Hallo,

My name is Frank Floris, just call me Frank. I will be the Education Intern, supporting the Education Manager, Celi Dolovitz. Celi and I will be responsible for the education related parts of the 2011 World Campus – Japan program, which will be a lot of fun, I assure you. I’m from the Netherlands living in the city of Leiden and a World Campus alumnus from the 2010 program.

The reason I’m living in Leiden is that I’m attending university there, studying Japanese and nearing the end of my second year. I have great interest in Japanese as a language and am intrigued by Japanese culture as well. My hope is to become a translator or teacher, though teaching or translating what exactly and where is still vague.

World Campus-Japan program is giving me the opportunity to expand my horizon even further, allowing me to learn more about people and countries all over this world, and similarly allows me to teach others about my own country. Being the education intern should also test me for my future career path. Ultimately I hope to assure that you will have at least as great a time in Japan as I had last year.

I look forward to meeting all of you,

Frank Floris
(Education Intern in the Summer ’11 Road Team)

Hello,

My name is Brandon Serna and I’m from Denver, Colorado in the USA. I’m 22 years old and have a huge passion for travel and working with youth. I have the privilege to be the external relations manager for the 2011 WCI summer program, in which I will be working close with public relations partners, all types of media outlets, letting people know about all the great things WCI has to offer and preparing WCI for its current and future journey’s.

My passion being working with youth and travel have brought me a lot of joy and adventure for the past 3 ½ years. I’ve been working and marketing for other NGO’s that has given me the knowledge and curiosity to explore the world and what makes people and cultures unique. To say I have friends in over 30 countries and have had the opportunity to visit half of them is quite a gift!

I am also a huge fan of history and culture and to be able to experience Japan through WCI is giving both of those categories a lot attention. I believe WCI offers a one of a kind experience to travel through Japan, emerge in the culture and traditions and create life-long friends from all over the world!

May our Japanese adventures start soon,

Brandon Serna
(External Relations Manager in the Summer ’11 Road Team)

Hello everyone!

I am Angela Hsiao from Taiwan, currently an eighteen-year-old student graduating from high school. And I am going to be one of the participants of World Campus – Japan program this summer!

Travel has always been my dream, and I’d love to learn and experience different cultures, cuisine, and languages. Different from ordinary touring, living with host families and participating in daily lives with the communities would provide me a unique perspective to get to understand local Japanese culture. Besides, I’m so looking forward to make new friends! Hopefully I can have fun and learn a lot during this special program.

Can’t wait to meet you in Japan!

Hello there!

My name is Catherine Hsieh, nicknamed Kate. My friends usually describe me as a friendly, caring, open-minded and easy to get along with. I am a 26 year-old girl coming from Taiwan. I like reading, exercising, dancing and also singing karaoke. Taiwan is a lovely place where people are friendly and enthusiastically.

I am very excited about having the chance to experience Japan culture with people from different countries. It would be great if I could learn about other cultures around the world by experiencing it.

I can’t wait to meet you guys in this summer!