Surveys, Surveys, Surveys
What is gratitude?
This has been a huge culture shock for many of you who have never seen this white piece of cold weather before coming to the USA.
What is snow?
This is where you should go to buy coffee, tea and pastries (desserts) directly below the ELC in Monroe Hall.
What is Artesano?
This activity required students to bring in five items of cultural significance to help with adaptability to life in the USA.
What is the Model Backpack?
These waterfalls are located in Western New York and divide the United States from Canada.
What are Niagara Falls?
This scavenger hunt in the first full week of classes, started outside near this famous animal at RIT.
What is a tiger?
Who is "Ritchie" the Bengal tiger?
Due to its common use on campus, this is a place to go to learn and practice ASL (American Sign Language) without using your voice.
What is the No Voice Zone?
This is where you should go when you are not feeling well.
What is the Student Health Center?
This activity requires everyone to stand in two lines and rotate after one round of question and answer.
The city of Ithaca, near Cayuga Lake is home to this Ivy League University.
What is Cornell University?
The final co-reflection of the semester was based on finding this "similarity" between you and your partner.
What is "common ground"?
This model of culture shows how a few obvious cultural differences are above the water line, but most of this is below the water line until you have lived long enough in this culture.
What is the "cultural iceberg"?
This building connects the Wallace Library to Monroe Hall, featuring lots of glass in contrast to the brick buildings that surround it.
What is the SHED?
This activity requires students to think of a word that begins with the same letter for twelve categories.
What is Scattergories?
New York City is the largest city in New York State, but this smaller city is the capital of New York State.
What is Albany?
These surveys were conducted by Sophia by scanning a QR code and providing feedback. Examples include the dance workshops, PPT night and "friends face-off"
What are ELC event surveys?
The president of the United States is known for pardoning (forgiving) this bird that many Americans eat on Thanksgiving Day?
What is the turkey?
This center for helping students succeed with academics in general is considered a neighbor of the ELC by sharing classrooms.
What is the Academic Success Center (ASC)?
This activity and phrase requires children to visit different houses and ask for sweets (candy) on Halloween (October 31).
What is "trick or treat"?
This city in central New York is home to a famous university and some postcards of this place were given out in an earlier class.
What is Syracuse?
A survey conducted when the instructor was absent used these phrases like "get out" and "you can say that again". It's another word for a "slang expression".
What are idioms?
This type of culture shock will occur when you return home and find that you cannot adapt to your way of living in that culture.
What is "reverse culture shock"?
This building is located down the hall from Monroe Hall, has Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, Nathan's Soups and features flags from many different nations hanging from above
What is the SAU (Student Alumni Union)?
This "cross-word" activity refers to a word written across or down like ("gratitude" or "adaptability"), and filling in words around it to define it.
What is an acrostic word poem?
In Western New York, many farms sell this type of fruit when it is in season.
What are apples?