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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Content
warning:<span> </span>Prior to reading, please note
that this blog entry contains information about sexual violence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This blog entry provides perspective on one UAF
student's experience and it includes local, national and international
resources for others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Shame. It
can be a noun. A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the
consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. Humiliation. Mortification.
Chagrin. Ignominy. Embarrassment. Indignity. Discomfort. A loss of respect or
esteem. Dishonor. Disgrace. Discredit. Degradation. Disrepute. Shame can be a
verb. A person, action, or situation that brings a loss of respect or honor.
Shame can be used to “take down a peg or two, cut down to size”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">It was 4am,
I was on the phone with my mom. She just received difficult news from me. We
had one of those crucial conversations one prepares for but hopes never becomes
a reality. For the life of me I wish I could remember what she said about
shame, her passionate 5-minute rant on why shame and guilt are emotions that
infest our minds, which feed off the negativity of doubt and loneliness. How
she defined shame made me quit crying. Made me listen and reevaluate my
position. There was strength lurking under this blanket of shame that society
threw over me. I made my bed with it, without questioning its ethics, its
morality, and slept there content in hiding my experiences from the world. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Let me
rewind a bit. Mid-October. It is 9pm, I am seated next to a police officer as
one of the most empowering women I know lets her story of shame spill out of
her mouth. Her eyes. I am thrown back to the moments of my shame. Their
creation. Born from slaps and spilled beer. I remember exactly how it felt to
be alone, in a foreign country. Her confession makes me realize what I tried to
hide from myself. Where the puzzle pieces from the last two years finally
situate themselves to paint the picture of truth. As they come together, there
is no denying the picture they create. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This is
also the start of the spiral. A movement into myself that dug up my past trauma
from the grave I tried to smother it in. I fell apart. My identity shattered
into a million pieces once I recognized my trauma. The mind is powerful. I lost
some of the pieces. I replaced them with the ones I dug up. I am in transition.
I am confused by identity. I doubt every action, every thought. I try to
distance myself from the truth to find some sort of resemblance to that past
girl. It does not work. The distraction only lasts so long until a word, a
look, a thought, will send me right back into that bed. The pit in my stomach
contracts, and I am consumed by that night. This is what I am fighting through
in classes, struggling to maintain composure. When out with friends, this is
why I drink minimally for fear that anymore will open my vault of self-control.
These are the thoughts I try to force away while I get ready in the morning,
hoping I can keep the facade together. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I am
vulnerable. I am raw. I have hit the point of acceptance, one that has allowed
me to recognize that what I went through is not new, is not rare. In fact, it
seems to be “normal”. Through my newly begun process of healing I have come to
terms with the fact that I cannot continue to be silent. In my spiral, I saw
the details more clearly. I am not at fault. I did not deserve this. I do not
need to carry the weight of loneliness conveyed through dishonest conversations
and actions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I was raped
while on my foreign exchange. By another foreigner. I won’t tell you the
details. Not what country, or who he was. None of it matters. What matters is
that it happened in the first place. Sexual assault does not affect just UAF or
the US. It affects the entire world. The circumstances of an individual's
traumatic experience vary drastically, which only complicates the prosecution
process further. In a foreign country, as a foreigner, it becomes even more
convoluted, as definitions of sexual assault differ, or in some cases, don’t
exist. Abroad, I had no direction following this trauma. I did not believe the
reality of what happened.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Two years
later, I find myself taking the action I wish I had known existed. Title IX,
contacting an advocate, counseling. I googled “sexual assault on exchange”, the
results were troubling. Troubling because all of them were either like mine,
too old to be of use, or the processes of investigating sexual assault in the
host country is mediocre at best, or layered under social and cultural customs.
In most cases, the perpetrator is let free. The woman is shamed. Lack of
resources, reported cases, general discussion has made me feel directionless.
