Developing Global Citizens

A Virtual World Tour

Santa Fe College Season 2 Episode 2

Vilma Fuentes talks with Jessica Cassidy, SF's International Education coordinator; Dr. Anna Ageicheva, Dean of Humanities at the National University Poltava Polytechnic in Ukraine; Dr. Regiani Zacarias, professor of English language at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Dr. Marcela Murillo, Spanish and Humanities professor at SF about the innovations that have transpired on international activities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vilma Fuentes 

Welcome to Santa Fe College. My name is Vilma Fuentes, and this is our podcast on developing global citizens. Today we will explore some of the innovations that have transpired on international activities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We're joined by four very special guests: Jessica Cassidy, International Education coordinator at Santa Fe College; Doctor Anna Ageicheva, Dean of Humanities at the National University Poltava Polytechnic in Ukraine; Dr. Regiani Zacarias, professor of English language at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio De Mesquita Fihlo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Doctor Marcela Murillo, Spanish and Humanities professor at Santa Fe College. Ladies thank you all for joining us.

 

Jessica Cassidy

Thank you so much for having us.

 

Anna Ageicheva

*Speaks Ukrainian* 

 

Regiani Zacarias

With the regard to view my own president this acquisitional Lucent affair.

 

 

Marcela Murillo

Muchas Gracias por limitation Feliz the Statica.

 

Vilma Fuentes 

Thank you all. So, Jessica let me begin with you. So, during the first week of March, we at Santa Fe College went on spring break. And when we return COVID-19 had become a full-blown global pandemic. The college opened for a few days and then... It seemed like almost instantly we were asked to shift to 100% virtual operations. What happened to our college’s international education programs? How do we respond to the pandemic?

 Jessica Cassidy

Well, you know when we first found out about the COVID 19 pandemic, which was in you know early spring. We were all kind of like “Oh, it's OK.” It's not going to be that big of a deal right like it's isolated it'll be fine. Then you know, we had our successful spring break study abroad programs and those went off successfully, returned successfully...

 Jessica Cassidy

And then things started to get more serious right. I started discovering reports of like COVID-19 cases spiking in Italy, which is where we were going to have one of our summer Study Abroad programs and I'm like you know this is this is getting serious now and I remember walking into your office, Vilma, and saying “Hey, I think we need to... we need to take a look at this, you know it's getting serious in Italy.” and so we did. And we started monitoring the COVID-19 situation around the world and really in the countries that we were going to have study abroad programs and it just kept getting worse. And so unfortunately, we had to cancel all of our summer 2021 study of our sorry summer 2020 study abroad programs.

 Jessica Cassidy

And you know, not only that, but we also had to cancel our in-person events on campus. And so we had all of these students who were looking forward to engaging and study abroad and in-person activities that no longer could. We also we're going to have faculty exchanges in-person you know, having faculty come here and some of our faculty go to other countries around the world and we couldn't do that either. And so you know when the college went to virtual, we had to somehow figure out a way to do the same. And figure out a way to engage our students engage our faculty and our partner institutions as well.

 Jessica Cassidy

And so, about the same time, we started noticing other organizations like the Study Abroad Association, who we work with for study abroad programs coming up with virtual study abroad tours and you know virtual tours of different places like in Ireland and Scotland and around the world and we're like OK well, maybe we can do something like this with our partners and so that's exactly what we did. You know we contacted our partners in Ukraine, in Brazil, and were able to facilitate a virtual exchange and find a way to engage our students and maintain our goals that we had originally had for in person activities, but now we just had to innovate and go all virtual, and it was successful, and we were able to do that.

Vilma Fuentes

Great thank you. I actually have more questions for you, Jessica, but I think I'm going to come back and instead let me turn to Anna Ageicheva. So, Anna, in late January early February we had the pleasure of hosting you live in person here at Santa Fe College I think you were one of the last international guests we hosted. We got you in right before that pandemic.

 Vilma Fuentes

Then soon afterward, another professor from Brazil that we were delighted to host. But Anna, you gave several public lectures. You visited classes. You met groups of faculty and of students.

