{"id":48271,"date":"2017-12-05T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48271"},"modified":"2017-12-05T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:07:03","slug":"international-students-get-a-taste-of-local-holiday-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/12\/international-students-get-a-taste-of-local-holiday-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"International students get a taste of local holiday traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mackenzie Chown Complex was merry and bright Saturday afternoon, as Christmas music and gleeful students filled Pond Inlet for Brock International\u2019s annual Holiday Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 70 domestic and international students attended the event and participated in a number of North American holiday traditions Dec. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attendees indulged in delectable holiday treats and played holiday-themed trivia inspired by customs from around the world relating to history, food and music.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48277\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48277\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-48277\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Brock-International-holiday-party-2-1-1050x775.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"267\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-48277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock University Exchange students Helena Klein from Sweden, Kati Maekelae from Finland, Kang Dae Ho from South Korea, Yu Yoshioka from Japan, Choi Chang Woo from South Korea and Erina Imanishi from Japan won the gingerbread house building competition with their design titled Dr\u00f6mhuset.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the day\u2019s highlights was a gingerbread house building competition. The winning team was a reflection of Brock\u2019s international community, with students from Japan, Finland, South Korea and Sweden joining forces to take the top prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helena Klein, an exchange student from Sweden who was on the winning team, explained that her group\u2019s design, titled Dr\u00f6mhuset, was Swedish for \u2018dream house.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event provided an opportunity for students to meet new people and interact with friends they\u2019ve made over the semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany students are experiencing North American holiday traditions for the first time at Brock,\u201d said Sandra Gruosso, interim Associate Director of Brock International Services. \u201cProviding them with such a positive memory to take home is something we take great pride in doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event also included a free ticket to the highly anticipated Brock men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball doubleheader at the Meridian Centre that same evening in downtown St. Catharines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mackenzie Chown Complex was merry and bright Saturday afternoon, as Christmas music and gleeful students filled Pond Inlet for Brock International\u2019s annual Holiday Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":48279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[256,159,4437,4697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48278,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48271\/revisions\/48278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}