{"id":6367,"date":"2024-08-19T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:32:20","slug":"students-from-around-the-world-arrive-at-troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/08\/19\/students-from-around-the-world-arrive-at-troy\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from around the world arrive at TROY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Students from around the world created a melting pot of culture as they arrived for Troy University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/applications-admissions\/admissions-process-requirements\/international-student\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international<\/a> student orientation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many students, this is their first time in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to meet the whole Trojan community, make some friends and explore, explore, explore!\u201d said Natalia Banaskiewicz, an international student from Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yuya Hisamura, an international student from Japan, echoed her excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to International Student Services, TROY is welcoming over 250 new international students this Fall semester. Every student took a different journey to get here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere were some international programs at my university, so I searched it and saw Troy University,\u201d Banaskiewicz said. \u201cI saw a good program that I was very interested in, so I just decided to apply.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?s=International&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>INTERNATIONAL NEWS: <\/strong>See TrojanVision&#8217;s previous international coverage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI had to do a minor,\u201d said Noa Kiekebosch, an international student from the Netherlands. \u201cI was looking at the options and saw the option to go to Troy University. I just thought \u2018why not,\u2019 and I applied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students expressed that above all, the chance for new experiences and friendships is what drew them here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople say that it\u2019s some kind of different world, so I definitely wanted to experience that and broaden my cultural horizons,\u201d Banaskiewicz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bente Somsen is an international student from the Netherlands. She is excited for campus events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou really get the American school experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some students stay for just a semester, while others stay for a year or longer. Either way, many say they want to make the most out of their time at TROY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University boasts many international clubs and organizational students can be a part of. Some include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TroyISCO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Student Cultural Organization<\/a> (ISCO), Chinese Culture Club, Spanish Club, Japan Club and Afro-Dance Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Students from around the world created a melting pot of culture as they arrived for Troy University&#8217;s international student orientation. <\/p>\n<p>For many students, this is their first time in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to meet the whole Trojan community, make some friends and explore, explore, explore!\u201d said Natalia Banaskiewicz, an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/08\/19\/students-from-around-the-world-arrive-at-troy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[571],"topics":[12,17],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-international","topics-international","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}