International Week concludes tonight with International Coffee Hour and International Game Night.
Students have an opportunity to meet people from different cultures, mingle over a cup of coffee from The Buzz Coffeehouse and enjoy free snacks between 4 and 6 p.m.
“Coffee hour is kind of a social institution for me,” said Kellen Wertz, Mills International Center office manager. “My friends and I, we come, we meet, we talk about what our plans are for the weekend and how our weeks were and it’s just a sort of place to come and decompress … there’s all kinds of people here and its got a really great energy.”
Following the Coffee Hour, students can play games from around the world at International Game Night from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Mills International Center in the EMU.
The center has a variety of international games, including Cranium, Pictionary, Catchphrase, Mahjong, Go, Spanish Scrabble, Mancala, Mille Borne, Canada-opoly, puzzles and Nintendo Wii. Victors in individual tournaments will win a newly designed Mills International Center T-shirt.
International Education Week was created as a way to introduce students to different cultures.
“The group provides a social gathering place and social gathering time for everyone, even though it seems that it’s only for international students,” said Yoon Soo Nam, a student from Seoul, South Korea and the resource consultant for the Mills International Center. “International means everyone, so the group invites everyone for coffee hour.”
“It’s a warm space,” Adriane Bolliger, program manager for the Mills International Center, said.
Bolliger believes the Mills International Center is the perfect low-stress environment for students looking to hang out and chill. “That’s what this week is about: bringing people into the Mills Center and showing them those things.”
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