What?     A traditional welcome party with food services and performances open to all the new students and old students.

When?    Sep. 26th, Started from 11am, ended at around 3pm.

Where?   As a tradition, we hosted welcome party in the backyard of Bechtel International Center.

Who?      Of course, the major participants are our dear new students! Also, we invited Consul Yan from San Francisco. Our VIPs also have Stanford Professors and Parents representatives.Totally around 300 people showed up at the party.

How?      This time, almost all of the performers and volunteers, other than board members, are new students. The consul appreciated the MCs very much that she said they were like people from our national broadcast. The performances are amazing too. Not only did they bring laugh and happiness to audiences by ‘Three sentences and a half’ comedy, but also did they give the audiences a graceful music experience by singing and piano-playing. They even kept most of the audiences to last minute, because there was an impressive fashion show at last of the party. Our audiences, apart from saw performances, also took a great time social and net-working around. We had a nice party even the sun is shining brightly at noon. All of these could not have realized without the warm support from our volunteers!

Acknowledgments:  Jinjian Zhai, Wei Ren, Yichuan Ding, Xingxin Liu, Xu Tan, Shangping Feng, Yinfeng Qin, Yisha Peng, Yunyun Song, Weiruo Zhang, Wen Zhen, Ze Yuan, Yanjing Yin, Xiao Zhang, Xiaojiang Guo, Junyi Wang, Yezhou Shi, etc.

Willing to participate, too? Email us with your ideas!

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Activities Department of New Students and Scholars

斯坦福大学ACSSS由秘书长谢文俊带队，参加了此次游行。下面是凤凰网的采访视频，内有ACSSS游行片段(0:41)和同学接受采访的镜头(1:02)。

http://v.ifeng.com/news/world/200909/b163dd67-5890-463f-adf6-c0f7b08fd823.shtml

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On Aug 30th, 4 days after Chinese Traditional Valentine’s day, a singles’ party is hosted by ACSSS, at studio 5&6 lodge room.

This party is designed and organized by two ACSSS members, Peng and Ruo. 10 boys and 10 girls are randomly chosen to attend the party. At the beginning, each participant wears fancy masks on face so that the participants can not watch the appearances of each other. After some ice-break talk, there is a matching process. And later, more cooperation-based games are carried out, including a word-guess, a ear-to-ear translate a sentence, and eating water melons. After three matching process, finally three pairs are successfully matched and awarded fancy prizes.

The party is a great success and full of fun because of the organizers’ exceptional entertainment talents and careful preparation. Let us applaud for their ingenious creativity, and their great contributions of improving the life and social quality of Chinese students/scholars community!

The photos can be found below:

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ACSSS has hosted a ice-break mixer to welcome the visiting parents of Chinese students. The mixer is held at 7:30pm on July 29th and lasted for about two hours. Totally about 30 people including parents and students attend this mixer. Free food and drink are provided.

Wei Hai and Tien-wen, as representatives of ACSSS, has extended welcome to the visiting parents. The parents have close communications with each other, and we initialized three tours, stanford hospital, SLAC, and the Stanford art museum. The parents choose their interested tours and ACSSS will offer help organize these tours.

Jiang Bian, Yichuan Ding and their mothers has helped organize this mixer. The photos can be found below:

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The ACSSS Advising Program hosted two communication skills workshop on Apr. 15th and Apr. 29th. Dr. Freeland from the Center of Teaching and Learning(CTL) at Stanford was invited to lead the workshops and give guidance on the communication skills of Chinese students. The topic of the first workshop is “work on your voice”, which mainly focuses on Exercising on breath, relaxation, vocal control, and articulation. The topic for the second one is making formal presentations. About 40 students attended each session. In the second workshop, five students volunteered to present their academic researches and accept critiques from Dr. Freeland and other students. The photo can be found below:

There are two coming workshops in the rest of the quarter. One is about interview skills and the other is about debate. We hope that everybody can join us to learn from the experts and have fun in the workshops!

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