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Hot News at U in the USA …
Monday, October 12th, 2009Hi Everybody,
We hope you had a great Week-end, and you are all enjoying your time in Los Angeles.
Once again, we thank all our fans who participated in our last events and sent us precious comments and suggestions.
We listened to you, and we are happy to share with you some great news.
1. We are now giving you the opportunity to have a full access to our events and workshops via a full month membership. For more information, visit our Membership page. Hurry up ! We have a special offer for you.
2. To help you have more fun in Los Angeles, you will now receive daily notes on free things to do in Los Angeles, and this will be available on our Fan page on Facebook.
3. To create more bonds between international and domestics students, we have the pleasure to inform you that U in the USA will hold a FREE International Student Mixer on November 6. Click here to have all the details and reserve your spot. Hurry up! You can enter to WIN iPods, Universal Studios Tickets, Gift Card and more.
4. Also, this week we will visit your schools, SMC, UCLA Extension and West Los Angeles College to promote our activities and to explore ways to better assist you.
5. Moreover, we are making available to resource to help you navigate and explore Los Angeles like a local. This resource is called Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles, and we partnered with the publisher to make it available to you at our location.
WHAT IS NFT?
The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is filled with essential information neighborhood maps, local business listings, and editorial content about parks, transportations, sports, arts and entertainment. It is the prefect tool to help new residence and visitors alike explore the city. For more details, click here to watch a video presentation of the guide.
WHY NFT?
The NFT Guide will help you navigate LA. It will help you find your way around and feel more comfortable in your new surroundings without feeling like a tourist!
The book is listed at $25 (including shipping), but you can get it at $20 at U in the USA. If you want to take advantage of our special discounted price, contact us at contact@uintheusa.com or call us at 1.800.464.7681 to reserve your copy.
Before we end for now, we wanted to update on our upcoming events.
Note that we adding two new events : International Movie and Coffee Break and Cross-Cultural Activities.
• Tue, Oct 13 – Support Group (3:30 – 5:30 pm)
• Wed, Oct 14 – First Weeks in Los Angeles (3:30 – 5:30 pm)
• Thu, Oct 15 – First Weeks in Los Angeles (3:30 – 5:30 pm)
• Fri, Oct 16 – International Movie & Coffee Break (3:30 – 5:30 pm). This week, we will be playing a great movie called L’Auberge Espagnol.
• Sat, Oct 17 – Cross-Cultural Activities (3:30 – 5:30 pm).
You can also download a copy of the events calendar in Adobe PDF format.
We look forward to seeing this week.
“Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.”
~Oprah Winfrey
U in the USA
Don’t miss our First Event : First Weeks in Los Angeles …
Monday, September 28th, 2009Hello everyone,
We hope your first week of school went by well, and you also had a great weekend.
On our side, we completed our moving at 1746 1/2 Westwood Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90024. We will upload some pictures, so you can have an overview of what we called “The Global Citizenship House”.
We can’t wait to welcome you at your house and tell you more about the friendly activities that we designed just for you.
Speaking of activities, we are holding our first event, First Weeks in Los Angeles, on Wednesday 30, October, 2009 at 3:30 pm.
First Weeks in Los Angeles is a 2-hour workshop, which provides International Students, Exchange Visitors and dependents a comprehensive list of the most critical things that they need to know in order to really begin to feel comfortable and get settled in Los Angeles. You want to register, just click here, and we will do the rest. If you can make it on Wednesday, pick another date in our calendar.
U in the USA wants to be the “older cousin” to international Students, visitors and guest in the USA. Consider us like a family member who looks out, gives information, tips and recommendations, while offering fun, fascinating events that give foreign guests an opportunity to visit, explore and learn about the U.S. and in particular, the City of Angels, Los Angeles.
Here is a non exhaustive of our upcoming events.
