{"id":342,"date":"2010-03-10T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:42:30","slug":"the-house-of-switzerland-working-and-studying-at-lsi-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2010\/03\/the-house-of-switzerland-working-and-studying-at-lsi-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of Switzerland &#8211; Working and studying at LSI Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Anita_forBlog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-343\" title=\"Anita_forBlog\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Anita_forBlog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>My name is Anita Kropf and I\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Learn english at language studies international - our english schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/english\/language\" target=\"_blank\">studied English<\/a>\u00a0at LSI Vancouver. The day I arrived in Vancouver I had no idea what to expect of the adventure I was about to start. From September to December 2009 I worked every morning in the Swiss Consulate General and in the afternoon I studied at Language Studies International (LSI) . <a title=\"Language studies international home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">LSI<\/a> is such a nice place with so many friendly people! This was a big opportunity for me to\u00a0make some really good friends, to have fun and to improve my English. I really loved the mix between school and work.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving LSI I\u00a0 worked full time at the <a title=\"The house of switzerland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofswitzerland.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;House of Switzerland in Canada&#8217; <\/a>, the official Swiss guest centre set up in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. It was a lot of hard work, not enough sleep, but I met some very interesting people (including athletes),and went to many parties \u2026 O my god, it was an amazing experience and I shall never forget those days! The House of Switzerland in Canada was a great success as you can see from the numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 60,000 guests<\/li>\n<li>4 tonnes of cheeses from Switzerland and 2 tonnes of Lindt chocolate consumed<\/li>\n<li>1,700 facebook fans, 580 Twitter followers<\/li>\n<li>8 medal celebrations (6 Gold, 2 Bronze)- including Simon Ammann who won the first Gold medal of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games<\/li>\n<li>Anticipated to raise $10,000 Canadian dollars for Streetohome, a Vancouver-based charity, including a sizeable cash donation from Lindt<\/li>\n<li>36,000 Swiss pins given-away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will never forget the time in Canada and would love to thank everybody who was somehow involved in this great experience! Thank you too to <a title=\"Language studies international school in vancouver canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsi.edu\/en\/english\/canada\/vancouver\/school\" target=\"_blank\">LSI Vancouver<\/a>\u00a0who gave me the confidence with my language skills to take on this challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Anita Kropf and I\u00a0\u00a0studied English\u00a0at LSI Vancouver. The day I arrived in Vancouver I had no idea&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,49],"tags":[31,66],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","category-lsi-news","tag-canada","tag-lsi-vancouver","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}