Vilma Fuentes

And then you return to Ukraine and within a few weeks, the pandemic exploded. Please describe how your university, and really your country in general was impacted by the pandemic.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Thank you, Vilma really. I was and I am a lucky person because I managed to visit your Santa Fe College and your country. It was my dream and it came true and we really supposed to welcome your professor Dustin Friedkin and you know well that everything was ready from our side, from your side, so we just were...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Expecting him and I'm really happy that next Monday I have an opportunity to listen to his lecture online. Speaking about how our University, National University, Yuri convertible tablet Polytechnic faced the pandemic.

 Anna Ageicheva 

I can tell you the truth. First 2 days, it was like panic. When they were told that we should be online, everything should be online.

 Anna Ageicheva 

From lectures, to tutorials, to meeting 2 important conferences and but only in 2 days. Maybe someone suffered for 3 days. I don't know. It took me 2 days to come down and to find balance.

 Anna Ageicheva 

And I'm in my... I'm at my faculty and we decided that it's not a problem. It's just their way to be safe and you to our efforts. We have the so-called University, the Digital University, and it allows us, it enables us to be online. We didn't stop...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Our learning educating process even for a minute, you see and we finally succeeded with accomplishing...

 Anna Ageicheva 

We have...

 Anna Ageicheva 

first and second semesters so, so we accomplished successfully second semester. We made our admission... I mean, so we welcomed fresh French hearing students for...

 Anna Ageicheva 

And so that's probably...

 Anna Ageicheva 

“Stop” but no I will continue that.

 Anna Ageicheva 

I think that...

 Anna Ageicheva 

sure, face to face learning and learning and educating in person teaching face to face is better but taking into account the situation in Ukraine.

 Anna Ageicheva 

and it's getting worse, unfortunately and no one can say that when we will meet our students face to face but finally, I don't see any problems concerning our educational process, so we are working sure in your conditions. But we learn how to live, teach,

 Anna Ageicheva 

and work online.

 Vilma Fuentes

Now initially when you shifted to virtual instruction, was it difficult to motivate your students to learn?

 Vilma Fuentes

Or to get them interested?

 Anna Ageicheva 

I think you see its first of...

 Anna Ageicheva 

First of all, we try to encourage them, we are social Nets, we are...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Contacting down in different social groups and...

 Anna Ageicheva 

With the help of longer tutors, not only lectures, so we organize different events and even I can tell you that we organize now more events than we do before and than we used before because we should.

 Anna Ageicheva 

I'm sure that we should give them a feeling that we, we need them, we miss them. We love them. And for example. This such a small example yesterday, we had international students here. We have a celebration and organized an event like...

 Anna Ageicheva 

To meet a student at his farm. I prepared some presentations, my students as well. And I welcomed 2 thirds of my faculty. I mean, students and when they were almost crying. We miss you. We love you. We would like to come back to University was so dashing you see.

 Anna Ageicheva 

So this why.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Sure we try to do.

 Vilma Fuentes

I am sure that your University has been...

 Vilma Fuentes

Unique because I fear that not all universities or colleges in your country, were as prepared to shift to virtual operations. In early April, Anna, when you your faculty and students agreed to lead our first virtual world tour to Ukraine.

 Vilma Fuentes

That was a big innovation. I think for both of our institutions. Please describe the process. What did you do? How did you organize that?

 Anna Ageicheva 

First of all it was a brilliant idea from...

 Anna Ageicheva 

An expert in Ukraine of our culture will not friends, then we joined this idea, which has decided that yes, it's really it can be queued. It can be interesting I can tell the truth that there was like a competition. My dear students who would like to participate and there was really competition, not everyone.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Who would like...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Had a possibility to join so there was a competition for their project.

 Anna Ageicheva 

And then we decided to join that and I think the project was really successful and even not once but it is.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Because after our tour there were next country and we are, we all really waiting for...

 Anna Ageicheva 

So it should it should be continued. I definitely because it makes us closer, it makes us feel that we really need each other. So that's why...

 Vilma Fuentes

I think it was a great example of a group-based project like project-based learning in a virtual environment, right? Your students took us, let's see if I remember correctly, they took us to Kyiv your capital, to Odesa too of course, Poltava, to Lviv in the West right they literally took us on a world tour.

