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Welcome back

Hello dear fellow students!!

First of all: happy new year and welcome back!! I hope everyone had a great winter break and got their batteries recharged for yet another exciting semester. The ISC will open again Monday at 12.00 as usual. This semester we have changed our ticket selling times to 5-7pm on Mondays. Hopefully this will mean no one will find themselves unable to get tickets because they have to attend lectures at the ticket selling times.

The scheduled trips can be found on this very blog - just have a look further down!

International pub night at Bannermans is on again as well, I hope to see a lot of you there on Tuesday (9 pm and onwards) for a great reunion night!

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Due to a fair amount of people leaving or deciding not to continue, we are short of volunteers. Thus we will be having a new volunteers session on Thursday after the usual coffee evening. So if you would like to volunteer or know anyone else who would, please come along to the ISC lounge on Thursday at 6 pm (or before)

Last years end-of-term volunteer party!!

I hope everyone has a great semester and look forward to seeing you around the lounge!

-Jonathan

ISC Clothes Sale [Monday 14/12, 12-4pm @ the ISC Lounge]

[source - pomeroi.co.uk]

The ISC clothing has finally arrived - pause your revision routine and grab a [heavily-subsidized] ISC polo, T-shirt or hoodie [with/without zip] before they are all gone for good!

T-shirts - £5 each

Polo shirts - £8 each

Hoodies - £12 each

Full zip hoodies - £15 each

+ a box with discounted bits 'n' pieces [50% off]

All of these come with an embroidered University of Edinburgh logo and are much cheaper than any UoE clothing that is on sale at the EUSA shop...

[Facebook event here]

Semester 1 Feedback

We constantly strive to make your semester/year/four/five years at the University of Edinburgh as enjoyable as possible and are therefore greatly interested in what you think about our activities.

If there is anything you would like to comment on [positives and/or negatives of ISC Events, Lounge, Trips, activities that you would like us to organize, or general comments], please  voice your opinion by sending us an email to iscedi[at]gmail[dot]com [Subject - "Feedback"] or use the "Disqus" feature below.

Your remarks will be highly appreciated!

New Lounge Opening Hours from Monday onwards [02/11]

In order to make our trips & events ticket sales much smoother and reduce your waiting time we are changing the opening time of our Lounge to 12.15pm on Mondays only - with immediate effect.

Please bear in mind that next Saturday the long-awaited & fully sold out ISC Weekend Trip is taking place - hence no Trips tickets go on sale on Monday.

Wanted [Dead Or Alive] - Photos from French Night, Culzean Castle Trip & Danish Night!

If any of you happens to have some photos from:

• the French Night
• the Culzean Castle trip
• the Danish Night

please do not hesitate and share them with others via our blog/photo sharing service!

It is very simple - just click here to learn how!

ISC Blog Poster - Photos

How to upload YOUR photos to OUR Picasa Web Album?

It is dead simple - all you need to do is to send an email with your photos attached [as *.jpg, no *.zip please!] to:

Please note that the attachment size cannot exceed 20MB - so please decrease the size of your photos before sending them!

And do not forget to include your name - so we can attribute your photos to their rightful owner[/s - i.e. you]!

Do you not know how to resize your photos? It is very simple:

1.) Download IrfanView [100% free software that does not contain any viruses/spyware/malware/nasty stuff - works with every MS Windows]

2.) Watch this tutorial - it explains how to resize photos in IrfanView [and does so very well indeed!]

3.) Convert your photos - max. width/height [whichever is greater] 1024 pixels

4.) Email your photos to the above mentioned address

5.) That's it - well done!

[6.) Wait for your photos to be published]

Welcome from President

Dear all,
 

welcome to the International Student Centre and welcome to Edinburgh! Here at the ISC we would like to provide a platform for both international and UK students to meet people and make friends from all around the world as well as brighten up that before, between and after lectures routine in our relaxing environment. We are open every day during the Freshers Week from 11am to 4pm [and 6pm on Thursday] - I would like to encourage all of you to
drop by, enjoy a free cup of tea or coffee and experience what we have to offer.

As the year starts we are looking for volunteers, who would like to spend an hour (or more) a week staffing our Lounge, arranging events or helping out with the planning of our weekly trips. Volunteering is a great opportunity to get to meet people as you will be the first point of contact; it is a perfect way to become a part of a truly international network and all in all a very rewarding experience. Your participation and help are absolutely crucial for our success - volunteering is a win-win situation!

I look forward to seeing many new faces in the ISC during the coming week, and indeed the coming semester and beyond. I hope that all of you will at least stop by once and feel the atmosphere of our lounge. If you have any questions, or if you want to help out, please do not hesitate to approach one of the committee members that will be present at our Lounge.

Good luck to all of you in your studies as well as in any other endeavour you may undertake while here in Edinburgh.

Sincerely yours,

Jonathan Riise