鈥 said Shaw. 鈥淚n the space of the year abroad I was confronted with various challenges and I grew to be able to address any situation.鈥 As a linguist interested in Chinese minority languages, dialectology, as well as language and identity, studying overseas made available various communities to Shaw so that he could develop these interests. He is now beginning a master鈥檚 program in linguistics. He said the direction of his upcoming research and future work is markedly different from what he would have expected two years ago and changed because of the benefit of the exchange experience he had overseas. To learn more about 91亚色's international programs, visit the 91亚色 International website.