 Vilma Fuentes

And I think we had like 150 students that came and joined from... some from your country, from our country, and then there’s Regiani from Brazil. Because I reached out to you and said wow you should check this out.

 Vilma Fuentes

Regiani, so what did your students think about this world tour, virtual world tour, to Ukraine?

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

It was wonderful we were all very excited. So, when you when you contacted me and you said, “Hey, you should check this out. Listen this is what I have in mind, and I invited you with Anna and she's working on her...” and I was like wow, let's see what's happening and...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

That definitely gave some light...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

To me and to my students, you know to start something online. The Virtual World Tour in the Ukraine was fantastic, thank you Anna. You and your students did a marvelous job and it was, it was really good to see and to know about the architecture.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

And you know they went deep...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Into the tour. It was not superficial at all. It was good, good information so...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Thank you. Thank you for...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Some good words and I would like to tell you that my students all the time ask, when will be the next?

 Vilma Fuentes

We're working on it, it's coming.

 Anna Ageicheva 

II told them as well, you should just be patient.

 Vilma Fuentes

It’s coming.

 Anna Ageicheva 

I found it.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Out on its way to us right.

 Vilma Fuentes

So, I'll ask you for now, one last question Anna. if I'm not mistaken at your University, you’re training several students not only to be to be English interpreters and then some of them to go and work in the tourism sector in your country. Do you think that this virtual world tour helped them prepare for future jobs in this field?

 Anna Ageicheva 

Sure, it's really useful because...

 Anna Ageicheva 

It gives them understanding of...

 Anna Ageicheva 

Other countries cultural aspects, traditions, and style of life. So that's why it's exactly what they need. I think I'm sure even.

 Vilma Fuentes

Great thank you so much. Regiani, I'm going to go back to you. So, you first came to Santa Fe College in 2011 as a Fulbright scholar in residence.

 Vilma Fuentes

And you've maintained a strong relationship of our institution since your return to Brazil. I know you were also very much challenged by the pandemic. Please tell us how? How did your University respond to the pandemic in Brazil? How were you specifically and your students impacted by this, and how are you able to provide your instruction?

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Yes, well. Thank you, it was a great pleasure. My year at Santa Fe was about the best time of my life and I am very glad we keep this partnership going with a different projects and different kind of interactions and the activities.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Well, when the pandemic...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

started we... my University you know immediately interrupted classes, so classes were suspended. We didn't know for how long, nobody knew what to do everybody thought we would die if we...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Went to the supermarket.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

If we spread this virus around.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

So you know it was very uncertain what was happening, you know just like everyone.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

The point is that slowly, um, many universities and all the school basic education system. They switch it to the virtual world. You know, not easy days because people have difficulty with...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Switching. Professors, students, everybody was really struggling by this sudden change in the way they used to do things and they used.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

To carry on their routine well one took a long time. My University took a long time to decide what to do so we did not switch immediately to the virtual world really well. We are a multi-campus University so we, we have 34...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

 different campuses. Most of them slowly came back to the switch it to the virtual world.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

But not my campus. My campus... many students and many professors they totally denied, and they did not want to go online. And I can tell you why. The NSP University is supposed to reach out.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

For students all over the state of some problem mainly less privileged students.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

That most of those students did not have Internet access, you know at hand. So, going back to classes on the virtual world that meant that they could not attend classes at all.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

So, it was a big issue come... going back.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

To virtual, not going back neutral. Some students wanted, some professors wanted, some professors did not. Well in the middle of this.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Hurricane came your proposal.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

I mean? What about doing something online. You know, and I tell you I was like “Oh my God should I invite my students?”

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Am I going

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

To exclude those students who do not have access...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

To the Internet? And then I can tell...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

you that I went to the...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

To my director and I told him what was happening.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

And I asked him permission to go and propose the activity for my students because I did not want people to think I was you know, I was not following the group you know by doing something online.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Well, everybody was OK with the idea and then I invited the students and they were so committed and they were so happy to work.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

So, I that was the very first time during the pandemic that my students and I had the opportunity to be online on a joint project. So, thank you very much that the scenario was really not favored to anything like that.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

And it worked so well.

