International Students Newsletter
February – March, 2016
9th annual Business Expo & Employment Fair
Graduating students, alumni and
community members met with
managers and representatives of
several companies at the ninth
annual Business Expo & Employment
Fair held at Okanagan College in
early February.
More
than
60
businesses
representing the banking industry,
business
solutions,
engineering
technologies, IT, trades and the
Canadian Armed Forces and Coast
Guard gathered to meet interested
candidates from across the Valley.
If this is your first semester studying in Canada, you
are not required to file any taxes. However, if you
had lived in Canada since 2015 or before, you are
encouraged to file your taxes. Feel free to pick up
some Income tax guides at our office.
How do I file my taxes?
1) The OC Accounting Club can help you. Visit the
tax clinics located at the Kelowna campus.
2) Seek advice from a tax professional or a tax
firm in town.
The deadline to submit your taxes is
April 30, 2016!
Congratulations
students
from
to
our
Kyoto
Japanese
Tachibana
University who just finished their ESL
program. We wish them all the best in
the future!
Make sure the International office has your
current mailing and email address. If you
have recently received a new study permit,
we need a copy of it to update your student
file.
Can you see the deer coming to
visit the new athletics park at
the Vernon campus?
Summer registration time tickets!
It’s time to register for your summer courses at OC. Make sure to
check your email to find out your registration time ticket. The
sooner you register for courses, the better!
Making your dream come true with a
little bit of persistence!
A love for fashion and minimalistic designs is all it took for
our current OC Business student Orlando Ricketts to get
started on a life-changing path. Orlando Ricketts is an
international student from Jamaica and he is currently in
completion of his 2 year Business Administration DiplomaAccounting Option. A student during the day, and
entrepreneur by night, Orlando has been able to build an
online t-shirt, and lifestyle product company over the past
year.
TMK Supply Clothing aka Team Kleen was launched in
February 2015 and it was founded on the lifestyles and
vision of a small group of people that shared one common
interest: "It was always about self-confidence, believing in
yourself and staying clean" tells Orlando.
Orlando, like many other international students, has had
moments of frustration, doubt, lack of confidence and
homesickness. Nevertheless, he kept being positive and
persistent in achieving his dream. “I remember vividly
such moments myself, when a course seemed too hard,
when the work ahead of me seemed like too much, but
then I decided that if I was going to be "defeated" by
something, I was at least going to give it my best effort
because I do not want to live with the lingering idea that
I did not succeed at something because I did not even
give myself a fair chance to succeed.”
His message to other international students is simple: “Do
not give up and do not let the doubts defeat you!”
Ask a Linguist
Dr. Rick Goulden
One mosses, two meese?
Don’t plurals in English make you crazy? Even Anglo-Canadians (native speakers of English) find them a
nuisance (annoying problem) sometimes. Ask Anglo-Canadians what the plural of ‘mouse’ is and they will
answer, “mice.” Then ask them, “What about a computer mouse?” They won’t know the answer - some will
say ‘mouses,’ others will say ‘mice’.
The reason why there are different plural forms in English is because some come from Old English which
had several different types of plural forms. For example, the word children still keeps its Old English
plural suffix -ren.
Sometimes just the vowel changed in Old English words as we can still see in geese, feet, teeth, men,
women, mice, and lice. In some cases, the plural was the same as the singular; we still see this in a few
words for animals such as moose, fish, shrimp, salmon, sheep, and trout.
A fourth pattern survived from Old English: when we change the pronunciation of [f] to [v] and then use
the –s plural in words like: thieves, knives, lives, leaves, loaves, shelves etc.
Today most nouns in English just add -s to make a plural (if they have a plural). The -s plural replaced many
of the Old English plurals under the influence of the French language. The French conquered England in
1066 A.D. and for the next two hundred years, French became the language of the aristocracy, the
government, and the legal system in England.
Singular
goose
tooth
foot
man
woman
child
Plural
geese
teeth
feet
men
women
children
Singular
Plural
moose
fish
shrimp
salmon
sheep
trout
moose
fish
shrimp
salmon
sheep
trout
Singular
thief
knife
life
leaf
loaf
shelf
Plural
thieves
knives
lives
leaves
loaves
shelves
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