THE INFORMER PAGE 4 JANUARY 28, 1992 Cap Students go to Japan continued from page 3 ticket and travel. Each student receives travel expenses, tuition, and is placed with a Japanese family while they attend the college. Kahlyn Daniel, a first year Sciences student, is excited about returning to the country she visited briefly on an elementary school tour in 1985. This time she’s preparing by studying Japanese at the Canadian International College, and she looks forward to a more prolonged experience of the culture. Kahlyn plans to come back to Cap for another year before going on to SFU or UVic to complete her B.Sc. She would like to be a Biology teacher. Anita Rathje is a second year Studio Art and Crea- tive Writing student who plans to continue in Creative Writing at UVic or UBC when she returns. Her interest in Japan comes out of an impressive amount of experi- ence in working with Japanese people. It began in Grade 10 when she tutored a Japanese exchange stu- dent in ESL, and was heightened by a one-month visit to Japan the next year. “Except for the crowds, I love the country. It’s really beautiful,” she says. Anita fur- thered her knowledge of the culture in the next year when another Japanese student stayed in her home. She is currently working at the Canadian International College as a lab monitor and is busily studying the language with a tutor. Yara Ainsworth is in the second year of the UBC Bachelor of Commerce Transfer Program. She says her interest in the program is supported by a family history of travel. (They have lived in South America, Toronto, and France and have taken driving trips to Mexico.) She says she took a Political Science course in Japan and China, and has been studying Japanese language this year. Photos - Wed. Feb. 5 ‘Avticlos: Mon. Feb.10 Japanese Students at Cap continued from page 3 their first term, studying English and academic courses. Also, there are two students at Cap who came on the exchange four years ago, and one former exchanger is now studying English at UBC. This month, one of the 1988 visitors, Yumi Kawakami, who intended to stay for one term, returned to Japan to graduate. Nick says the students tell him they enjoy the mul- ticultural aspect of Cap’s campus. “They are instantly accepted,” he reports. The setting is also a big hit. Aichi is the size of the Sub Building at UBC, he says, and it has about three trees. Another attraction for the Japanese students is that Cap goes out of its way to make them feel welcome. In Japan when young women reach the age of 20, they are given a kimono. Here, Doug Jardine gave them a lunch and presented them with sweatshirts. “Doug spent 40 minutes with them,” says Nick. "That sort of attention is very important to them.” This spring the exchange may spread to include faculty (there is a proposed P.D. exchange in May). In the fall Doug Jardine and Marlene Fry will travel to Japan to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the relation- ship. Association Moves The North Shore Association of Physically Handi- capped, which gets lots of mail from the College, has changed its address to: Suite 100-140 West 15th Ave., North Vancouver V7M 1R6 OTEU Christmas Food Bank Collection 13 boxes of food were kindly donated by staff, stu- dents and instructors at the College. Special thanks to Karen Waugh for organizing the boxes. Your contribu- tions made a difference to some less fortunate than ourselves. — Mick Maguire Time Running Out for This Round of Grant Applications Faculty interested in applying for a grant (to help them attend a conference or engage in a research activity) may submit an application by Feb. 7, 1992 to Ruth D’Hollander, Faculty Development Liaison. For further information, contact Ruth at loc. 2919. There will be another application date in April.