 Vilma Fuentes

And Anna, the way you were mentioning that your students there was a competition going on, I think the...

 Vilma Fuentes

Competition became like a multi-country competition because the Brazilian students were like, “Wow! Did you see what the Ukrainians did?” and...

 Vilma Fuentes

Some of her students there's 1 in particular that stands out to me, it was a group of them that wanted to tell the world about Brazilian music. They decided to create a video right. It was like a video taking you to different parts of Brazil and showing how the music there changed so that was just phenomenal right. It was showing their technological skills and their musical skills all at once.

 

Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Yes, that that was that was exactly what happened. All of a sudden you know they found their gifts for technology.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Regiani and you are teaching your students, so all your students are in different levels of English courses. Were they nervous doing this in like I know...

 Anna Ageicheva 

100% of virtual and 100% English format?

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Totally, because it was you know first of all it was the very first time they had not had classes. They had not had any kind of interaction and all of a sudden they were presenting to the US to recreate the Ukraine to the US so that that was really...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

It made them very nervous, so we...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Had to rehearse. So, remember I had some students who did not know how to share their screen and you know, we had those minor problems to deal with because the students were not familiar with the technology and in speaking English, you know, so that was very fun...

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

That was nice.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Jessica let me return to you for a second. So from your perspective. What are some of the challenges and also some of the opportunities or benefits of shifting to virtual activities?

 Jessica Cassidy 

Well, I'll start with the benefits. I think... I think switching to virtual has provided a wonderful opportunity for access that we didn't have before for our students. So now our students who couldn't participate in study abroad, who couldn't necessarily come to campus and participate in our in-person events because they had to drive, or they had to work.

 Jessica Cassidy 

Now could through these virtual activities. Now they could you know Zoom with us...

 Jessica Cassidy 

From anywhere you know, or you know ask us for the recordings later if they wanted to still be a part of our international activity. So you know that's been the main benefit. I would say from going virtual. These innovations and this ability to offer access to these students with some of the challenges, I think that our students are in a tough...

 Jessica Cassidy 

placeright now right? Like they have financial concerns. They're just concerned about putting food on the table. They have to work more, they have to figure out how to do all their online classes and it.

 Jessica Cassidy 

It’s tough right? So are they thinking about international opportunities are they motivated to attend our events and and sometimes I think you know, maybe they're not and and rightly so 'cause. They have all these legitimate concerns. So I think that's been a challenge. But there are students who do participate in our programs and are happy to do so and are still engaging with us so.

 Jessica Cassidy 

You know, I would say those are the main things in terms of benefits and challenges.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Excellent thank you. So on that note, I'm going to turn...

 Anna Ageicheva 

to Marcella. Marcela Murillo, so talk to us from a faculty perspective here at Santa Fe, so in the spring, you also had to shift to 100% virtual. You know, we've just heard what happened in Ukraine and in Brazil. Tell us your experience and your students experience like? How was that transition to 100% virtual?

 Anna Ageicheva 

What challenges are you facing especially with foreign language instruction?

 Vilma Fuentes

Well let me tell you that the...

 Vilma Fuentes

Biggest changes in spring I was teaching a class language class, I did was 4 times a week. We will meet Monday to Thursday and the announcement that we got to change to shift everything to virtual was... I believe it was on a Friday, if I'm not mistaken, and Monday we had class and I worked the entire weekend. We had workshop on how to use zoom and...

 Vilma Fuentes

There were there were operations during the weekend during that weekend to plan for the shift.

 Vilma Fuentes

For the shift and we did, and Monday, we had our virtual classes, so the students did not miss one single class but let me tell you that at the beginning there was a little bit difficulty. You know to teach in a different modality. You know to teach everything in teams. That's why with the platform that I use there was a sense of....

 Vilma Fuentes

uncertainty you know. We're under this pandemic and this invisible virus is killing off people so students are on faculty also it's hard to focus.

 Vilma Fuentes

Start to focus you know think of you know how to conjugate their present verbs when you have these big problems.

 Vilma Fuentes

But students were somehow motivated because of the novelty of being everything online and after the first week. There was a sense of stability and there's going to be an end of the semester and there's going to be crazy to be turned in so we so it was a difficult semester, but we overcame it and...

