各位即将来到UCSD学习及生活的各位同学大家好！我是这一届CSSA（中国学生学者联谊会）中负责新生工作的兰兰，很高兴能认识大家。CSSA新生部的工作主要是将大家联系起来，在生活上提供一定的帮助，解答大家的疑难问题，使初次来美国的各位更好的适应这里，为离家在外的生活减轻一些压力。
初来美国的各位对于陌生的环境或多或少会有一些紧张的情绪，有些新生甚至连住处也没有联系到。为了更好地解决这个问题，在CSSA历任会长和会员，特别是在老会长陈波师兄的不懈努力下，CSSA与当地华人家庭合作建立了针对新生的接待家庭服务(Host Family Program)。接待家庭会前来机场或者火车站接站，而对于有需要的同学，接待家庭会提供三天的临时住处，用于让没能排到学校住房的同学利用这三天的时间寻找室友以及住房。接待家庭服务都是由San Diego当地华人家庭或学长们义务提供的。
为了让同学们能够尽快的安顿下来，CSSA成员、学长、以及当地的华人也会带领新生办理手机、银行帐号、SSN等，解决生活实际的需要。但由于近两年来新生人数的增加，接待家庭的名额有限，所以难免有一些同学或许不能获得接待家庭的帮助，但我们会尽力帮助好大家。接待家庭的申请表格各位同学可以发邮件向我索要，近期我会将表格统一发送。
最后，感谢同学们对我们工作的支持和信任，对热心提供接机以及接待家庭的朋友们表示由衷的感谢，谢谢给我提供很多支持的CSSA成员们，特别要谢谢上届新生部部长（这届的副主席）王思明同学给我留下的宝贵经验。
欢迎大家来到UCSD，希望可以早日见到大家！
我的邮箱：scorpioblue7@gmail.com
UCSD2010届新生qq群：395607
New Year Letter from the President
Dear Students,
My name is Jun Zhou and I serve as the President of UCSD-CSSA for the year 2009-2010. I am writing to you guys at the beginning of the new year, which I think is a good time to summarize the past and look forward to the future. First of all, please accept my best wishes for a happy new year, and hope the new year will bring the best of healthy and good luck to you and your family.
In the past 2009, CSSA has been working on helping new students integrate to the life in US and building up a great Chinese Community on UCSD campus. Thanks for the support from my dear co-works in CSSA committee, we did great jobs and received a lot of acknowledgment from different people and organizations. In host family program, our New Comer Coordinator Siming Wang, spent most of his spare time on processing applications, contacting host families and making schedules. Because of his hard work, more than 80% of new comers were helped to settle down by local Chinese families or senior students from UCSD. Moreover, a lot of new comers still keep good connections with their host families. In Mid-Autumn night party, we hosted a wonderful ballroom dance party for our members and more than 300 people from UCSD, SDSU and some local Chinese people joined in this amazing party. In addition to these two big events, we have also organized some small activities like Summer Picnic with CAST-SD, Immigration Seminars and etc, which all aimed at enriching our study life in UCSD.
In this coming February, CSSA will host the Chinese Spring Festival Gala at Price Center West Ballroom on UCSD campus and we expect to make this year’s event to be bigger and more fun than any previous year. Therefore, if anybody like to be involved in this big event or become closer to our community, come and join in us. You will enjoy this wonderful festival gala show as well as know a lot of awesome friends.
Best,
Jun Zhou
01/01/2010
大家好，
欢迎来到UCSD！我是王思明，在新一届CSSA成员中任新生部部长（PS：新生部不止一个人…），主要负责新生接待工作。相信大家踏上San Diego第一步后都会庆幸自己做出了一个明智的选择，沙滩、棕榈、帆板、海风、艳阳…但是五分钟后大家就会被迫面对California普遍存在公共交通不发达的问题，接下来就该面对空空如也的冰箱和卧室考虑午饭、晚饭和睡觉的问题了。也许这样说有点打击大家的对旅途的憧憬，不过对长途旅行来说，提前多做一些的打算不是件坏事。CSSA新生部（PS：我和若干CSSA成员）工作的基本出发点就是帮助大家解决踏上美国第一步随之而来的问题，让大家在异国他乡摆脱迷茫和孤独，找回家的温暖。
针对新生赴美可能遇到的各种问题，2008-2009CSSA全体成员编写了一份十分详尽的New Comer FAQ（version 3.0），新一届CSSA成员在原有的基础上进一步进行了修订（version 4.0）。FAQ涵盖了衣食住行等诸多方面的问题，强烈建议大家行前仔细参考，相信能对各位的旅途提供更多的便利。同时，为了让新生能够尽快安顿，今年CSSA依旧会为大家提供接机和安排接待家庭，主要帮助大家解决交通、购物、银行账户、SSN等实际问题。特别是接待家庭计划，对于住房没确定或希望深入了解美国生活的同学，建议你们申请。UCSD的接待家庭资源主要来自San Diego本地的教会团体，是他们用无私的爱为UCSD的中国留学生提供力所能及的帮助，没有他们，CSSA的工作寸步难行。对于新生，接待家庭会为你们提供三天的食宿和往返学校接送，并且帮助你们安顿生活。但是由于资源有限，特别是今年新生人数增多，只能遵循先到先得的原则，CSSA会尽力给每位申请人安排，如有服务不周之处，希望大家谅解。这里要求同学们至少提前一周申请接机，提前三周申请接待家庭（需要填写表格），具体问题联系：newcomer.cssa.ucsd@gmail.com
最后，我代表新一届全体CSSA成员对大家的信任与支持表示感谢，对接待家庭和相关教会团体表示由衷的感激。感谢上一届CSSA成员为我们留下的丰富的资源和经验，感谢CSSA主席周筠对我的信任。Welcome to San Diego! Welcome to UCSD!
