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Our participants

Meet Iris Spruit 2012 in Japan

Iris Spruit

Hi everyone!

My name is Iris Spruit and I’m from the Netherlands. I will be a program counselor this summer and I’m very excited to be part of the staff this year. We will do our best to make your experience in this year’s world campus unforgettable.

I have a great interest in Japan and its culture and that is why I’m studying Japanese at Leiden University. In addition, I started studying psychology this year, just because I am interested in people and how the mind works. I really enjoy my studies and my life in Leiden.

It is a huge opportunity for me to be a program counselor this year. It helps me with my study and since last year was so much fun and a brilliant experience I decided to return back to the program. I’m really excited to get to know new people and to learn more about different cultures. It’s going to be a great summer.

Can’t wait to meet you all,

Iris

Our participants

Meet Daniel van Delft 2012 in Japan

Daniel van Delft

Hey everyone!

My name is Daniel, or Dan to some of my foreign friends (feel free to call me by that name). I’m from the Netherlands and I’ll be joining World Campus International as one of the counselors. I’m currently a Japanese major student at the university of Leiden, so I’m really thrilled to go to Japan and experience all the aspects of World Campus – Japan program. I’ve been a participant last year, so I know it is going to be amazing again!

I see myself as a positive and outgoing person and I’m eager to meet new people. I’m really looking forward to this year’s program and I would like to get to know more people from all over the world and learn about many different cultures. I hope to be of good support to all the participants, so feel free to contact me any time!

I’m looking forward to meeting all of you, see you soon!

Daniel van Delft

City Life, Our participants, Toride City, Ueda City

Pedro’s Testimony


I took part in WCI 2010’s 3rd Session in Ueda and Toride.

Being part of this program brought many amazing changes and opportunities. At first, I could have not imagined how this whole experience would be: the multicultural staff and participants, being in a foreign country with such a unique culture and customs and the thing that turned out to be my favorite, being inside the life of a regular Japanese host family.

Through WCI, not only we could have access to facilities and do things a regular visitor wouldn’t be able to do, but we can interact and live with locals. Additionally, even though it takes place in Japan, the program is not all about Japan; it’s about learning to see the world with a more internationalist point of view, knowing other cultures and losing biased prior views which we build throughout our lives.
During the program I stayed with two host families, both were really nice and open minded to the “flaws” that we foreigners commit in Japan, such as using the toilet slippers inside the house! But with one of the host families, the relationship I built with them was so intense and strong that our relation got stronger with time. We exchanged mails and I was able to visit them one more time after the program. I such a great time during New Year’s holidays with them and they made me feel as a member of the family!

In a nutshell, the program made me open my mind to the differences, correct my pre conceptions about Japan and other countries, and most importantly, made me leave a part of my heart with each of the good friends I made there.

Pedro Aguilar
Brazil

Our participants, Our Partners, Presentation Tours

WCI in the University of Gent

Gent 2011


Gent 2011


WCI was invited to present the 2012 WC-J program to the students in the University of Gent in Belgium. Over 30 interested students gathered and were carefully listening to the presentation as well as the stories from an alumnus, Frank Floris. We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Andreas Niehaus, the Head of South and East Asian Languages and Cultures Department for inviting us to the university.