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Bring the World to Your Home: Share Thanksgiving Dinner with International Fulbrighters!

Posted on October 24, 2014 by | Leave a comment

bordeTREATEDpavocolBy Ron Harvey—The Institute of International Education (IIE) cordially invites you to host one or more Fulbrighters for dinner this Thanksgiving.

Hosting international Fulbrighters is an unforgettable opportunity to network with graduate students from all world regions, foster mutual understanding, and demonstrate Midwestern hospitality. If you will have space at your table and are interested in hosting this November 27, please take a moment complete the following survey by Friday, November 7.

Thanksgiving Home Hospitality, Thursday, November 27

With your consent, Fulbrighters will also be given the opportunity to bring to the meal a prepared dish that is traditional to their home country.

IIE Midwest will contact you no later than Wednesday, November 12 to confirm your guest list. Note that it may not be possible to place Fulbrighters with every home host, so applications will be reviewed on a first come, first served basis.

MORE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FUTURE. IIE Midwest is also pleased to inform you that the Fulbright Foreign Student Enrichment Seminar will be returning to Chicago this March 19-22, 2015 for the first time since 2012.

The Seminar brings over 140 Fulbrighters from around the world to spend four days in the city. As in previous years, you will be invited to host a small group of Fulbright Foreign Students for dinner at your home or at a local restaurant. You will receive a formal invitation in January 2015, but we encourage you to save the evening of Friday, March 20 on your calendars for the home hospitality event.

Please contact IIE Midwest at midwest@iie.org or at +1.312.254.3208 for more information about either of these opportunities.

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Host an international student this summer!

Posted on May 31, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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By Elio Leturia—WORLDCHICAGO IS looking for homestay hosts for two upcoming June youth programs. There will be a delegation of high school students from Africa ​(ages 15 to 19)​ in Chicago from June 5 to 13, and a delegation of high school students ​(ages 12 to 17 years old)​ from India and Pakistan, from June 13 to 18, 2014

WorldChicago is still looking for ​ 5 more hosts for the African program and 5 more hosts for the India and Pakistan program. ​

If you are interested in hosting students please email Maria Krasinski at mkrasinski@worldchicago.org or John Baum at jbaum@worldchicago.org

Besides these there are other hosting opportunities this summer! See below.

SUMMER HOSTING OPPORTUNITIES
 June 5–13: ANGOLA, CAMEROON, GHANA, RWANDA, SIERRA LEONE, TANZANIA
 June 13–18: INDIA & PAKISTAN — Cultural Immersion
 July 10–24: IRAQ — Teen Health
 July 14–22: UNITED KINGDOM — Youth Dialogue
 July 22–Aug 2: MEXICO — Bullying Prevention
 August 12–23: CHINA — Exploring Community through Arts

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На здоровье, 干杯, cheers, salud, bottoms up!

Posted on January 23, 2013 by | Leave a comment
Ana GIl García opened her house to receive scholars from China and Russia during a dinner on January 18

Ana Gil García opened her house to receive scholars from China and Russia during a hospitality dinner on January 18

LIKE EVERY YEAR, WorldChicago organizes dinners hosted by Chicagoans who open their homes to welcome Fulbright scholars.

This year an international menu was shared on January 18, 2013 during a dinner hosted by Chicago Fulbright board members Ana Gil García and Elio Leturia.

Ají de Gallina, a typical Peruvian dish, was shared at the Fulbright dinner

Ají de Gallina, a typical Peruvian dish, was shared at the Fulbright dinner

Among the guests there were Lin Chen, a Fulbright scholar from Shanghai, China, who is doing research at the University of Chicago in the Department of Comparative Literature, and Tatiana Venediktova from Moscow, Russia, who is a Literature and Cultural Studies scholar at the same university in the Department of English. Lin Chen came with her son Jingli Cheng and Venediktova brought her husband Evgeniy Dugin, who is a professor at the Academy for Advanced Studies in Journalism in Moscow.

