2009 ACSSY Mentor Recruiting

Dear All,

ACSSY has a mentor/mentee program where current Chinese students or post-docs can volunteer to serve as guiders or "mentors" to incoming Chinese students or scholars. The purpose for this program is to help new comers to get acquainted with the new environment smoothly.

Most of you, especially for students, are benefit from this program when you were first here or even since you had not been here yet. The 09 new students are coming. It's now the time that you do something in return of the help you got from your mentor! Please go to our website: http://www.acssy.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,194/ to fill the mentor form to join this program! It will be a lot of fun to know a new student and lead them for whatever you have been through.

There isn't much work to do: Mentors are just expected to answer questions that the new students/scholars have about Yale or New Haven before they come, to teach them valuable living skills such as where to buy food and clothes, how to get a driver's license, how to open a bank account, and to take them for grocery shopping during the first weeks they get here. Mentors are NOT expected to provide new students/scholars with a place to live or to pick them up from the airport.

After we match a mentor/mentee pair, we will send emails to both of them so that they can start communicating with each other during the summer. It is up the mentor/mentee when and where to meet after the students/scholars arrive at Yale.

Don't hesitate! Join the program and have fun!
http://www.acssy.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,194/

Cheers,
ACSSY Board 09-10
June-23-2009