Foreign students stay here for holidays
By Tonnie Dakin
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For most University students.
(Christmas is a time to travel
home and he with family and
friends. For foreign students,
who often are unable to go
home for the holidays, there are
other options available.
Most foreign students stay in
the United States during
Christmas break, said Margo
Ramsing, a University foreign
student adviser. There are pro
grams set up with networks all
over the United States that
allow foreign students not only
to spend Christmas with a host
family but to travel to other
parts of America while doing it.
she said.
Most often students pay tor
their own transportation to and
from their host family's city, but
once arrived, they are hosted by
the community. Ramsing said.
There are also church groups
that cater to foreign students
and place them with host
families around the country,
she said.
Students who wish to stay in
Eugene may be able to spend
the holidays with their “friend
ship family." Ramsing said.
“A friendship family is just
what it says, they volunteer to
be a friend to the foreign stu
dent. and sometimes they will
invite the student to spend time
with them at Christmas.” she
said.
For some foreign students.
Christmas is a religious holiday,
but for others it is simply a
break from school, she said.
“To most Europeans, the
holidays complement ours.”
Ramsing said. “But when you
talk about Asian and Eastern
countries, they may not have
the same feelings about the holi
day that Americans do.”
At the International House, a
cooperative living situation for
foreign students, none of the
students are planning to go
home for Christmas, said
Hiroshi lnoue, president of the
house and a graduate student in
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The house, located at 560 E.
11th Ave.. is owned by a church
and most of the students living
there are Christians, lnoue said.
To celebrate the holiday the
students will decorate the
house, go Christmas caroling
and have a Christmas party, he
said.
"We’re trying to follow the
American example of
Christmas." lnoue said.
Many of the 14 students liv
ing at the house plan to travel or
visit friends, he added.
Tausif Kahn, a senior
economics major from Pakistan,
did not go home for Christmas
last year, he said. Instead, he
traveled to San Francisco with
some friends who also were not
leaving the United States, he
said.
Most foreign students who
don’t go home to their native
country do leave Eugene. Kahn
said.
"If I stayed here I think it
might bother me because all of
my friends who I hang out with
would have left." he said
This year. Kahn plans to
travel to Seattle or Vancouver
because "it's just like a holiday
off." he said.
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