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GWIC first TCK Workshop

GWIC Admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:25:38 +0000

There are few more days left to sign up to the first TCK Workshop in Guangzhou (a.k.a. Parenting Workshop on Raising Third Culture Kids).

The best part is IT’S FREE! GWIC and the other international schools has chipped in to bring the speaker in from overseas. The networking night with Isabelle at China Hotel is also free. You only need to pay RMB 100 to China Hotel for food and drinks.

For more details Growing Up Among Worlds 3

GWIC Baking Class

GWIC Admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:24:19 +0000

New in GWIC

Baking Class – February 28th – There will be a baking class at the Sofitel. We will learn how to make Green Tea flavored macaroons.

The class will begin at 1:00 pm and is 1.5 hours long. After the class we will enjoy the macaroons with our afternoon tea/coffee. We will also receive a box of assorted flavor macaroons to take home.

The cost for this class is RMB 180.

Please let me know if you would like to attend. Beth Addy 153-6040-0102 e-mail: bethaddy1@aol.com

GWIC Charity

GWIC Admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:41:31 +0000

Dreams Come True Project

Following our last year’s program, GWIC continued its work with Dreams Come True Project to fulfill wishes expressed by children suffering from cancer.

As soon as we received the lists, GWIC right away answered and donated a sum of RMB10.000

Below is the list of the dreams. Should you wish to fulfill some of these dreams, please contact.

Fita : fita.naulleau@gmail.com or

Disha : dishauberoi@gmail.com

Dreams come true list for GWIC

For more information about GWIC Charity click here

GWIC Lunch February

GWIC Admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:11:49 +0000

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Due to Chinese New Year there will be no Lunch in January.

GWIC Workshop “Growing Up among Worlds”

GWIC Admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:59:37 +0000

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

GWIC Admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:45:54 +0000

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.”

Themes for next month´s Gazette

GWIC Admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:34:21 +0000

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

GWIC Admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:14:35 +0000

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.