Summer Academy on Intercultural Experience

Dear Returnees,

AFS Germany will again organize the “Summer Academy on Intercultural
Experience”. This program will take place in the city of Karlshruhe
(which is the southern part of Germany) for two weeks. It is a
cooperation between the Karlshochschule – International University
and AFS Germany.

The Summer Academy will last two weeks (August 1st - August 12th 2011)
and you can enroll for either one or two weeks. Classes will be
organized in three different tracks:

This is the second year that this program is offered and there are in
fact a limited number of scholarships available for AFS Returnees!
Yes, that means all of you quality! These scholarships are partial
scholarships and valid for a 2-week enrolment in the Summer Academy.
Your are required to contribute 450 € and the scholarships will cover:
accommodation, participation and the reimbursement of air fares (Up to
700 € will be reimbursed to you for your airfare upon completion on
the program)

The following criteria will be relevant in the awarding process:

- Intercultural experience (e.g. internships abroad, semester abroad,
school exchange)
- English language proficiency (level C1 highly recommended)
- Academic record of the past 2 years (Grade average of at least 2,3
respectively B)
- Proven record of active participation within the civil society (e.g.
community service programs, volunteer work, school/class
representative)
- Individual indigence of the applicant

In case of equal qualification of applicants, preferential
consideration for scholarships will be given to those who are
successfully participating in the AFS Core Competency Development
Program.

Please note that this is only a partial scholarship and you will have
to come up with the 450 € commitment fee (non refundable) and also the
initial airfare to Germany which will be reimbursed back to you likely
in September by AFS Germany. This scholarship is not offered by AFS
Malaysia and we do not have control over the selection of candidates.
AFS Germany will be the one handling all the logistics and courses.

More information can be obtained from their website at
http://summeracademy-karlsruhe.org

If you like more details on the program, I can share with you some of
my experience on the program as I was part of the pioneering batch
last year.


Kind regards,

Jason Lee
Director for Returnees Affairs
Returnee Australia 2000
Jason.Lee@afs.org

ADAPT Aftermath

AFS Malaysia Alumni and the core committee of the ADAPT movement would like to thank each and everyone of our participants for your kind and super-b-ly enthusiasm in joining/supporting the ADAPT flash mob that happened on 23rd January at e@Curve! The journey has been long, tiring but totally fulfilling cause it was just sooooooo muuuucccchhh ffffuuuuuuunnnn!

Now that that photos are up, we'll just let the pictures do the talking :)


after tonnes of meetings....

...came tonnes of practices. For dance...

...for formation (and loads of fun yelling and head bobbings!)

...to learning how to sign "Imagine" at the park

Miss Cheng Shae Nee woo-ed the crowd with her beautiful rendition of a CNY song

whoopsies make way, fireworks boys and gals coming througghhhhhhhhh....

first we did the point to the sky thing... cause we awesome like that,

then we did the star thing....

and the get together in a circle thing...

and the merry-a-go-go-round thing, cause we're "fireworks" :D

"Imagine" singing with our hands

Amalen was our charming host for the day after the performance.

Kudos to the dynamic duo that brought the performance together : Karen & Shu Fei

and lots of play time after the event :D


Watch the videos!



The ongoings on performance day



THE PERFORMANCE!

Of course, these are but a tiny, itsy bitsy, eeney weeney portion of all the pictures and videos that was taken over the course of this performance production. Check out more of the photo collections by clicking HERE (find & tag your friends and you!)

all photos are credited to our wonderful, heavyweight camera wielding superheroes Hsien Yew, Mark, Isaac Cheah, Jason Leong and many others!