In­ter­na­tional Stu­dent Fel­low­ship Hosts Cam­pus Event

MISHAWAKA — On Sun­day, Nov. 6, the In­ter­na­tional Stu­dent Fel­low­ship [ISF] hosted an all-cam­pus in­ter­na­tional stu­dent event. This event fo­cused on in­tro­duc­ing peo­ple to dif­fer­ent cul­tures. The event fea­tured 10 dif­fer­ent ac­tiv­i­ties through­out cam­pus, with each ac­tiv­ity fea­tur­ing some­thing from a dif­fer­ent cul­ture. 

Ac­cord­ing to Sue Mat­te­son, di­rec­tor of in­ter­na­tional stu­dent ser­vices, ISF hosts one event for in­ter­na­tional stu­dents every month, and one event for the whole cam­pus each se­mes­ter.  

“We hope to host a new event in the spring, which will be a food tast­ing kind of event,” Mat­te­son said. 

For the monthly events, Mat­te­son said ISF tries to of­fer var­ied op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­ter­na­tional stu­dents to con­nect with each other. 

“Game nights, Brazil­ian din­ners, thanks­giv­ing and Christ­mas par­ties, Easter egg hunts, we have video game nights, and an­other thing we do is make cook­ies,” Mat­te­son said. “These are the kinds of things that we do for in­ter­na­tional stu­dents.’’ 

Mat­te­son said there are about one-hun­dred-and-forty-two in­ter­na­tional stu­dents at Bethel from around fifty dif­fer­ent coun­tries.