Exchange & Education Abroad Newsletter
Issue #8-- 2 March, 2005 
Content of Issue #8
1. Welcome All of us at Victoria University would like to all our exchange and Study Abroad students for semester 1, 2005 to Melbourne and to Victoria University. This is our first Exchange & Education Abroad Newsletter for 2005. The newsletter will be distributed to all exchange and Study Abroad students on a fortnightly basis. Most of you will have commenced classes this week. We know that it won't take you long to settle into university life at Victoria University. If you have any concerns or questions please contact us so that we can help you: Margaret Jackson Wendy Martinec Sharon Boyd We are sure that you will enjoy your time in Melbourne at Victoria University! |
2. Email Information Most of you are now able to use VU email (which is great news!!). The Education Abroad team will correspond with you via your VU student emails, so make sure you use this email account while you are with us. Please go to the following site to find more information on how to use your student email: http://intranet.vu.edu.au/its/cs/procedures/email/studentemail.asp VU Help Desk Information
A few of you have expressed that you are willing to share your email address with other exchange and study abroad students..........please let me know if you are willing to do this so I can compile an email list to distribute. Important: Remember your VU email account has a limit you can not exceed. Delete any unwanted messages regularly. If you exceed your email limit your message will not get to the intended party and you will not receive incoming emails.
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3. What's on!
So you want to know what's happing in Melbourne and surrounds....check out some of what's happening in the month of March!!!
Ballarat Begonia Festival
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The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival |
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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/ |
4. 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 a copy of your passport and visa, Melbourne address and telephone numbers and to complete your Reduced Study Load forms if you are doing less than 60 credit points. Watch out!....I'll be harassing you again soon. Thanks to those of you who have been in contact and provided those much needed details....very much appreciated!!
5. Thursdays at Footscray Park
Sharon (and sometimes Wendy) is available at the International Branch, Building M at the Footscray Park campus all day on Thursdays beginning this week 3 March. We will be very pleased to see you on a Thursday as 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!
6. Orientation Poem Contest . Orientation Poem Contest
The students who attend orientation on Thursday 24/2/05 where put into four teams and given a task to write a poem. Four Australian words were to be used in the poem. The words were:
DOWNUNDER
MELBOURNE
KOALA
G'DAY
The following poems are the creative effort of each group, and what a wonderful job they did!!!
After a long plane delay, the first thing
we heard was g'day
Melbourne is a great city and leaving
it will be a pity!
Melbourne is home where the koalas roam
I took out a huge loan
but here you really don't need a phone
Downunder is great
where everyone says g'day mate
and you don't have to worry about being late
Melbourne it's the place to be
and it's not far from the sea.
Everybody says g'day and drinks expresso
and it's kind of funny, I guess so
Eucalyptus tree is the koalas home
Downunder in the outback zone
We hope we won't lose and be last
but anyway we'll drink beer and have a blast
where koala bears say g'day
You make them mad
and they will piss away
We live in the land downunder
Melbourne is the place to be
it is time to go to the beach
some sand and water is what I need to see!
7. Fortnightly Quiz
A special prize will be given to the student who can answer (or guess the closest answer) the following:
There are 500 species of eucalyptus leaves in Australia. How many species does the koala feed on.
Email your answer to: sharon.boyd@vu.edu.au. The answer will be published in the next newsletter along with the winners name
8. Welcome Reception
A big thank you to all of you that went to the Orientation and Welcome Reception on Thursday 24 February. A great night was had by all! Below are some of the photos taken on the night!
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A special thank you to Professor Stephen Martin (PVC International) and John McPartland (Manager - International Branch) for their contribution towards making the Welcome Reception such a huge success!!
Copyright 2004 E&SB Newsletter
Sharon Boyd - Advisor Education Abroad
Tel: 9919 1319