The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 5 | No. 24 | Cagayan de Oro City | January 22-28, 2018
Apply now for CDO-Norfolk High School Student Summer Exchange Program T By Imma Rae D. Gatuslao
he City Government is now accepting applications for the first Cagayan de Oro-Norfolk High School Student Summer Visitor Exchange Program which will have its initial run on July 1-15, 2018 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Deadline for submission of applications is Thursday, February 15, 2018. The student exchange program is an initiative of the sister cities relations of Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines and Norfolk City, Virginia, USA. It is aimed at bringing the youth from both cities closer together in a brief yet rich summer program that promotes cultural awareness, and intercultural understanding. The high school students will stay with “host siblings” who would allow them to experience family life in an American setting, hone their interpersonal skills, and cultivate lifelong friendships. The first visit will come from Cagayan de Oro. For our students, the Norfolk Sister City Association has prepared an itinerary which will enable delegates opportunities to appreciate a new culture as well as our very own
on a fresher and deeper level. The delegation will visit parks, monuments, museums, and historical and cultural sites like the Norfolk Naval Station, considered the largest naval base in the world, and The Mermaid Shop, where they will have a handson experience creating their own version of the Norfolk Visitors Bureau’s mermaid icon. A visit to the Philippine Embassy Washington, D.C. will also be included. For this first run, the program will have six participants. Qualified to apply for the program are high school students in any public or private school in Cagayan de Oro, who have not yet graduated from high school; not below 15 years of age and above 18 years old during the program; must have good communication skills, and whose verbal English capability is intermediate or above average; must be mature program/PAGE 7
The Oro delegation to the 1st CDO-Norfolk Adult Exchange Program toured the USS Arlington at the Norfolk Naval Station, the world’s biggest naval base. (photo courtesy of the US Navy)
Xavier Ateneo stude among 2018 UP National Writers Workshop fellows A student of Xavier Ateneo’s MA Literature program has been named as one of the 12 writing fellows to the 57th University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop (UPNWW). XU graduate student
and Cagayan de Oro City-based poet Mark Anthony “Ton” Daposala says in an online interview he is glad his manuscript was selected for UP NWW, which will run from April 1 to 8. “I believe this [workshop] will help
me greatly, considering that the panel will be critiquing the whole manuscript. Writing a poem is one thing, but gathering and arranging poems in a book is another — it’s an entirely different beast,” Daposala shares.
Organized by the Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing, the event’s official announcement states that the UP NWW, previously dedicated to helping up-and-coming writers, has been reformatted to writers/PAGE 7
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