While I am abroad, there are so many opportunities to get involved. I'm glad I took advantage of it. I was offered the opportunity to participate in an event called "We all Smile in the Same Language". It was a great experience and a good event. For this event , a professor asked international students if we would like to participate. Surprisingly, only the students from the US opted to participate. What we had to do was to research cool and interesting facts or events about our country and send them to the professor in charge of the event. We then had to print out pictures to put together to show about our country, regarding the information we researched. The objective was to not put any words but to have big, colorful, interesting pictures that invokes others to ask questions. This was for the students that were learning English. They had to ask us questions to practice using their English for their class. In doing this, I learned about a really cool event called The Burning Man that happens in Nevada each year! This leadership opportunity helped me to learn something new about my own country and realize how others feel when trying to speak English to a native speaker, especially since I thought English was an easy language. I had to learn how to be patient, talk slow, and communicate in an easier way for them. Since we volunteered and took out time to put together the presentation and do research, we were given certificates of leadership from the professor.
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February 2016
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