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It’s been another busy year in the International Language Centre, starting with a move to our new premises on the college campus. It has been great for the international students to be based on the school site and we have had a group of happy overseas students integrating fully into school life and building strong friendships with the local students. There have been 25 integrated students studying with us this year from six different countries - Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan and Korea. Their programme has been managed by teachers Marie Lewis and Gill Shortcliffe and international manager Claire Easterbrook has looked after all their other arrangements, assisted in the office this year by Eva Scott and Fiona Lysaght. At the time of going to press, the students are preparing for their end of year examinations for IELTS and NCEA. Good luck to everyone in their endeavours! Students are also looking forward to our end of year programme, which is a great opportunity to check out the local activities and have a fun time together. The plan this year is to go tramping, boating, rockclimbing and kayaking as well as visiting other international students in Cromwell and Queenstown. It should be a great end to the year before the students go back to their studies in their home countries. We have had lots more going on this year at the Language Centre: Three <strong>MAC</strong> students visited Japan over the summer holidays as part of an exchange programme set up with Sosei Junior High School two years ago and coordinated by Japanese teacher Sandra Aitchison. In return we hosted three students from Sosei in term one. All six students benefited from this opportunity to travel to each other’s countries and learn more about the language and culture. 8
Our General English programme has also been busy this year, with long and short term students from Brazil, Chile, Italy, Japan, Korea and Germany. Students ranged in age from ten to sixty years and as well as English lessons have enjoyed activities ranging from snowboarding, hiking, visits to local attractions, horse riding, swimming and cooking with tutor Linda Pierce, assisted at times by tutors Megan Collins and Julie Mulholland. The Korean Ski Team came back again in term three for evening classes combined with their ski training along with top ranking Italian skier Kristain Ghedina. We also hosted Reitaku Junior High School who returned for the third year running for a short programme organized by Ashlea King. The students had a busy schedule of outdoor activities including kayaking, horse riding, rockclimbing and camping at Glendhu Bay, but still had time to enjoy being with their Wanaka host family and activities with the local students. We’d like to take this opportunity to give a BIG thank you to all those families who have provided our students with a home away from home this year. It makes all the difference knowing that they are being so well looked after and having a great Kiwi experience. We appreciate your efforts and support. Claire Easterbrook International Manager 9
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