[nabs-l] international students

Sun Nov 30 01:03:30 UTC 2014

Dear Elif and all,

This seems to be a great idea! I am from India too and faced many
challenges post-arrival in USA. We could  surely plan a conference!
Sincerely
Siddhi

On 11/30/14, Miso Kwak via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Elif and all,
> Joining the party a bit late, but I am also interested in advocating
> for and helping out international students in the U.S.
> I am Miso, a sophomore attending University of California Los Angeles,
> majoring in psychology and minoring in disability studies and
> education. I am originally from South Korea and have been in the U.S.
> for about 7 years now.
> Please feel free to email me off list and I agree with Kartik that
> conference may be a good idea.
> Best,
> Miso
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kartik Sawhney via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> To: Elif Emir <filerime at gmail.com>; National Association of Blind
> Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 8:11 pm
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] international students
>
> Hey Elif,
>
> I'm Kartik. I'm a sophomore at Stanford University studying Computer
> Science. I'm from India. I've been thinking on similar lines for quite
> sometime now, and I think it'll be awesome to chat more about it to
> see what we can do together. Same goes for anyone (international or
> not) who is interested. Let's plan a conference to discuss this
> further.
>
> In the meanwhile, Elif, feel free to reach out, or share your contact
> details.
>
> Best,
>
> On 11/11/14, Elif Emir via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Well I admit that I got more accommodation's here than I had back in
>> Turkey in terms of the accessible course materials. This is wonderful.
>> The problem is being lack of social support which can be a back up
>> when there is no accommodation.
>> Plus this is a huge culture shock.
>> In this situation it is very hard to locate in a new country, lern how
>> and where to do shopping, find a way for transportation, how to call
>> for a cab, learn the naberhood and campus to navegate independently,
>> discover the food, brands, health system, learn how to recognize
>> dollar bills and coin, write a check, so and so.
>> an international student has to figure all these out very shortly in
>> order to survive. Blindness and language make this harder. So some
>> daily living assistance at the beginning would be very cool.
>> Anyway, if there is any international students here please reach me.
>> We can advocate for future generations together.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-11-11 0:29 GMT-05:00, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is definitely dialog which should happen.  I think that domestic
>>> students also have a lot to learn from international students, and we
>>> could all benefit from more open communication.
>>>
>>> So, do tell us what you think we could do to help, but also remember
>>> to speak up.  I was totally unaware of the lack of accommodations
>>> available to students who are not U.S citizens until very recently,
>>> and I doubt I'm the only one who isn't very knowledgeable on this.
> If
>>> you have ideas based on what you did for accommodations in your home
>>> country that you think could help students in the U.S, share those
>>> too.
>>>
>>> I think If we're all open and provide helpful suggestions, everyone
>>> will benefit.
>>>
>>> On 11/10/14, zeynep sule yilmaz via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Elif, that's a great topic to talk about here too. I'm asking all
> the
>>>> NABS members. How NABS can support international students better? Is
>>>> there any idea? Most of us had or still have some problems because
> of
>>>> being international student. This may be lack of the information and
>>>> resources that are available to American sitizens with
> disabilities. I
>>>> know that being a strong self-advocate is always what we would like,
>>>> however, we need support from native students sometimes.  I would
> like
>>>> to know, if any of the NABS members have any idea on that.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Zeynep
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014-11-10 13:02 GMT-06:00, Darian Smith via nabs-l
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>   We have an "International Students" E-mail list that can be found
>>>>> among
>>>>> the  collection of list serves  of the NFB at www.nfbnet.org
>>>>> <http://www.nfbnet.org/>.
>>>>>   I'm sure there are international students on the NABS list, but I
>>>>> suspect
>>>>> there are more of them on the International  Students List.
>>>>>    Hope this is helpful to you.
>>>>>   Best,
>>>>>   Darian
>>>>>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Elif Emir via nabs-l
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> My name is Elif.
>>>>>> I'm a graduate student from Turkey.
>>>>>> I'm wondering how many international students are we in this
> group?
>>>>>> Or is there anyone who knows about an international blind student
> who
>>>>>> is not a member of this e-mail group?
>>>>>> Could you contact me from here my personal e-mail to discuss
> about the
>>>>>> accommodation's we have, problems spessific to international
> students
>>>>>> and adjustment issues.
>>>>>> I want to get together online, and talk to each other and support
> each
>>>>>> other about these internationally spessific issues.
>>>>>> Best
>>>>>> Elif Emir Oksuz
>>>>>> filerime at gmail.com
>>>>>>
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