 Vilma Fuentes

I hope that they did learn how to conjugate the present.

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 Anna Ageicheva 

OK, now with the virtual world tours. You joined I distinctly remember that, you joined the virtual world tour to Brazil. I'm not sure if you joined the one to Ukraine.

 Vilma Fuentes

Yes, I did that my students did, too. And they ask questions in the Ukraine, one because I remember the food yes.

 Vilma Fuentes

Yes, and well those experiences were great for my students II offer I invited my students too.

 Vilma Fuentes

To join both world tours and this gave me an idea, you know, I maybe you don't know audience. But I am from Bolivia and I said Ukraine, Brazil. I think something's missing there and that something is Bolivia and I have connections. My my well II'm from there.

 Vilma Fuentes

My father is a full time professor.

 Vilma Fuentes

As well and then that's how.

 Vilma Fuentes

Where I'm sorry oh?

 Vilma Fuentes

University of my Jordison Undress Universal Meireles and resumes which is the second largest University in Bolivia.

 Vilma Fuentes

And well II thought it would be a great opportunity to bridge Bolivian University, which so far. Santa Fe does not have any official partnership with.

 Vilma Fuentes

Do that introduction.

 Anna Ageicheva 

So I think one of the really unique things. Marcela I thank you very much for is in the midst of a pandemic in the midst of the chaos.

 Anna Ageicheva 

And uncertainty you were helping us start a brand new international relationship of another University is that even possible yes marcella did it.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Thank you and we were following her right the.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Lead the way marcella.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Because with the case of our Ukrainian partners and Brazilian partners. We already had an international cooperation agreement in place. We had had face to face exchanges we had had other activities.

 Anna Ageicheva 

So was it difficult getting this off the ground. This new partnership was it hard to convince professors or students in Bolivia that they should try something totally knew that they had never seen or heard before.

 Vilma Fuentes

Oil.

 Vilma Fuentes

It was troublesome because Olivia, was also when is the IT was a very complex time value? We were having a transitory government?

 Vilma Fuentes

So there was all besides there being a health concern with the pandemic. There's also this political admissibility. So it was a troublesome moment. But I think it worked as a as a way to escape as a way to escape the mind from the students of what they were living and you know think of a project or talking to other country in to an audience that's in the USA.

 Vilma Fuentes

So II think it worked as a ball bouillabaisse copy.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Write an escape valve.

 Vilma Fuentes

Of escape well? Yes.

 Anna Ageicheva 

We're learning foreign languages here too. I love it.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Excellent so tell us about that experience because you're still well. The Bolivian students took what the Brazilians did and then took it to another level 'cause. They also had video that I was like wow, so impressed about what did they do describe it. Please Oh well.

 Vilma Fuentes

So they worked also like Ukraine in Brazil in project based groups that professor was the leader and the students worked on 2 videos. One was to present the life of a student during the pandemic. So it was marvelous to see how do the students will wake up put on the mask and take public transportation an be sprayed with alcohol?

 Vilma Fuentes

Before getting on it, and you know show how things are going.

 Vilma Fuentes

And the other video was to was to talk about the University and then they would show us around the University.

 Vilma Fuentes

So.

 Anna Ageicheva 

It so it was incredibly impressive because I think for me from my perspective. It was really eye. Opening just a life and the A day in the life of a student in and uh.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Your country like wow. I just had never seen that before so maybe with our next virtual tours. We can explore some of that. But before we talk about the next virtual tours. I want to ask all of you all 3 so all 3 of you have something very big in common you all teach students foreign languages. So I'm curious do you think these virtual world tours help your students?

 Anna Ageicheva 

Learn a foreign language number one and did they help them become better global citizens.

