Dear Friendship Families,

I hope you are having a very happy new year! The students resumed their studies last week and there is much anticipation for the upcom-ing events throughout the winter and spring terms. Our next event, on Saturday, January 17 at 1 p.m., is the “Friendship Family Movie Matinee” activity where we will watch Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted at the Warch Cam-pus Center Cinema. Popcorn, movie candy, and juice will be pro-vided. If you do plan to go, please let your student(s) know so they can plan to meet you there. No RSVP is required. Two other very large events going on soon are the annual Lunar New Year party

(2/21) and the Lawrence Interna-tional Cabaret (4/11 and 4/12). These two events are some of the most exciting of the year and our students work hard to make the events both educational and cul-turally interesting.

The Lunar New Year party on Sat-urday, February 21 will start at 7 p.m. with a show featuring East Asian dance performances by guest troupes, followed by a cul-tural expo with many activities and games presented by various stu-dent groups at Lawrence including Asia-A, Chinese Student Associa-tion, Cultural Food Club, Korean Culture Club, Lawrence Interna-tional, study abroad returnees, Vietnamese students, and more! There will also be light hors d’oeu-vres and refreshments available. This event is free and open to the public. No ticket or RSVP is neces-sary and it is a great event for chil-dren of all ages as well as adults!

The 39th annual Cabaret will be held this year! This fantastic inter-national variety show is truly a Lawrence institution and not to be missed. This year, two perfor-mances will be held at the Stans-bury Theatre on Lawrence’s Cam-pus. The performances are sched-uled for Saturday, April 11 (6:30 p.m.) and Sunday, April 12 (3:00 p.m.) In the past the students have hosted a reception after one of the performances, so I will let you know more about this as soon as the Lawrence International (LI) student organization finalizes the details. Also, please note that chil-dren of friendship families are in-

vited to participate in the fashion show portion of the event and they can represent their LU sib-ling’s culture, or another culture in which they are interested. This event is ticketed and friendship families will receive a discounted rate. Details about tickets and the reception will be released near the end of this term.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all once again for your willingness to spend time and share experiences with the Law-rence international students. While being far from home is at times challenging, I know having a family resource in the U.S. is great-ly valued by our students and they enjoy the relationships cultivated with you and your family mem-bers. As always, if you have any questions, concerns, stories or photos you’d like to share, please feel free to contact me at any time: leah.d.mcsorley@lawrence.edu or 920-832-6509. Warm regards,

Leah McSorley Director, International Student Services Lawrence University

Friendship Family Newsletter

W I N T E R T E R M 2 0 1 5

LU Winter Term Academic Calendar

Welcome Potluck Photos

LU Winter Athletics Home Schedule

LU Winter Music and Theatre Arts Events

Stories from Friendship Families

Photos from LI Ethnic Dinner

Festivals Around the World:

Inside This Issue:

Pictured at the LI Pumpkin

Carving event in my Halloween

costume.

January 4 Residence Halls Open (9 am) Sunday

January 5 First day of winter- term classes Monday

January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no classes) Monday

February 12-15 Midterm Reading Period Thursday - Sunday

March 13 Last Day of Winter Term Classes Friday

March 14-15 Final Reading Period Saturday - Sunday

March 16-18 Final Examinations Monday - Wednesday

March 19 Residence Halls Close (12pm) Thursday

Lawrence University Academic Calendar-Winter Term

2014-2015 FF Welcome Potluck

The 2014-2015 Welcome Potluck was a great success and we would like to extend a big thank you to all of the families involved for making such wonderful dishes. To all returning families, welcome back, we are so happy and grateful to have you again. To all the new friendship families, welcome and thank you for joining us!

Lawrence University Winter Athletics Home Schedule

Men’s Hockey Women’s Basketball

Jan. 16 MSOE 7:00 p.m. Jan. 7 St. Norbert 5:30 pm

Jan. 30 Lake Forest 7:00 p.m. Jan. 13 Carroll 5:30 pm

Feb. 6 Adrian 7:00pm Jan. 17 Cornell 3:00pm

Feb. 7 Adrian 4:00pm Jan. 27 Lake Forest 5:30pm

Men’s

Basketball Feb. 16 Maranatha Baptist 6:00pm

Jan. 13 Carroll 7:30pm

Jan. 17 Cornell 5:00pm Jan. 17 Illinois Inst. of Technol-ogy

1:00pm

Jan. 27 Lake Forest 7:30pm

Jan. 31 Knox 3:00pm

Feb. 7 Illinois College 3:00pm

Feb. 19 Lake Forest 5:30 p.m.

Lawrence University Music, Arts and Theatre Events

Jan 11 Bavarian Opera Broadcast: Paquita. Warch Campus Center Cinema. Price: Free.

Jan 14 World Music Series: Dobet Gnahoré. Stansbury Theatre. Price: $10 Adults, $5 Stu-dents/Senior Citizens and free for Lawrence Community.

Jan 30 Jazz Series: Robert Glasper Experiment. Lawrence Memorial Chapel. Price: $30/$25 Adults, Seniors $25/$20, Students $20/$18.