This directionless search is suffocating, especially to someone like me who has
always had a vague plan of my next step. Right now, I don’t have a next step. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Instead, I
have found a release from this constant anxiety. I will take up this new
identity, and sew it into the quilt of my life. I did not want this piece, I
fought to hide it. Now it is mine, and I hope that there comes a time when
nobody has to do the same. How? It started with women who were brave enough to
fight the systemic injustices, who through their own beautiful risings showed
me that honesty is powerful. It continued with me writing this, and it will
continue with you reading it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Recognize
the actions that lead up to an assault, the “normal” behavior that leads to
such violence. I had a wonderful time dancing that night, as the hip,
foreign-club played bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was something that
had the potential to be a highlight of my time abroad. Some will disagree, will
argue that we each had a choice. Or that my experience is invalid because of
its circumstances. I will argue that while we each made our decisions that
night, to go out, to dance, to drink, none of those decisions should have led
to rape. No decision should ever lead to rape or abuse. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I don’t
know who made him feel as if he was unlovable, when it happened. Maybe he was a
young child or maybe it was much later in his life. Whatever the circumstance,
he selfishly used his loneliness and his inability to recognize that loneliness
to take advantage of me. Without a thought, he used me for a minute’s worth of
pleasure, subjecting me to years of emotional turmoil. If we do not do
something about how our societies teach boys and girls to view their sexuality,
view love, view relationships, do not recognize the responsibility we have of
shaping society, we will never make progress away from this perversion of
intimacy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Going on an exchange
did not cause this to happen. My being alone did not cause this to happen. I am
not even sure what did, and I will not take fault for it. On most days I am
fighting with my mind, urging myself to let go of the blame and guilt I have
layered over the assault. I am choosing daily to not be afraid. I am choosing
to continue pushing the boundaries of society that define acceptable and
unacceptable behavior. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">-Gigi</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Here is the best
resource I could find on sexual assault abroad after searching the internet for
resources: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://sashaa.org/"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">https://sashaa.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And the story that led me to it: </span><a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a33849/how-the-united-states-government-handles-rape-overseas/"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a33849/how-the-united-states-government-handles-rape-oversea</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">There many options for help if you have
experienced a sexual assault, want more information on how to handle sexual
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">A program of the Interior Alaska Center for
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">612 N. Chandalar Drive,<br />
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130 Seward St., Suite 214<br />
Juneau, Alaska 99801 <br />
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(907) 586-3650</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.HOPE, </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">online.rainn.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://nnedv.org/"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">http://nnedv.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://sashaa.org/get-help/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Sexual Assault
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">SASHAA International
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Outside the U.S. and Canada, follow these two
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Find
your country-specific AT&T direct access code </span><a href="https://www.att.com/esupport/traveler/accessCodeModal.jsp" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Dial
your AT&T access code and, at the prompt, enter this phone number:
866-USWOMEN (866-879-6636).</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">To call the crisis line from the U.S. and
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Article on how to respond if someone comes to
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accessed 3/3/2017; </span><a href="https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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I am working on my Masters and focus on Arctic policy. Within policy, I am
interested in discovering the motivations of non-Arctic states to participate
in Arctic affairs. This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the 2nd
Korea Arctic Academy (KAA) hosted by the Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries,
and organized by </span><a href="http://www.uarctic.org/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">UArctic</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and Korea Maritime Institute. This academy brought
together 29 students (19 from Arctic states, 10 from Korea) to discuss the
Arctic from our perspectives, as well as learn about what Korea is doing in the
Arctic context. It is hard to do this experience justice with a blog post, but
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Korea cares deeply
about the Arctic and the implications that a changing Arctic climate has on
others. It is because of this, and other reasons, that students from the North
were invited to participate in the program. Beyond learning about Korea’s
positions on a variety of Arctic issues, I was able to experience the
hospitality, kindness, and unique culture of the Korean people. Perhaps the
most significant thing about the KAA program was that it truly was an
opportunity to create friendships, partnerships, and foster mutual
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maritime issues, warming Arctic temperatures, and what everyday life is like
for many of the Arctic students. I found it equally as valuable to connect with
others from the Arctic, many coming from indigenous communities, that were
willing to share their traditional knowledge with us so we had a better
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please don’t think
that the KAA was only hard work. In addition to lectures about policy, science,
and the future of the Arctic, we also learned about Korean culture. I was able
to participate in traditional Korean archery, sing K-Pop karaoke, and eat more
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although the program was short, only 10 days, I have so many valuable experiences to draw upon as I move forward with my degree program at UAF. I now have valuable connections with Korean students and faculty who are interested in sharing their thoughts about a global Arctic, one that includes all those who are interested in the future of the North, not just those who are geographically located there. I can use my experience in Korea to support my ideas about non-Arctic states in the Arctic context and how the Arctic can continue to be a place of cooperation. It is hard to express my gratitude for the Korean Maritime Institute and UArctic for hosting such a rewarding academy. It is my hope that other UAF students will want to participate in this program in future years and learn about what the rest of the world thinks of our backyard.</span><br />
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She believes that you learn a lot by living in a
different country and a different culture. So, after choosing to study in Australia ‘The Land Down Under’, she says "I decided to go as far up as I could and that's how I decided to move to the other end of the world to UAF!"<br />
After spending over 4 months in the US, she says she still couldn't wrap her head around gallons and pounds!<br />
She had never seen snow before she arrived in Alaska and the mere thought of it excited her. "I had only seen in movies how people thrived in such harsh climatic
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"I went to North Pole
which was an interesting town with candy canes for light poles!" <br />
She visited Chena Hot Springs, saw the amazing
sculptures at the Ice Park and went to the Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race start.<br />
She had planned a trip to New York and Los Angeles at the end of the semester.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"> "I went to bonfires at the Smith lake on campus in pitch black darkness and went snowshoeing up Pedro Dome!"</span></div>
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friends over the past semester. I will miss looking out the
window and seeing the world just covered in a blanket of white. I will miss going out in the middle of those winter nights
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and experience new things. The best part about studying abroad is that you get
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employers that you are easily adaptable and enjoy a diverse working atmosphere.