再一次衷心感谢所有参与帮助的家庭们！
对于第一次来到美国的新生而言，下飞机后的第一站是最困难的。他们拎着大包小包，面对陌生的环境，非常需要帮助。今年ＵCSD CSSA与San Diego主恩堂和华美基督教会合作，安排接待了大部分新入学的中国学生。除了安排接机（pick up）以外，对于没找到住处的，还联系了接待家庭（host family）让他们暂住。事实证明CSSA和host family的付出让他们在美国的学习和生活有了一个很好的开始。很多host family为学生垫付了房租或押金，带学生找房子，办手机，买床和家具；介绍美国文化。所有学生都很认为我们的program对他们很有帮助。下面是部分学生回馈给CSSA的信息。
Continue reading ‘Host Family Program Feedback - Part I’
Dear students, due to the high demand for host family, we might not be able to respond to your request if you submit the application in the last minute. We suggest that you schedule your trip as early as possible, and we now only accept applications at least three weeks ahead of your departure. In that way your host family will be able to contact you in advance and prepare for the accommodation. Thank you for your understanding.
亲爱的同学们，我们近期收到大量需要接待家庭的申请。有些同学仅仅在离开中国前几天发出申请，我们只能是尽最大的努力。我们强烈建议您提前安排好行程。鉴于目前的情况，请您提前至少三个星期发出申请，否则恕难接收。如此，接待家庭可以有时间与您建立个人联系，并且做好接待准备。谢谢您的理解。
Recently we have received mountains of applications for host families. This year the housing situation is particularly tough and we wish every student will find their living places. Please also understand our limits that we only have a few tens of candidate host families. So plan ahead and send us the applications as early as possible.
We will post the new FAQ for the year 2008 soon.
这是今年我们与SD的华人社区共同努力推出的一个新计划。主要目的在于更有效的帮助新来的同学更快的适应美国的生活。接待家庭对新生提供的帮助包括接机，提供三天的 临时住处，安顿及熟悉新环境，等等。
为我们提供帮助的是SD的华人家庭。我们希望同学们与接待家庭能保持长期的联系。如果有兴趣，请下载此表格，并按照表格的说明寄给联系人。
Greetings from the President
Dear Friends,
My name is Yangbin Gao and I serve as the President of UCSD-CSSA for the year of 2010-2011. I would like first to thank you all for your support and help in the past, and also in advance for this promising academic year.
Jun Zhou, our dear previous president, has done a wonderful job during his term. With the help of you guys and the hard-working down-to-earth CSSA staff, we have been lucky to witness the growth of our community and the joys and pains we have shared in the past year. We have expanded our host family program, held the Mid-autumn Dance, and celebrated the Chinese New Year at the Gala…
People carpool here at CSSA. People find their Roommates here at CSSA. People sell their old furniture here at CSSA. But CSSA is more than that: We all know what the most important part is - people make friends here at CSSA! You know your Mr./Ms. Right is out there somewhere in our CSSA community, right?
Thanks to the help from Bo Chen and Jianjian Gao, we started our host family program two years ago. For this coming academic year, we are going to continue our host family program which would be our first and also the most important thing, and we are now seeking sincerely for your help. Your help could be as simple as answer a few questions from new students (either from your undergraduate university or coming to your current department), or you could also get more involved by pick up a new student, give him/her a non-international-center-type orientation and tell him/her the San Diego and UCSD in your eyes. (We are sending another message regarding this later.)
Besides the host family program, we will keep trying our best to make CSSA a better platform for our fellow students to come together, to get to know and help each other, and to have fun. But all of those would not be possible without help and involvement of you guys. If you could like to help CSSA in any aspect and are interested in joining the CSSA committee or just want to help around, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
email: ihavegone@gmail.com
Phone: 858-337-7679
Together, we make UCSD-CSSA rock.
Best,
Yangbin Gao
May 5th, 2010
Click the links below for more information