Feb 1 Bavarian Opera Broadcast: Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti at the WCC Cine-ma. Price: Free.

Feb 20 Conservatory Opera: The Tender Land by Aaron Copland. Stansbury Theatre. Price: $15 Adults, $8 Seniors and non-Lawrence students, Free for LU students.

Mar 2 World Music Series: Caladh Nua. WCC Esch-Hurvis. Price: $10 Adults, $5 Seniors/students, and free for LU community. Time: 8:00pm—10:30pm

Mar 7 World Music Series: Cahaya Gamelan Asri with I Gusti Ngurah Kertayuda. Stansbury The-atre in the Music-Drama Center. Price: Adults $10, Seniors/Students $5 and free for LU community.

Mar 11 World Music Series: Sahba Motallebi, Persian Tar and Setar at Harper Hall. Price: Adults $10, Seniors/Students $5, Free for LU community. Time: 8:00pm

Mar 20 Lunch at Lawrence: “Living the ‘Good Life’: The Psychology of Happiness and Wellbeing”. Professor Ansfield will elucidate the current research that explores the keys to living “the good life” and what people can do to maximize their feelings of happiness and well-being. Location: WCC Esch-Hurvis. Price: $14, Reservations by March 5 by calling 920-832-7019 or email: lunch@lawrence.edu

Swimming

2014 Lunar New Year

Friendship Family Wall of Fame

NUMBERS OF YEARS HOSTING STUDENTS: More than 10 years

The Korb Family—14 Years

The Wilke Family—13 Years

The Webster Family—13 Years

The Gonzalez Family—10 Years

More than 5 years: The Chudacoff family, Schmalz family, Theisen family, Wanek family, Costello family, Steenepoorte family, Vesaas family, Fendt family, Kahl family, Long family, Plach family, Hahnemann family, Haurykiewicz family, Kinderman family, Mick-elson family, Phillips family, Rhoden family, Siracusa family, and Vaughan family.

NUMBER OF STUDENTS HOSTED:

More than 10 students The Vaughan family

The Plach family The Korb family

More than 6 students The Siracusa, Grogan, and Webster family

The DePasse, Vesaas, and Moua family The Wilke family

The Kahl, Gonzalez family, Fendt, and Siracusa family

We’d like to extend a very big thank you to all families

involved with our program. In particular, we would like to

use this space to highlight a few Friendship Family veter-

ans who have dedicated so much of their time supporting

LU international students in the program throughout the

years.

Image Source: Zoey Lin’17

Invitations to Upcoming Friendship Family/ISS Events

Friendship Family Movie Matinee—Saturday, January 17 at 1:00pm: Lawrence will be hosting

“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” at the Warch Cinema. We hope your family and student can join us. If your student is unable to join us, your family is still welcome! This event is free and open to the public.

Lunar New Year Celebration—Saturday, February 21: Please join us for the annual LNY celebration at Esch-Hurvis in the Warch Campus Center. We will have live guest performances (7p.m.) and a cul-tural expo facilitated by the students will follow. This event is free and open to the public. Feel free to spread the word! blah Lawrence International Cabaret—April 11 and 12: An annual show featuring a diverse array of in-ternational dances, instrumental and vocal performances, and a fashion show prepared by Lawrence students held at Stansbury Theater. An international Cabaret dinner will follow the event. Both events will be ticketed. Blah Graduation Events: Waseda and 1-year Exchange Student Farewell Ceremony—Sunday, June 7th (afternoon) Class of 2015 Commencement—Sunday, June 14th

On November 1st, the student organization “Lawrence Interna-tional” held its annual Ethnic Dinner at the Somerset Room at the WCC. This year’s theme was the Mexican celebration of “Día de los Muertos” or “Day of the Dead”. Bon Appetit cooked a mix of Latin American food such as rice and beans, horchata, yucca, and many more. (Image source: Amaan Khan ‘16)

2014 Ethnic Dinner—Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

Festivals Around the World: Valentine’s Day

An Iraqi woman looks for a Valentine’s day gift

at Baghdad’s Karrada commercial district on

February 14, 2014.

Image sources: AFP, Getty Images

Couples pray to “Yue Lao”, the god of mar-

riage and love in the Chinese mythology, on

Valentine’s Day at Wong Tai Sin temple in

Hong Kong on February 14, 2014. Valentine’s

Day this year falls on the same day of the Chi-

nese Lantern Festival, also known as Chinese

Valentine’s Day, which according to the Chi-

nese calendar happens only every 19 years

Vendors sell heart-shaped balloons on Valen-

tine’s Day in Hanoi on February 14, 2014.

Roses bearing an etiquette reading “It’s time

to say I love you” are displayed on the Pont

des Arts bridge in central Paris, by a watch-

maker to mark the Valentine’s Day on Febru-

ary 14, 2014

People gathering to celebrate Valentine’s

Day in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.

Though its exact history is a little bit muddled, Valentine’s Day is generally

celebrated around the world as a day of love, companionship and in some

countries, a day of simple friendship. Some send out handmade cards, choc-

olates or candies as a way of showing affection and care. Typically, restau-

rants and wedding planners are also very busy around this time of the year!