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Excelling in the Physics and Math
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having an aptitude towards the sciences. He says “Maths was a lot more fun for
me than Physics because I didn’t have to keep in mind all the assumptions while
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He says “I didn’t mind studying
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laboratory work, I flipped a coin. And that is how I got into glaciers and permafrost!”
Meteorology would have been on the flip side, Mat pointed out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During his research in Russia, Mat preferred using techniques that involve applied Math or Physics as opposed to
the Landschaft (Landscape) Paradigm method popular in Russia which involved data
collection exercises that he says were a little primitive. That being said, he
enjoyed the numerous field visit opportunities that were part of his research
and he spent most of his summers in the Caucasus range between The Caspian and Black
seas, mapping and studying glaciers.He was a part time employee at the
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Mat is working on modeling of watersheds with permafrost
and glaciers. He is currently post- processing Ground Penetrating Radar data for
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Geophysical Institute. He says that the team of professors and associates here
is very talented and accomplished that creates a great environment for
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Mat spent two winters in Igarka, Siberia before he arrived
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cold. <o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15.6933px;">He spent his summers around the Alaska Range making hydrological and meteorological </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15.6933px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15.6933px;">observations, driving two times a week around Delta junction at times.</span></div>
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Mat would like to continue working in academia, possibly
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Megan Rourke, a Sociology major from the University of Stirling spent two semesters at UAF as an exchange student. The Scot, who grew up in a small village outside Edinburgh, lived and went to school there for most of her life. After high school when she turned 18, she went travelling around Tanzania, Australia and South East Asia for a year
and half before coming home and starting school at the University of Stirling. She says "I had definitely caught the travel bug and spent time in different cities across Europe throughout my study and picked my degree
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imagine having gone anywhere else. I was only supposed to be in Fairbanks for
one semester between September and December but I ended up falling in love with
the city and the school, got a job as a Resident Assistant on campus, and luckily, was able to extend
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Elaborating on the academics and research in the department of sociology at UAF, she says, "The sociology program at UAF gave me
amazing chances to explore social research and I ended up presenting a
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With all these opportunities manifesting within a span of a few months, she says, "These were crazy opportunities that I am incredibly
grateful for because they prepared me for my graduation dissertation here in Stirling.