Critical Topics Covered and Fun Group Outings, including City Tours
We offer information that covers the basic yet critical topics like transportation, housing while offering information about inexpensive ways to do banking or to get a cell phone. We present information about key places to visit, attractions and sights to see and we even take our clients on fun group outings to see many of these neighborhoods and local highlights. We give key information on where to eat and shop as well as places of interest and places to find ethnic food and other items that may remind our guests of home. We not only give suggestions about restaurants, shopping, local trips and nightlife to keep our foreign guests from being bored, but we even take entertaining group trips to give our clients a chance to visit these places safely and economically.
Imaginative Workshops
We offer creative workshops so that our clients get detailed information about how to Assimilate to American Culture in a 6 part series that consists of 2-hour workshops that provide guiding information to better understand American Culture, adjust to life in America and communicate better with Americans in all aspects.
Cross Cultural Activities
Our most popular offerings are our Cross Cultural Activities: our intriguing day and evening outings provide international students, foreign exchange visitors, and American students fascinating opportunities to meet, learn about each other, take part in various activities, and discuss their respective cultures in a fun, safe, welcoming and supportive environment. We have events ranging from networking mixers, picnics, and conversation circles to interesting debates on movies, fashion, popular culture and lifestyles.
Support Groups
These are a series of interesting two-hour group discussions where international students and guests have a rare opportunity to communicate with face to face with the help of a U in the USA facilitator. The communication will take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others’ experiences while providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks.
You want to know more about event, please do visit our events calendar.
We look forward to getting you quickly settled in Los Angeles with a big smile on your faces.
We are wishing a great evening.
U in the USA
Michael Jackson: “This Is It” Tickets Available This Sunday
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Good Morning and Happy 1st day of Autumn 09 everyone,
We hope that your first day in class went well.
We are posting this quick note to share this information with you.
Michael Jackson “This Is It” movie tickets go on sale this Sunday.
Fans worldwide will have the opportunity to celebrate the global launch of Michael Jackson‘s THIS IS IT when Sony Pictures Entertainment hosts over 25 global premieres, with more than 15 of those coordinated simultaneously around the world, on Tuesday, October 27th. Three hours after the red carpet events begin, audiences will be able to see the highly anticipated film for the first time as the studio has added special advance screenings that evening throughout the world.
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will be available worldwide for a limited two-week engagement beginning, Wednesday October 28. Tickets for all shows, including the Tuesday night special advance screenings, are available for purchase beginning this coming Sunday, September 27. Moviegoers can purchase tickets by visiting all major motion picture ticketing websites as well as www.thisisit-movie.com.
“Michael Jackson has an army of fans everywhere around the world. By rolling out this film with simultaneous premieres and special advance screenings on October 27th, we are giving audiences an incredible opportunity to join together in celebration of Michael Jackson’s incredible career,” said Jeff Blake, chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures.
The film’s world gala will be in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Tuesday, October 27. That event, which begins at 6pm PDT, kicks off a series of more than 25 premieres around the globe. More than 15 cities, including New York, Rio De Janeiro, London, Berlin, Johannesburg, and Seoul will host events simultaneously, with red carpet arrivals and activities from the Los Angeles event broadcast by satellite to those cities. Other cities, including Moscow, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, and many others will host their own, non-simultaneous premiere activities.
Three hours after the worldwide celebration of the motion picture, the first public screenings of the film will begin. For example, the first audiences in Los Angeles will see the film at 9pm; in New York, audiences will have the opportunity to see the film at midnight; and in London, the advance screenings will be at 4am UK time.
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London’s O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from March through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before. In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius, and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson’s creative partner and the director of the stage show, is also directing the film, which is being produced by Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega and Paul Gongaware. Executive producers are John Branca and John McClain. The film will be distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing. For more information about the film please visit www.thisisit-movie.com.
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Stanley Horowitz
All the best,
U in the USA
U in the USA is wishing you a great Monday …
Monday, September 21st, 2009Hi everybody,
We hope you had a great week-end.
Feel free to share your experience or questions with us.
On our side, we were busy moving in our new office at 1746 1/2 Westwood Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90024.
The place will be ready this week. However, you can already stop by to say hi, grab some free maps of Los Angeles and discuss the questions you may have.
