Worldfest
WorldFest at UC
This year's 2008 World Fest theme is "On the Move, Around the World!", and many students from area schools came to the UC Campus on Wednesday, April 2nd for the World Fest Event. (Pictures from this event are featured at the bottom of this page.)
The Global Sensations Dinner and Show on Thursday, April 3rd beginning at 6pm. As always, it will be a special treat tasting cuisines from around the world while being entertained by UC's talented dancers, singers, models, and much more!
Dinner tickets are $10 each and can be purchased in advance through Audrey Pitonak-Goff at 304-357-4881 or audreypitonak@ucwv.edu.
Bring a friend, your spouse, your children, a relative, a friend or neighbor!
The International Expo (4/2/08), which is a part of World Fest, includes cultural displays, study abroad information, represenatives from the Post Office to share information about how to attain a passport, UC student displays, a chance to get your name written in other languages, and much more. Once again, we will giveaway AAA travel vouchers and other doorprizes. Plus, all who attend will receive a World Fest Passport which will be stamped at each table visited.
Would you like an opportunity to win $100? Have you traveled to or studied in a foreign country? Would you like to try some new cuisines? UC's annual International Expo has something for EVERYONE whether you reserve a table and participate or come to expand your horizons.
WorldFest is University of Charleston's annual multi-cultural and international festival held every February. The celebration is designed to highlight the presence of international students on campus, as well as multicultural groups on campus and in the community. The event's goal is to promote international education and cooperation by allowing international students a forum to educate and inform others about their homelands UC's international students represent 29 countries from all parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. International students set up booths to showcase their countries. Food and gifts are available.
This year's 2008 World Fest theme is "On the Move, Around the World!", and many students from area schools came to the UC Campus on Wednesday, April 2nd for the World Fest Event. (Pictures from this event are featured at the bottom of this page.)
The Global Sensations Dinner and Show on Thursday, April 3rd beginning at 6pm. As always, it will be a special treat tasting cuisines from around the world while being entertained by UC's talented dancers, singers, models, and much more!
Dinner tickets are $10 each and can be purchased in advance through Audrey Pitonak-Goff at 304-357-4881 or audreypitonak@ucwv.edu.
Bring a friend, your spouse, your children, a relative, a friend or neighbor!
The International Expo (4/2/08), which is a part of World Fest, includes cultural displays, study abroad information, represenatives from the Post Office to share information about how to attain a passport, UC student displays, a chance to get your name written in other languages, and much more. Once again, we will giveaway AAA travel vouchers and other doorprizes. Plus, all who attend will receive a World Fest Passport which will be stamped at each table visited.
Would you like an opportunity to win $100? Have you traveled to or studied in a foreign country? Would you like to try some new cuisines? UC's annual International Expo has something for EVERYONE whether you reserve a table and participate or come to expand your horizons.
WorldFest is University of Charleston's annual multi-cultural and international festival held every February. The celebration is designed to highlight the presence of international students on campus, as well as multicultural groups on campus and in the community. The event's goal is to promote international education and cooperation by allowing international students a forum to educate and inform others about their homelands UC's international students represent 29 countries from all parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. International students set up booths to showcase their countries. Food and gifts are available.
WorldFest is a great opportunity for international students to demonstrate these skills, but an equally important goal is to get their American friends excited about living and studying abroad as these international students are doing. International students at UC come great distances to study in the United States. Not only in terms of physical distance, but measured in terms of their skills and abilities which they learned in order to get to the point where they can live, work and study effectively in the United States.
They have much to show American students because they have successfully made the transition by learning a foreign language and adopting their behavior to meet the cultural expectations of the U.S. WorldFest is intended just as much for American students, who more often than in the past, will be asked to function effectively across cultures in today's interconnected world.