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)

みなさん、こんにちは。

私は台湾出身のアンジェラで、高校を卒業したばかりの18歳です。そして今年のワールドキャンパス夏プログラム参加者の一人です。

旅することはいつでも私の夢です。そして、違った文化、料理、言語などを学び経験することが大好きです。普通にツアーするのではなくホストファミリーにお世話になり、毎日地域の人たちと活動することで本当の日本文化を理解することができユニークな視野を広げることができると思います。そして新しい友達を作ることもとても楽しみにしています。この特別なプログラムで楽しい時間を過ごし、たくさんの事を学びたいです。

日本でみんなに会うのが待ちきれません！

みなさん、こんにちは！私はキャサリンです。ニックネームはケイトです。友達は私のことを親切で積極的な性格で、親しみやすい人だと言ってくれます。私は台湾出身の26歳です。読書や運動、ダンスやカラオケで歌うことが好きです。台湾はフレンドリーで熱心な人がいる素敵なところです。

違う国の人たちと日本文化を経験するこの機会をとても楽しみにしています。このプログラムを通して世界中の文化を学べたらすばらしいと思います。

今年の夏にみんなと会えるのが待ちきれません！