Also, my involvement in Sociology club brought to my attention the importance
of tackling issues such as domestic violence and sexual assault and I was able
to work with some amazing people to organize ‘Run for Respect’, a 5K that
raises awareness and money for the local women’s shelter"<br />
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(L) Megan with her team of Resident Assistants donating clothes at a shelter</div>
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"After finishing at UAF I flew down to Los Angeles. It's an extremely long trip between Edinburgh and Fairbanks so I thought I'd make the most of the remaining days on my Visa. We did a road trip around California which was amazing! The weather was beautiful and we drove up the coast to San Francisco and went as far as Napa which I fell in love with. I'll be back in the next few years to see friends, I've got my sights set on Arizona next and I'm sure I'll make it to Louisiana one day!</div>
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miss the compact campus. Stirling is a small city and I only have to get a 10
minute bus ride to get to campus, but I loved that UAF was a hub with
everything within walking distance- all the dorms, the school buildings, the gym,
the dining hall. I also miss my classes- the structure was very different at
UAF, rather than lectures, in my classes we often openly debated the issues we
were discussing meaning everyone was much more engaged. I also miss the Alaskan
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graduate in June 2016. After that she plans to spend the summer with her family and would
love to get some work experience under her belt by doing an internship or volunteering in victim advocacy and the third
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UAF Flag dedication ceremony has been a tradition at the Fairbanks campus for many years, and promotes diversity and international connections. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The flags that hang in the Wood Center show the diversity of the student body at UAF. For each international student or exchange student, a flag is hung to represent their home country. On November 20th, we heard from four speakers; the Director of the International Programs, Donna Anger , the ISO president and two of our international students. Our two students that spoke for their flag dedication were from Denmark and Jordan.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">The second student we heard from is Ala’a Mutawe, a degree seeking student from Jordan. She presented a slideshow about the beautiful sites of her home country, and gave us a wonderful introduction to her culture. She was wearing her traditional Jordanian dress, that had the most amazingly intricate beading. She explained that though they have a similar style dress in other Middle Eastern Countries, you could tell the difference by the pattern of the beading. She also served some delicious black spiced coffee that had cardamom in it, which is one of the essential spices for Jordanian cooking. The black, red and white bands represent the three caliphs: Abbasid, Umayyad and Fatimid. The red chevron is for the Hashemite dynasty, and the seven pointed star signifies the unity of the Arab people and seven verses for the first surah in the Qur’an. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The third flag to be dedicated was the flag from Greenland, but unfortunately the student was not able to make it. The local name in the Greenlandic language is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Erfalasorput, which means ‘our flag’, and has been used as the national flag for 20 years. It is the only Nordic country to not use a cross on their flag. Because Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, they use red and white of the Danish flag. The colors represent the white of the snow and the red of the sun. The circle in the middle represents the rising and setting sun. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594390684558013287.post-65094291932768921902015-11-16T13:37:00.000-09:002016-08-10T14:24:07.824-08:00Feature of the Month- November<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"<u>I Picked the Farthest University I could Find From Home!</u>"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">#UAFGlobal</span><br />
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Bocklet is a graduate student in Economics at UAF. She is from Koblenz, Germany, a
city similar to Fairbanks. Johanna started her bachelor’s degree in Economics
in Heidelberg University and wanted to study abroad for a semester. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15.6933px;">She didn’t know a lot about Alaska when she chose to go to school here but when she got here, she was infatuated. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">She was fascinated by the Alaskan outdoor, waking up to
see the mountains outside her window every morning and viewing the northern
lights. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">After
a semester at UAF, she returned to Germany to finish her degree and realized
her bond with Alaska was more than an infatuation. She got so used to living and learning in and around the wilderness in Alaska that on her return,
Heidelberg seemed to have lost some of its familiarity. She also missed the close attention
that the professors provide to the students at UAF because of the small class
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<i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">She says “I picked the farthest university I
could find from home!” mentioning her love for traveling and living in
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didn’t really know if she wanted to do a job or go to grad school after she
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She says, “I applied to UAF for a master’s
in Economics degree in the summer of 2014, got accepted and also got offered a
job as a Teaching Assistant in the Economics Department!” She says her master’s
program is quite interesting and absorbing.</span></div>
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The summer of 2015 was her first one here. “It is crazy to
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Having not been to a place that isn’t road accessible, she
says “I’d love to go to a place where you have to be dropped off by an aircraft
and spend some time there. Because in Alaska, you don’t have to “find” great
spots. It is beautiful no matter where you go. So whenever I can, I try to head
out of Fairbanks and explore!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“My experience
transitioning into winter was a funny one. In the beginning, -5°C seemed pretty
cold and I didn’t know if I could bear more but come November it just kept
on getting colder and darker!”<br />
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campus- very close to joining the 40 below club</span></i><br />
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Being an exchange student then, she would sometimes find
comfort in the fact that she was going home at the end of the semester. The
dark and cold however, wouldn’t hold her back from being outdoors. “I would go
out skiing in December with my headlight on!” she laughs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“Even after having a sunrise at 11am and walking back from
