Happy Thanksgiving!

                As December approaches, students have just returned from a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving Break. We had three blissful days off of school to celebrate the holiday with our friends and families and reminisce on the things they are thankful for. Thanksgiving is a special holiday dedicated to spend with family to appreciate everyone and everything in your life. International Students take this time to disconnect from school and travel to other parts of the United States to meet friends or explore a new city. There are no tests, no papers, no labs, just time to relax! However students spent their break, I can imagine a lot of food was eaten! Thanksgiving dinner is known for certain foods such as all the side dishes, turkey, cranberry jam, and cornbread. It is a time for indulgence and officially begins the Holiday Season in the U.S. The week before the break, we even celebrated Thanksgiving dinner in our dining hall! They served turkey, mac and cheese, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and all the traditional Thanksgiving dishes! Everyone ate so much food that we were stuffed! It was a great way to prepare for exciting Thanksgiving festivities! Anyone is welcomed to celebrate Thanksgiving as it is a time to be grateful and share with friends. If you have ever celebrated Thanksgiving what did you do and what were you grateful for? Send us a message we are always grateful for an opportunity to hear from students.

Link to Agnes Scott Thanksgiving Message: http://animoto.com/play/diRi3FKpdIartDg8xzbYvQ

        

Beautiful ginkgo tree on campus!

Festive Thanksgiving dessert!

Yum!

International Fashion Show

Every year the Office of International Education and the International Student Association (ISA) puts on an extravagant fashion show during Diversifest. The Office of International Education (OIE) is a great resource on campus for international students and all students looking to study abroad. OIE works very closely with the International Student Association (ISA).  ISA is a student organization on campus that offers a space for international students and others alike to bond, share their culture, promote cultural diversity, and have awesome events like the fashion show! The fashion show showcases beautiful outfits from nations far and wide! The entire community is welcomed and encouraged to participate as models or by donating traditional clothing from their country or one they have visited. The purpose of the show is to highlight different cultures and countries represented in our community as well as to fund raise for a different charity every year. This year’s charity was “Global Growers”.

“The Global Growers Network creates new agricultural opportunities in Georgia for international farmers who were forced to flee their homelands as refugees, due to war, genocide and persecution. The Network uses a whole-systems approach to produce good food, train and place farmers, and create economic opportunity for local communities in the Decatur-Clarkston-Stone Mountain area.”

Check out this cool behind the scenes video from current exchange student Nagima Kulbaeva! Keep up with OIE campus and community events on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/asc.internationaleducation

Diversifest

 Every fall we have a whole month dedicated to celebrating and embracing the diversity we have on our campus called Diversifest! This year we had tons of different programs and activities that were put on by our multicultural student organizations and our Center for Student Engagement. The Muslim Student had a Fast-A-Thon to help educate the Agnes community about the Islamic Faith by joining together to fast throughout the day from sun up till sun down.  We also celebrated Diwali (Festival of Lights) with a huge celebration with food from South Asia, dancing, and fantastic music. The International Student association put on a phenomenal Fashion show for the whole campus. They showcased global fashion trends, and showed everyone the diversity we have in our community through fashion!! Hopefully you will be here soon to celebrate Diversifest with us next year!! Cheers!

  

Greeting from Agnes Scott!

Hello Everyone!

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our new blog for International Admission! My name is Joelle Atere-Roberts, and I am the International Fellow for the Admission Office! I'm a junior here at Agnes Scott, and I'm a biology major intending on doing the dual-degree engineering program. I hope this blog can be a way for you all to learn about life at Agnes Scott, and all the wonderful things that happen on our campus! Feel free to comment on any posts, and ask questions about anything you would like to know! Enjoy!

Election 2012

Election 2012!

 Election day has finally arrived!! It’s been an exciting time around Agnes Scott’s campus for politics. Here’s some pictures from the viewing party on election night! Students gathered together till 2 AM to watch the results roll in! Congratulations to President Barack Obama on winning his 2nd term!

The Greatness Before Us

Hey All!

I hope everyone is enjoying their week! It’s been an exciting time around campus the past two weeks. The new campaign video for the college has been released! The new campaign, “The Greatness Before Us”, was launched two weekends ago. The goal of the campaign is to promote student excellence, faculty excellence, innovative programming, and expand the campus vision. In celebration of the campaign launch, we had a wonderful event on campus with students, faculty, staff, alumna. There was a live band blasting awesome music for everyone to dance to. It was a great way for students, Board of Trustee members and alum to join forces in kicking off the new campaign, and have a fun dance party at the same time. The event was beautiful, and the whole campus community had a great time celebrating the launch of the new campaign!

http://www.agnesscott.edu/thegreatnessbeforeus/student-excellence.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PyZmbcbR9Hk

Photo credit: Gabrielle Shepard, Izzie Atkinson, & Paige Sullivan

Halloween!

Greetings Everyone!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

            It was chilly but sunny afternoon in Decatur, and HALLOWEEN!! It is probably one of the most festive days on campus. Halloween is an exciting holiday that combines traditional harvest festival celebrations with customs more unique to the occasion like costume wearing, trick-or-treating, pranks, spooky stories, and festive black and orange decorations! It is celebrated on October 31^st every year. There are so many fun and exciting activities that go along with Halloween. At night kids dress up as their favorite characters, animals, and even ghosts! In the spirit of the fall season, several people make jack-o-lanterns out of pumpkins! We had a pumpkin carving contest in the dining hall this week! Check out the pictures! Sometimes they have scary faces, and people get creative like the pumpkin with the infamous Agnes Scott ring carved on it. Everyone on campus was definitely in the Halloween spirit. Students, faculty, staff and even President Kiss dressed up in costume!

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