Exchange & Education Abroad Newsletter
Issue #1 -- 25 August, 2004 
Content of Issue 1
1. Welcome By now you all would have experienced what it's like to be a VU student, and you should be feeling very comfortable in your adopted environment (if you're not please let us know!!). |
2. Victoria University Open Day
The Education Abroad team were present at VU Open Day on Sunday 8 August. The day was very successful and those who attended seemed to be having lots of fun. Did any of you attend? What did you think? There were many "freebies" (free giveaways) on the day :coffee, hamburgers, fairy floss, lollies and entertainment. |
3. Email Information
It's really great to see that most of you are using your VU email. There has been some great feedback from the Welcome Reception photos. According to the "weekly stats" on the site, the photos have been viewed 471 times and downloaded 40 times (well done guys!).
I've had a small response from people saying they are willing to share their email address with others exchange and study abroad students..........please let me know if you are willing to do this so I can compile a email list to distribute.
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To make sure that you receive all your emails.....please make sure cull them on a regular basis!
4. What's on!
The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens! I'm sure that you all have been watching to see how your home countries fare in the medal tally. However, now you're in Australia, I'm also sure you've experienced how much the Aussies support their Olympians, and that you have been cheering just as loud for the Aussies!
You may also be interested in visiting the following websites to discover what is happening in Melbourne and around regional Victoria:
http://www.beat.com.au/melb.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/countries/australia/entertainment/
5. Your Contribution
We would really like you to become actively involved in the Newsletter. So if you have any interesting information, announcement, or something else you would like to contribute, please email this to me sharon.boyd@vu.edu.au and I will see that it is inserted in the next Newsletter. We would like the Newsletter to be available to you all on a fortnightly basis.......so keep the contributions coming. Anything you have to say is important to us!
Also I am still waiting for some of you to provide Melbourne telephone numbers and complete your Reduced Study Load forms if you are doing less than 60 credit points. Watch out!....I'll be harrassing you again soon. Thanks to those of you who have been in contact and provided those much needed details....very much appreciated!!
6. Thursdays at Footscray Park
Remember Samantha and Sharon are at Footscray Park campus between 11.00am and 2.00pm. We were so pleased to see have so many of you visit us on Thursday. We are there to promote the Education Abroad program to VU students, and it is fantastic if you are around when we are talking to VU students!
Keep up the good work!
Your Education Abroad Team
Margaret, Samantha, and Sharon
7. Get Together!
Keep tuned - in the process of planning a games night for Thursday 23 September. Keep this night free!!
More info to come.
Copyright 2003 E&SB Newsletter
Sharon Boyd - Advisor Education Abroad
Tel: 9919 1319