class at 6pm in pitch black darkness to be greeted by the Northern Lights in the
winter is a pretty good deal for living in such a cold place in the winter”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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German politics, Sparkling water, family, friends, and
especially seasonal food from her region in Germany. Döbbekuchen: also called
“poor man’s food”, she adds “Döbbekuchen is made from grated potatoes baked in
a pot with sausages (pepperoni or salami) and served with applesauce” with a
tone of nostalgia. <o:p></o:p></div>
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delicacies. Like November reminds me of Döbbekuchen: it is a very regional food
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“Easy answer!<br />
NO.” <br />
She would love to work in Alaska after she earns her master’s degree. “My
interest is in environmental consulting. I will apply for jobs and see how it
goes from there”. She says, “If not Alaska, I would probably go back and work
in Europe.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Zu Hause</i>- The
feeling of being home.<br />
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She likes being part of the very friendly community here and
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<i>“If I was traveling home to Koblenz, I would say I’m going
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hello all!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">#UAFGlobal</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My name is Panav Hulsurkar and I am an international student and a
Global Ambassador for International Programs and Initiatives at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I will be blogging about everything related to living and learning
here at UAF and the United States of America, from the point of view of an
“alien” :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you are a prospective international student or just a curious
soul, you will find a few interesting things here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My experience as a tropical dwelling creature, leaving the comfortable
25°C (77°F) weather in Pune, India to travel to the other side of the world to
-37°C (-34.6°F) to Fairbanks, Alaska, temperature- wise, was shocking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">My first step out of the airport wasn’t a comfortable one…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I had never left my native India (apart from that one trip to
Nepal when I was 8) and I knew it was going to be an exciting adventure for me.
Thanks to the internet and the unwavering ripple of westernisation that has
been traveling East, I already knew a lot about the USA, its culture and
people. As my departure neared, an air of nervousness and doubt started to
creep in with all my friends and family visiting me, giving me gifts and saying
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I guess most of us go through this phase of uneasiness when we are
about to start a new, a very different chapter in our lives. But when you
persevere through that last crest, you rarely regret your decision. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(L) I got a lot of stuff, including a loofah from a friend who
wanted to remind me of them every</i><i> </i></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">time I took a shower</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">All the research and
reading I did before I left for Fairbanks was not going to prepare me for its
sheer beauty and all the amazing people I met here. This is one of those places
where you can only truly experience when you actually are there. The climate,
wildlife, the bizarre day- night cycles, the very welcoming people and of course, the best light show on Earth; The Aurora Borealis!</span></div>
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Office of International Programs (OIP) is the usually the first official place
you visit and file your immigration documents (documentation that says you are
a legal alien in the US!). It sounds a little intimidating, but the staff at OIP makes the process anything but intimidating.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Sue Wolfe (L) and I at OIP. Sue was cheerful and very
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at the office is kind, helpful and welcoming. First impressions are very
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Junko Yanagida was born and raised in Japan, moved to
Hawaii, lived in the lower 48 (the mainland US) for a few years before moving
to Alaska in 2010 and to UAF as a graduate student in fine arts and native arts
studio program. <o:p></o:p>She lived here for two years after which she got married to Vitaly Lednev, a television and newspaper commercial designer, also an ice sculptor.</div>
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She came back to complete
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She is very interested in indigenous culture. She has been
studying the Australian Aborigines, the native Hawaiians, The Navajo and Utah
Indian. Junko points “Alaska is home to indigenous
people living under extreme weather conditions” UAF is the only university in
the United States to offer a graduate program in native arts studio.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This Kimono was the Jury’s first choice of exhibition for the 30<sup>th</sup>
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She added, “In the Japanese culture, viewing the northern
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All these factors made her decide that UAF would be a terrific place to start her Alaskan journey.</div>
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She loves the nature and says “UAF is the perfect place for
me: situated in the interior, close to the wilderness, but civilized enough to
be able to enjoy modern conveniences like going grocery shopping”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her first winter in Alaska was tough. Even then, she went to
the temperature display screen on campus when it was -40°C (-40°F) to take a
photo next to it with as little clothes as she could with her friends, to be in
the 40 below club. She says “Me and my friends took off our jackets and beanies
and posed in the very popular Japanese peace signs!” She caught a cold the next
day, but says it was totally worth it!<o:p></o:p></div>
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She loves the summer. She says, “Trees grow quick, faster
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“I miss food. Especially Miso soup. I even carry a pack on
instant Miso soup in my pocket every day for security!” She misses a simple,
comfortable meal like rice and Miso soup with family. She comes from a large
family where communal meals are commonplace. Though the Japanese community
sometimes gets together, having the workload of a graduate student, she has to
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“You just need paper and pencil. And it is so much better
than sitting in front of the computer!” she says. Helping her husband with his
designs and ice sculptures is another thing she considers doing after she turns
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She says there are countless little surprises hidden here.