This was truly an international dinner. Among the dishes shared were a Venezuelan chicken and cassava soup, a Peruvian Ají de Gallina, and a “quesillo” (Venezuelan flan.) To wash everything down everybody enjoyed an authentic Spanish Sangría, and with dessert, Armenian Cognac and Italian Limoncello.

Ana Gil García, Judith Yturriago, Tatiana, husband, Cheng, Richard Follet and his wife Jill, Ronald Harvey and Lin Chen.

Ana Gil García, Judith Yturriago, Tatiana Venediktova, Evgeniy Dugin, Jingli Cheng, Richard Hallett and his wife Jill, Ronald Harvey and Lin Chen.

Among the guests there were Northeastern University professor Judith Yturriago, Chicago Chapter board member Ronald Harvey (who did his Fulbright in Bulgaria) and Richard Hallett, a Fulbright scholar in India, who came with his wife Jill and their son Julian.

Ron Harvey, Tatiana Venediktova, Lin Chen and Ana GIl García

Ron Harvey, Tatiana Venediktova, Lin Chen and Ana Gil García

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Scenes from an American hospitality dinner

Posted on March 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

(Front from left) Elisa Uusimaeki, Mirana Razafindramboa, Agnes Brugger (Stephen's wife); (Rear from left) Achille Mutombo, Stephen Hill, Hosni Zobai and Arnaud Dakpogan got to know each other during the dinner hospitality program.

EVERY YEAR, AS PART OF the Fulbright Enrichment program organized by IIE (Institute of International Education,) the Fulbright alumni are asked to open their homes for a hospitality dinner. This casual event allows Fulbrighters studying around the United States to get to know one another as well as our marvelous city.

For Fulbright Association-Chicago Chapter board member Stephen Hill, this is the fifth time he and his family host international Fulbrighters, and as he says “each time has been very rewarding.”

Hosni Zobai, from Israel, ready for a sip of red wine.

This year they were joined by Achille Mutombo (DRC; Law Mich State), Mirana Razafindramboa (Madagascar; Travel/Tourism RIT), Elisa Uusimaeki (Finland; Theology Yale), Arnaud Dakpogan (Benin; Economics Williams) and Hosni Zoabi (Israel; Law Geo. Washington).  They made their way up the Red line to the Howard street station where they were picked up.  After enjoying drinks a meal followed which flew a steady stream of questions and observations about their various countries and experiences.  As several of them were either from or had lived in Africa, the conversations frequently returned to issues of governance, patronage, and the high rate of economic growth found in some sub-Saharan countries.  As a good welcoming American the meal was finished, naturally, with apple pie! Photos courtesy Stephen Hill

Achille Mutombo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mirana Razafindramboa from Madagascar sharing dinner while getting to know other international Fulbright students and their American hosts.

Arnaud Dakpogan from Benin and Elisa Uusimaeki from Finland about to enjoy the American apple pie.

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Bring the world to your home: Share dinner with Fulbright students!

Posted on February 1, 2012 by | 1 comment

Every year foreign Fulbright students from all over the country visit Chicago

EACH YEAR,  the Department of State sponsors Fulbright Enrichment
Seminars throughout the country. The IIE (Institute of International
Education) Midwest Regional Center organizes the Fulbright Enrichment
Seminar in Chicago and brings over 140 first-year Foreign Fulbright
students from around the world together to spend four days in the City.

The Chicago Seminar will be held March 8 – 11, 2012. The Home
Hospitality Evening will be on Friday, March 9. We invite you to open
your homes to two or three Fulbrighters for dinner and a short visit.
This unique experience is an integral part of our students’ exposure to US culture.

Please contact Brooke Olsen at 312-254-3205 or chicagoseminar@iie.org
for more information.

Every year, Dr. Ana Gil-García, past president of the Chicago Chapter of the Fulbright Association, hosts international Fulbright students at her home in Rogers Park.

You can host as many Fulbright students you want: a unique oppportunity to get to know the world through their experiences.

