Been there, done that - personal mentor experiences

The best source of information about the mentor program must be somebody who has previously participate in the program. Abby from The Philippines was an exchange student at Roskilde University in the Spring semester 2007. And luckily for us, she blogged about it. Take a look at the following posts:

• Arriving in DK
• Meeting mentor in the airport
• First post about Trekroner (Where RU is located)
• About cooking
• Home improvements
• About the introduction lunch at RU
• About group work at RU

This was just some suggested reading. Basically you can just take a look at all Abby's posts archives from January 2007 and February 2007 for mentor related stuff, and continue browsing through the archives up until August 2007 for a lot of Roskilde University related stuff.

Thank you to Abby for allowing us to reference her blog!

Posters are up - and online

Welcome back, our mentor-program interested friend

If you are at RUC these days you will (hopefully) have noticed that the mentor posters have been put up building one (around the canteen, big auditorium and small auditorium).

If you think the posters look similar to the ones used last semester, you are quite right. There is nothing wrong in re-using a good idea, so that is what we did.

If you are not physically present at RUC and therefore not able to stroll trough the canteen and enjoy the beautiful posters(!) - which is obviously the case for all of you, who are coming exchange students - do not fear: on the mentor.ruc.dk Information page we have PDF version of both the Danish and English poster versions. Click here to get to the Information page.

Enjoy!

PS: don't forget sign up: www.mentor.ruc.dk

Start up: Roskilde University Mentor Program - Spring semester 2007

Hello there and welcome to the RUC Mentor Program blog!

First some essentials. We assume that since you are here, visiting this blog and reading what we have written, you are either:

• An exchange student, on his way to begin a semester at Roskilde University;
• a current RUC-student interested in volunteering as a mentor and welcome one such above mentioned exchange student, and in return get to practice language, meet new people - in general be international;
• a Copenhagen University student spying on one of the many cool initiatives we have here at RUC!
• or you a simply very lost!

Regardless of who you are, we welcome you! (If you really are lost, by all means stay and read what we have to write, but you might want to go to the Mentor Program Website and check up on what this program is all about.)


Another semester is about to start at RUC, which means that we here at the Mentor Coordination will be starting up the mentor program once again. We are continuing on a good basis: last semester about 80 exchange students signed up for the program and they were welcomed by about just as many volunteering RUC-students. But there is room for improvement. Reading through the suggestions we received after last semester it becomes clear that more information is highly desired. Here are some of the new initiatives that we hope will help meet this demand:

• This blog: we hope it will make it possible to keep you updated on all mentor related matters throughout the program.
  
• Comments on blog-post: this is the web 2.0, no longer based on inactive, static content. Whenever you have a question, write a comment here or send us an email at mentor@ruc.dk and ask us to post it. Often others can benefit from the question you ask, so don't hold back. (But please be nice when commenting: we allow anonymous comments, but don't misuse it.)
  
• More information on the http://mentor.ruc.dk : In cooperation with International Office, we hope to provide links to much of the information that will help you as (mentor for a) new exchange student.

Of course the most important is you: we need you to sign up and volunteer, and help an exchange student to a good start here at RUC. And if you are an exchange student, then sign up as a mentee (our term for an exchange student who signed up with the mentor program), so the the mentors have somebody to welcome.
With out all of you, it's really just the two of us writing blog-posts and hanging posters .. in short, we need you!

Head over to http://mentor.ruc.dk and sign-up, and then return here soon for many interesting and relevant updates.

All the best,
Frauke and Rasmus