Get-together

Copy from the mail sent around...

Dear Mentors & Mentees,

A warm welcome to all of you who have (or will soon have) arrived, and a big ‘thank you’ to all of our volunteers! We hope your experience with the mentor program was satisfying, and we’d like to celebrate you participation. Therefore, you are now officially invited to a gathering in (nearly) downtown Copenhagen, with plenty of fine Danish beer, foosball, good opportunities to discover and enjoy CPH nightlife and, naturally, lots of fun.

We will meet on

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15^TH

at CAFÉ’EN FUNKE (Blegdamsvej 2, Skt. Hans Torv)

at 8:00 PM

The International Office will pay for some beer and snacks, and of course we hope to see all of you there! However, this would require that we book the entire place, so please let us know ASAP whether you are coming or not by responding to the
link below.

http://www.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=LBIJ9F

Just fill in your name and e-mail address (put it in the comment
section) and mark the check box under the date. It takes just two minutes, and we need to have your response by February 5^th.

We’re looking forward to kick your ass in foosball :)

Rasmus & Frauke

Mentor Program Coordinators

Exchange student FAQ

The following PDF file might be very helpful for all exchange students or mentors trying to help-out:

http://www.ruc.dk/ruc_en/studying/IntOffice/intsec/faq/

The following questions are answered:

How do I get a Residence Permit?
How do I register in Denmark?
What about Health Insurance?
Other kinds of insurance needed?
How do I get a work permit?
How do I get a Student Card?
How do I get a Library Card?
How do I get an E-Mail account?
How much money do I need per month?
How do I get a Danish bank account?
Where can I get more information?

RUC Foundation Course

Check out this email, just in case you missed it in your inbox:

Dear all mentor program participants - RUC students as well as exchange students

The mentor-matching process is over and all arriving exchange students has been partnered with a RUC mentor. We hope that you have already established contact with each other; some might already have met.

From here on you will receive just two more mails from the mentor-program.

This is the first one, where we want to first all thank you for participating in the program and second inform you about the Foundation Course organized by RUC's Languages and Intercultural Communication Services. The whole course stretched over several days and the exchange students are expected to participate all days. (You will probably have received information about this course already.)
The course starts off with a 9.15 breakfast on Wednesday the 16 of January, and here mentors of exchange students - that would be all your RUC students, who volunteered for this program - are invited to participate .
We strongly encourage all you mentors to participate in the event. It's a great way to meet some of your mentee's coming classmates as well as get more general information about the international initiatives here at RUC. Some of you are mentoring an exchange student who will be arriving after the 16th of January. In that case you are still very much welcome to participate in the Foundation Course breakfast.
The program for the Foundation Course in it's entire form is attached.

The second email, which you will receive from us, will be about an upcoming mentor-program event. This event is expected to take places either late January or sometime in February, but it is not yet settled. More information will follow.

That's it. Once again: thank you for participating. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at mentor@ruc.dk

All the best,
Frauke and Rasmus
Mentor-program coordinators

A mentor-movie ... and Happy New Year

Happy new year to all.

If you're sitting at home during the vacation and want to know some more about what it's like to be an exchange student we suggest you watch a French movie called L'Auberge Espagnole or The Spanish Apartment in English. Check out the trailer above.

Enjoy!
(Sorry, couldn't find a trailer with English subtitles, but should be understandable).