GWIC Mission Statement
The purpose of the organization shall be to promote social and cultural exchange between the women of the Guangzhou Expatriate Community through meetings, activities, and charitable contributions in the spirit of mutual understanding and friendship. Activities shall be non-political and non-profit. GWIC membership shall be extended to women holding a non-PRC passport or whose husband holds a non-PRC passport. Proof of citizenship required.
GWIC February book club
Jan 15th
Please Look After Mom by Korean author Kyung-sook Shin is the story of a mother, and her family’s search for her after she goes missing in a crowded train station, told through four richly imagined voices: her daughter’s, her oldest son’s, her husband’s, and finally her own.
Each chapter adds a layer to the story’s depth and complexity, until we are left with an indelible portrait of a woman whose entire identity, despite her secret desires, is tied up in her children and the heartbreaking loss that is felt when family bonds loosen over time.
Kyung-sook Shin’s elegantly spare prose is a joy to read, but it is the quiet interstitial space between her words, where our own remembrances and regrets are allowed to seep in, that convicts each one of us to our core.
Join us for a discussion of Please Look After Mom on Monday, February 13th, 1 pm at the Boomerang Bakery in Zhujiang New Town. For more information contact Jill De Felice at yankeesabroad@aol.com.
GWIC Lunch February
Dec 19th
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Due to Chinese New Year there will be no Lunch in January.
GWIC Trip February
Dec 19th
In February the GWIC Trip goes to Dafen, Shenzhen. Dafen is home to hundreds of art galleries and oil painting companies. Go there to see, how artists in this “art factory” mass produce original and imitation paintings for sale around the world and buy your favorite.
The trip is a full day tour so please bring your ovn lunch, drinks ect.
For more information One day Trip to Dafen Feb. 2012画
Due to Chinese New Year there will be no Trip in January
GWIC Workshop “Growing Up among Worlds”
Dec 7th
Third Culture Kids (TCK) are our children, who grow up outside their parents’ country. These kids face challenges adjusting back to their parents’ home country because they grew up in another culture. A lot of TCK end up depressed when they have to go back to their “home country” because they don’t feel that they belong in that culture. They belong to international schools’ culture, sort of speak.
If you’re raising a TCK, it would be beneficial for you to know how to cope with this, since one day you might have to “move back home”.
GWIC is organizing ”Growing up among Worlds” workshop, with Guangzhou’s international schools, on Feb 20-24, 2012. The speaker, Isabelle Min, is an adult TCK who specialize in cross culture & communication and the founder of TCK Institute Korea. She spent her formative years living in five continents and speaks 5 languages.
For more information and flyer: Growing Up Among Worlds 2
Being a Third Culture Kid
Dec 2nd
People living and working in another culture today are affected not only by the host culture of colleagues from other places. While remaining, for the most part, evident members of their home or passport cultures, their world view, values, flexibility, and intercultural abilities are altered.
They are not truly members of their new culture(s) or place(s) of residence (Culture 2), but they are not what they would have been had they remained in their own country (Culture 1). These people have become members of a “third culture” and their children are “third culture kids.”
Read more Being a Third Culture Kid
Themes for next month´s Gazette
Nov 24th
The next issues of the Gazette will be about “What we like about China”. It can be a particular thing, like Dim sum or Badminton, or it can be more of a general list of what you like.
We also welcome artists or photographers to send in their pictures together with a short text about the piece/picture, as well as a short bio with your name and a little bit about yourself, and preferably a picture for your bio as well. From next month we will pick one picture/piece to be displayed every month.
We would love to have more contributors! If you would like to enter an article, please send it to gazette@gwic.org before December 4. The article shall be submitted as a word document, and if you have pictures, please send them as separate files, not included in the word documents. Photos are to be sent as jpg or tiff, and as large as possible please, to ensure good quality printing.
GWIC Website 2.0
Jun 20th
Welcome to the newly designed GWIC website! All content has remained the same from the original page and still uses a similar format, except we now have an easier to use menu navigation system to help guide you through the site. Also, you can simply use the search function located on the right side of the page to find whatever content you’re looking for. Additionally, the new design features a new and improved calendar system with all upcoming events automatically generated on the right side of the page. Click on the event link for further details, such as location, time, and point of contact. Finally, the biggest change to our website is the addition of our fully interactive message board. On the message board, you can discuss any and all topics related to GWIC, as well as off topic subjects such as discussing the last book you read or recommending a new restaurant.
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Help our online community to grow by joining today! Simply click on the link on the top right of the page to access the message board and register your username.