This week, we found some interesting events that might interest you:
Tuesday, September 22
Middle Eastern Comedy Festival
8001 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles map
Time: 7:30 pm
Cost: $25 before Sept. 8, $30 after
It’s the first-ever Middle Eastern Comedy Festival, sharing culture and heritage through fun, original humor that EVERYONE can relate to. Check website for line-up.
UCLA Shopaholics Unite
W Hotel Westwood
930 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles
Time: 12:00 pm-7:00 pm
Cost: $1 dollar door donation
Shopaholics Unite is a dynamic shopping experience catered to college students during the recession. Top fashion companies are coming together to purge excess inventory while offering recession-proof shopping to students with 10%-70% off great items. First 100 shoppers with a receipt receive a gift bag.
Wednesday, September 23
OohLaLa Festival
Music Box at Henry Fonda Theater
6126 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles map
Time: Check website for times
Cost: Check website for prices
This three-day French music showcase will highlight the current French music scene with a series of performances running the gamut from hard-hitting electro to more traditional fare as well as emerging talent from the indie pop/rock and folk scenes.
Target Freshman Event
Target
3535 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles map
Time: 10:30 pm-1:30 am
Cost: Free
This year UCLA freshman class will be treated to a private after hours shopping event at a local Target store. A Target express bus will take the students directly to the store so they can shop onsite for dorm needs and personal items. There will be activities for the students, Coca Cola gift bag giveaways, DJ music, games, prizes and grilling demos. Plus, Target has enlisted the help of three well-known celebrity stylists to give anyone attending the event fresh makeovers for the upcoming school year.
Thursday, September 24
NewFilmmakers LA at Sunset Gower Studios
Sunset Gower Studios
1438 N. Gower St., Los Angeles map
Time: 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Cost: $6.00
5 short films including The Exhibition (Dir. Robert Macfarlane), Liminal (Dir. Stephen Keep Mills), Cuba 1961: A Love Story (Dir. Anthony Pombo), A Wonderful Life In Paris (Dir. Sungmi Park), Steps (Dir. Barney Cheng), and To Comfort You (Dir. Marc Saltarelli). The directors and actors will participate in a live audience Q&A. Free open bar the entire evening.
USC Shopaholics Unite
Radisson Hotel
3540 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles map
Time: 12:00 pm-7:00 pm
Cost: $1 dollar door donation
Shopaholics Unite is a dynamic shopping experience catered to college students during the recession. Top fashion companies are coming together to purge excess inventory while offering recession-proof shopping to students with 10%-70% off great items. First 100 shoppers with a receipt receive a gift bag.
Friday, September 25
LACMA’s Friday Night Jazz
LACMA’s Friday Night Jazz series returns for its eighteenth season, celebrating the finest jazz musicians from across Los Angeles. Click here for a list of performers. The free concert series goes through November. Concerts run from 6 pm to 8 pm, leaving you time after every concert to explore the collections and exhibitions at the museum.
Friday Night Jazz is made possible in part by the Johnny Mercer Foundation. In-kind support is provided by KKJZ 88.1 FM.
FREE
Every Friday 6-8PM
5905 Wilshire Blvd. (Central Court Area)
Los Angeles, CA 90036
lacma.org
(323) 857-6115
Sunday, September 27
Free – Venice “Abbot Kinney Festival”
25th Annual Abbot Kinney Festival – Sunday September 27, 2009 ALL DAY
Join over 150,000 unpretentiously hip, environmentally aware, artsy people this Sunday at Venice Beach and indulge in culture, music and food. The festival is held along Abbot Kinney Blvd and surrounding areas. Music performers ranging from Hip Hop to Indie Rock to Jazz will be on hand at three concert-stage locations. Families and kids visit the Youth & Family Courtyard for games, face paintings, rides, music and more. Go Green. There will be an Eco-Village set up with art, information and goods all aimed at protecting our planet. Vendors and food will be abundant at the festival so bring your recyclable bag and a healthy appetite.
Have a great afternoon.
U in the USA