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Current and Former EALL Dept Students: If you have traveled, studied or worked in Asia or in an Asian-related field, or if you are planning to do so, please send a .jpg photo and a short (50 words or fewer) blurb about your activities to Ms Hinely, hinelym@wlu.edu, with your email or contact information. We will post the news in this section of the EALL web page, reserving the right to edit.

This summer, Caitlin Clark '07, will be travelling to Beijing to participate in CET's Beijing Chinese Studies Program.  Along with a few hours of language class a week, she will also be taking elective courses focusing on Chinese culture and current issues. 

Alex Gould ’08, who spent most of 2006 abroad (in Africa, the South Pacific, and Asia), studied at the prestigious National Taiwan Normal University for four months in the fall.  Having already spent a summer in China, he enjoyed having an opportunity to learn about life on the other side of the Taiwan Strait and found the experience particularly rewarding because of his total immersion in the local culture.  From dealing directly with his landlord in Chinese to owning and maintaining his own vehicle, he found that language uptake occurred outside the classroom as much as it did within.  Having spent much of his free time exploring isolated stretches of coastline in the Northeast with his four surfboards, he says one of the most memorable aspects of the trip was introducing the sport of surfing to a people still quite unfamiliar with it and attempting to ease their fears while he chased typhoons around the country.  Read more about his experiences at www.extremelifestyle.blogspot.com or in his book Stoked on Life: In Pursuit of Adventure, Discovery, and the Endless Adrenaline Rush, available in summer ’07.  Gould is a Chinese and Philosophy double-major considering graduate school for comparative studies in Eastern and Western philosophy.

Patrick and Letisha were recently accepted to the prestigious Japan Teaching and Exchange Program (JET). JET will celebrate its 20^th anniversary this year of providing teaching and exhange opportunities for students around the world in Japan. See more information at their website:  http://www.jetprogramme.org/

Patrick Sheridan '07 (EALL-J Major), Ken Hsiang '07, and Erica Carson '09 have been selected as delegates for the 58th Japan-American Student Conference (JASC) this summer, July 24- August 21, 2006.  The forum will travel to the states of New York, Oklahoma, California and to Washington, D.C.  The subject of the conference is "Examining the Future of the Japan-America Relationship Within a Global Framework. " Ken Hsiang returns to this year's JASC as a member of the Executive Committee.  For more information: http://www.jasc.org/.                                                       5/06

Alex Kraus ’07 has been selected as a winner in the Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition.  The prize is a 12-day, all-expense-paid trip to Japan and South Korea to tour the j ournalism institutions there and learn a bit about culture. The trip will be from June 11 to the 23. You can read more about it here: http://foundation.scripps.com/foundation/programs/rwhcomp/rwhcomp.html                                                                                                                                                    (4/06)

Adam Jarczyk '06

Adam Jarczyk, an EALL and Physics major, is the recipient of a Watson Fellowship. For more information: http://news.wlu.edu/news/page/normal/1478.html                                                               (03/06)

Alex Gould ‘08 spent June and July 2005 in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.  Gould is a Chinese and Philosophy double major who is planning to attend medical school. (8/05)   more

Andrew Heath '05 is in Beppu, Japan, studying for his Master's in International Environmental Policy at Asia Pacific University so that he can save the world. (6/05)

Alex Kraus '07 :     Professor Ujie asked me to help him create an updated DVD version of his Safe and Sound in Japan video series as a 6-week project under the Robert E. Lee Research Program.            The translation and DVD conversion project will go from June 13 to July 22.    (6/05)   more

Chia-I Jenny Lu '05 will be teaching Spanish and starting a Chinese program at Hilton Head Preparatory School in Hilton Head Island, North Carolina. (6/05) See article at  http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/5226114p-4747786c.html

May, 2005

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