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“I’ll be your Cultural Guide!”

Posted on July 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

WorldChicago invited us to a wonderful reception for the Fulbright scholars and researchers who were visiting Chicago the last week or March. The reception took place at the Allerton Hotel, a Chicago landmark, right on the Magnificent Mile on March 30, 2011.

The Allerton Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Built in 1923, the Allerton Hotel was one of the early high-rises on Michigan Avenue. It was right on the 23rd floor of the hotel where the gathering took place. During the 1950’s Don McNeil broadcasted from that sumptuous space “The Breakfast Club,” a popular radio program that started in 1933. Famous Hollywood legends like Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Ginger Rogers, and James Stewart were featured guests.

The six board members who attended served as “Cultural Guides” after the reception. Marilyn Susman, Cristina Sisson, Monica Swope, Don Garner, Ana Gil-García and Elio Leturia took groups between six and 13 Fulbrighters to dinner. These academics, who were coming from different parts of the country, enjoyed a delicious meal at an ethnic restaurant.

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Sharing a meal with the Fulbright community

Posted on July 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Board member Cristina Sisson, right, and three Fulbright students she took to dinner to Irazú, a Costa Rican restaurant in Bucktown, Chicago

On the evening of March 25, 2011, four board members of the Chicago Chapter of the Fulbright Association shared a meal and their time while getting to know Fulbright visitors. Each spring, the Institute of International Education (IIE) organizes the Fulbright Enrichment Seminar which invites dozens of Fulbright fellows studying around the country to Chicago.

The Home Hospitality Dinner is a community-building event in which a Fulbright alum takes a couple or more (sometimes ten!) visiting Fulbright students to dinner, either at home or at a restaurant. Monica Swope, Vice President of our chapter, who took two students this year says, “the Home Hospitality Dinner provides me with the opportunity to meet Fulbrighters in a more informal setting and is always a time well spent and treasured.”

A similar event took place the week after, on April 1, 2011 when a different group of visiting Fulbright scholars and researchers were invited by four chapter members to share a meal. They opened their homes to host groups of Fulbrighters who were coming from different academic institutions across the U.S.

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Knock, knock. Bring the world to your home

Posted on January 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Dr. Ana Gil García, board member of the Chicago Chapter of the Fulbright Association welcomes every year 10 students from different countries of the world for a dinner in her home during the Fulbright Enrichment Seminar.

Each year, the State Department sponsorsFulbright Enrichment Seminars throughout the country. The IIE (Institute of International Education) Midwest Regional Center organizes the Fulbright Enrichment Seminar in Chicago and brings over 140 first-year Foreign Fulbright students from around the world together to spend four days in the City.

The Seminar will be held March 24 – 27, 2011.The Home Hospitality Evening will be on Friday, March, 25, 2011. We invite you to open your homes to two or three Fulbrighters for dinner and a short visit. This wonderful experience is a highlight for our students as they are eager to better acquaint themselves with their host culture in the U.S.

Contact Joseph P. Graff at 312-254-3207 or jgraff@iie.org for more information.

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Share dinner with Fulbright scholars!

Posted on January 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Since 1952, WorldChicago (formerly the International Visitors Center of Chicago) has worked to create a globally competent society and encourage cultural engagement by promoting Citizen Diplomacy one handshake at a time. In hosting approximately 800 international visitors per year, WorldChicago offers Chicago-area citizens ways to be involved in Citizen Diplomacy. Take advantage of the unique opportunity to host 3-5 international Fulbright Senior Scholars in your home for dinner.

Join us on the evening of Friday, April 1, 2011 and open your homes and hearts to this prestigious group of professors, researchers and experts from around the world who are residing at U.S. colleges and universities for 6-12 months. Help create personal & everlasting memories for these scholars who will be in Chicago for a professional conference hosted by WorldChicago.

Contact John Baum at (312) 254-1800 x100 or jbaum@worldchicago.org for more information or to sign up.

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