The weather, food, people, the occasional days off when students get to sleep
in because the roads are too slippery, how people dress for up- winter weddings
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UAF is a very different and interesting place. She hopes many
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6594390684558013287.post-49681963034661867792015-09-22T09:32:00.000-08:002016-08-10T14:24:07.821-08:00Feature of the Month- July<div class="dividers-0" id="column-1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Marcel Soubrovsky Clemente, 20 years old, left São Paulo, Brazil, to go live abroad and study petroleum engineering at UAF.<img align="right" alt="" src="http://uaf.edu/oip/feature/Marcel.jpg" height="246" style="border: 5px; display: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="329" /></div>
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Clemente lived all his life in Brazil, mainly in São Paulo but he traveled all around his home country. He decided to go abroad for the first time in his life about a year ago. He chose the United States. “Mainly because of my field of study: petroleum engineering,” Clemente said. After researching about the different schools and places he messaged some UAF students on Facebook to make sure UAF was a good place for him and his degree. </div>
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Clemente chose UAF because of the Petroleum Engineering program. He worked with his professor Dr. Shirish Patil to develop software to calculate the pressure inside. They built it from what the professor will need to teach his students. “The software calculates the pressure in different parts of a pipe with multiple fluids,” Clemente said, “such as water, oil, gas.” His professor will use the software for basic calculations in his Introduction to Petroleum Engineering, Drilling class. The software will be “in a friendly platform,” Clemente said, “it will run on Windows, Mac, Linux and even smartphones.” </div>
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Fairbanks was a challenge and a big change for Clemente. Instead of the sea, the beach and the sun, he experienced mountains, snow, and -40°F. “It is a different place,” Clemente said, “not like anything else.”</div>
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Outside his studies he was able to experience and enjoy winter and summer Alaska. He loves photography, “every night I would go outside and take pictures of the Northern Lights,” Clemente said. During the summer, he takes his bike at least twice a week to take pictures of Alaska’s beauty. He also participated to expositions, such as “The Night Sky.”</div>
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His favorite thing about Fairbanks and UAF are the landscapes.</div>
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Clemente is having a great experience at UAF and he has few tips for the future exchange students.</div>
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“Go to Outdoor Adventures.” Outdoor Adventures rent equipment to experience Alaska’s many adventures possibilities. They also offer trips, organized by UAF, to experience Alaska fully and to meet new people. It is a great way to see around Alaska, especially without a car.</div>
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“Search for the activities.” UAF has a lot of activities all around campus, from sports to board game to photography and theater. There is something for everyone’s interest. (Come see our “What to do at UAF” page for more details.)</div>
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“Try to meet people.” UAF and Fairbanks are “full of interesting people,” meeting people is a big part of your experience wherever you are. People living in Alaska are from all over the world and have stories and experiences to share. Also, people from here will have seen so much more of Alaska. “You can learn from their experiences,” Clemente said.</div>
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Clemente is from São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil. There is about 20 million people, a big change from the almost 32 thousand inhabitants of Fairbanks. “It is more crowded than New York,” Cleme<img align="right" alt="" src="http://uaf.edu/oip/feature/Candy.jpg" height="166" style="border: 0px; display: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="277" />nte said.</div>
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His university in Santos is about an hour away from São Paulo. Clemente’s experience at UAF is going well but he still misses the beach, “I used to walk on the beach everyday after class,” Clemente said. Brazil has a lot of delicious food that Clemente can’t have here, such as “brigadeiro,” made out of chocolate, sweetened condensed milk and chocolate sprinkles.</div>
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One of Clemente’s favorite things here was the campus. Through the activities on campus and outside the campus he plainly enjoyed his experience here. In Brazil, as many part of the world, there are no campuses. The U.S. is one of the countries where college is not only studying but also about experiencing and enjoying your youth. Campuses make it easier for students to meet people but also to learn and experience the part of the country where your campus is. </div>
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Clemente will leave UAF on August 3rd but he is not done traveling. After the end of his research project he will be going back to Brazil and start a new adventure in Pau, France in 2016.</div>
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