 Anna Ageicheva 

I'll ask him Johnny first.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

OK, yeah, well.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Well, I'm very glad to answer that.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

You know for a while, I have been working.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

On the approach.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Of EMI which is English as a medium of instruction and also clue which is content, and language integrated learning and based on those the pro.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Codes um students they will get if they get more involved with a topic that is, of their interest and then they use the language to talk to learn and to talk about that topic that is going to be very helpful in their linguistic development.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

And that's gonna learn acquire some linguistic competence and proficiency.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

So remember that when you invited us I said, you might can I tell students they can.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Choose a topic.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Because I really wanted to do this on this perspective, that students were going to say something about our country. But something that from their hearts. You know from from that, they like so some students picked music others other group.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Picked literature remember they spoke about literature. We had somebody speaking about CD too. And that was very, very helpful. You have no idea how many times, I had to listen and correct them before they?

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

You know presented themselves live during the show so it certainly helped them right.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Because they first wrote a script then it help them with pronunciation. Individual word pronunciation. And then discourse pronunciation. And it also helped them with the natural flow of the language you know 'cause they could not speak.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Like a robot they had to be natural so that was really helpful that was fantastic and.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Great Sir certainly helped they are the question.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Well let me turn to on and maybe she could answer that so uh So what I was asking is whether these virtual world tours help your students become better global citizens and perfect their English language skills.

 Jessica Cassidy

Then I will start from the second question, and I can tell you exactly that it.

 Jessica Cassidy

Are we we aren't give?

 Jessica Cassidy

Understanding for our student they are really they are citizens of the world.

 Jessica Cassidy

And it was like a bridge between cultures between our countries is it only to read a book about US that's not.

 Jessica Cassidy

What they need are only to read a grammar textbook there's not but there's a live in communication this possibility that they really learn.

 Jessica Cassidy

English and they can use it.

 Jessica Cassidy

And I personally teach is.

 Jessica Cassidy

The students and I teach philology students and they can tell you that.

 Jessica Cassidy

They really like that idea they really like that, they had even being on line. The heading opportunity to communicate with foreigners to talk to native speakers to listen to other students presentations to compare and to both share our culture because we're really proud to be Ukrainians and we're really glad to share.

 Jessica Cassidy

The insights of our country.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Myrcella and you what about our Santa Fe students do you think it helped them become better global citizens or learn Spanish better?

 Vilma Fuentes

Well, I think that the biggest impact on my students was the possibility to connect to an international audience. An AP and international period during a crisis moment.

 Vilma Fuentes

I think that the fact that they were able to see how a student in Poltava looks like. What are Brazilian student eats an? What oblivion student does in order to get to school creates in them and make this?

 Vilma Fuentes

Periods makes a creates them empathy makes them You know being build a sense of international of intercultural competence and realize that we're all in this pandemic together in all of our different corners of the Earth.

 Anna Ageicheva 

So II think it was on uh that asked and where are we going to next? Well, we're working on it first of all I know that we owe you our friends uh World Tour of the US we?

 Anna Ageicheva 

Started discussions of that, so hopefully we will be able to offer that to you in the spring and one professor in particular is taking the lead to maybe introduce us to the Florida park system. But aside from that I've also been in conversations with colleagues in Argentina, an in Egypt to see if they might take us on our world tour to their countries.

 Anna Ageicheva 

In the spring, so we may just have started something cool that I'm hoping that we will be able to continue even after we return to face to face classes.

 Anna Ageicheva 

But I also want to highlight that this didn't just end with the world tour on a geni. You've now started connecting as linguist as professors and foreign languages, and working together on international conferences right and all this.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Yeah, that's true so you are not the only one who made contact with another University.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

There is this.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

And then X situation and I&I.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

We are so involved.

 Dr. Regiani Zacarias

Because we have you know we have the same. We are in the same area of knowledge right. Anna it has been such a great pleasure.

 Jessica Cassidy

Yeah, the same to me is it.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Excellent so I think what I want.

 Jessica Cassidy

Yes, we have so a lot of ideas.

 Jessica Cassidy

Steal it had.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Yes, well, I think I want to thank you. All for partnering with us during this pandemic trying out something new, something in.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Wait and see where it will take us. I'm curious to see where else we will travel together. What other new projects. We will undertake but above all else. I think we've been able to show our students or appears that it is possible to promote internationalization. It is possible to help create global citizens.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Even in the midst of a pandemic.

 Anna Ageicheva 

So thank you all for your time shadowjack, we'll multiply gada in Muchisimas Gracias Marcella for your time.

 Anna Ageicheva 

Bye.