Hello everyone!

As promised, we are releasing the date of our Annual General Meeting 2020!

The meeting is planned to take place on the 1st of October 2020 via Zoom call. All members of the society will receive an invite link via email before the event, and they will receive a copy of the agenda for the night so that you can read it prior to coming along!

The meeting will cover two main topics:

1. The election of our new committee for the 2020/21 academic year

Every society will have a committee of student volunteers who fulfill different roles to help run a society. These students are members of the society who are elected to the committee by the rest of the members. At this meeting YOU will have the opportunity to get involved and join our committee! Everyone who was on the committee last year steps down at the AGM. We will be looking to fill the following positions:

1x President
1x Secretary
1x Treasurer
2x Health and Safety Officers
3x Events Officers
2x Trips Officers
2x Public Relations Officers
If you would like to run for any of these positions, make sure you have paid your membership fee and you will receive a copy of the AGM agenda prior to the AGM meeting with instructions on how the elections will run during the meeting! We can't recommend joining the committee enough, it is so rewarding and so much fun and there is a job for everyone!

        2. Our upcoming events schedule reveals

We are going to be releasing some of our upcoming events at this meeting. You will be able to find out about our plans for the semester, where we're going to go on our trips, and much, much more! Although it won't be a full event schedule, as we don't have our trips and events officers elected yet, we have planned some events to kick-start the year ahead of the election of our events and trips teams who will work on the rest of this year's events!

It's going to be a night to remember, and we can't wait to meet you all! We hope you're excited!

Be sure to pay your membership fee to become a member of the society BEFORE the event so that you get an email notification about the zoom meeting and the agenda. You can pay your membership fee next week on the UL Wolves website (online payments will be set up by then) or via our Paypal account (see our other news post on www.ulwolves.ie/international for more information on Paypal payments)

If you need any more questions, catch us on our social media platforms!

Hello everyone! We're so excited to see the great interest levels being expressed already from you all in joining the society! We can't wait to welcome you all.

As you all may know, we are currently moving towards an online payment method for membership fees for clubs and societies to minimise the handling of money and gathering of people to help stop the spread of COVID-19. This method of payment is not yet available on the UL Wolves website, and until then you can pay your membership fee of €5 via PayPal.

When you send us €5 by PayPal, make sure that the name you have signed up with on UL Wolves is visible on the PayPal transaction, then, a committee member will approve your membership request! Get in touch with us on any of our social media platforms below if we can be of any more assistance!

*PLEASE NOTE: Please uncheck the button stating that you are paying for a service or product, as this causes PayPal to take a fee from what we receive to cover insurance, and we will only end up receiving €4.43!

You can find our PayPal here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ulintsoc

Facebook: UL International Society
Instagram: @ulinternationalsociety
Snapchat: intsocietyul
Email: ulinternationalsociety@gmail.com

Hello everyone, and a very warm welcome to you all from the International Society!

We know that over the last number of weeks a brand new cohort of international students have been arriving in Ireland in advance of this academic year as you all have chosen to study at the University of Limerick - and we're so excited to welcome you all!

We are the UL International Society, and have been focused on helping international students make the most of their time at the university for over a decade! Just like every other club and society that you will find under the UL Wolves umbrella, we are run by students, some of us are full-time Irish students, and some of you will also get the opportunity to join our committee and help run the society this year!

Just to give you all a general introduction on the types of activities that we normally work on during the year, here is a list of what we have done in past years:

• TGIF - Thank God it's Friday! is our weekly Friday night themed party in the Stables Club! It's been known as one of the best nights of the week by many students!
• Trips around Ireland - we run trips around the country for everyone to join in and come explore some of Ireland's most amazing places, it really allows you to experience Ireland as a whole!
• Social Events - we organise events on campus such as Come Dine with Me, where you are paired up with other members of the society and visit everyone's house over the week to have dinner! We also host movie nights, pub quizzes, language exchanges and much, much more!
• Our SPECTACULAR International Ball - This is a fantastic send-off to the year and is a formal event at a hotel in Limerick where we have a three course meal, band, DJ, professional photographers and much more where everyone glams up for one heck of a send-off!
• & MANY, MANY MORE!

This year we are faced with a pandemic, however, and whilst we aim to host as many of these events as possible, this year, we will have to adapt. Our trips might lessen as travel is still slightly restricted around Ireland, TGIF won't be like it used to be with the restrictions that have been placed on bars, and we will have to monitor all of our other events carefully, too. That said, we have no plans to stop bringing the world together, and we will be bringing new and improved, COVID-19 safe events to the campus of UL soon!

Our first event is always our Annual General Meeting (AGM) where we will elect our new committee members to run the society, give a calendar of events to our members and get to know each other! We are still planning our AGM for this year, but be sure to check back here and on our social media channels over the next few weeks to keep in the loop and be notified when our AGM is announced! You don't want to miss the opportunity to get involved on a committee level, find out what we have planned for the upcoming semester, and meet your fellow members!

You should be able to start requesting membership on this website after you have made an account, our membership fee is €5 and it gives you access to all of our events and trips that we have planned for this upcoming semester. Irish students, you are also all more than welcome to get involved, it's a great way to meet people from all over the globe! :)

Catch us on social media:
Facebook: UL International Society
Instagram: @ulinternationalsociety
Snapchat: intsocietyul
Email: ulinternationalsociety@gmail.com

Once again, we extend our warmest welcomes to all of our new international wolves and can't wait to meet you all. Céad míle fáilte - a thousand welcomes!

Calvin
President

Masquerade Ball -

Tickets are selling fast for the Masquerade Ball and It's Shaping up to be the Biggest Night of the International Society's year.

Tomorrow at 6pm in Red Raisins will be one of the last opportunities to Buy. If You're considering attending, come get your ticket while they're still available.

We're proud to share the following Details too.

• Black Tie Dress - this means Gentlemen get suited up with your best shoes, and Ladies evening dresses please!
• Ball is Comprised of a reception where you will receive your mask if You haven't gotten Your own,
• Followed by a Four Course Dinner courtesy of the Castletroy Park Hotel starting at 8pm sharp!
• Prizes for Best Mask
• The Ballroom Bar will be open all night
• DJ until late
• Ticket's €40, if You signed up for St Patrick's Day Trip we can allocate your refund against a Ball Ticket, just let us know!
  

We're planning something really special this Christmas. Just in time for you before you go home, get your hands on a very limited edition pin badge that we have designed as a cheap souvenir for you to take with you as a memory of all you got up to in Ireland. Originally intended for sale next semester, they have arrived early and we would love to give you all the opportunity to get one before you head home.

The badges are only €2, and what's more, we're giving all proceeds to the C&S chosen charities this year. It's a great way to take something home with you that made an impact on your life, and to make an impact on the lives of people who need the extra bit of cash to help their charities prosper and for them to keep doing what they do.

The ONLY opportunity to get your hands on a badge in Semester 1 is at TGIF Farewell on the 6th of December. Hope you can make it!

Calling all international society members! We're looking for your input on what we're planning to be our best trip of the semester!

It's down to you to decide what we do on the Sunday! You can have 2 options - we would love if you voted in the poll to have your say!

Once we have the full trip and price arranged we will let you know, but for now look forward to what is going to be the best trip of the semester - hype!

The poll is over on our Facebook page, you can find the post here:
https://www.facebook.com/ulinternationalsociety/

We're so looking forward to sharing the full details of this trip with you - but for now - have your say, sit back and be excited!

Hello fellow members, this is information regarding our new video project!

We are looking for people enthusiastic about photography, videography, video editing etc and also for people who just like to capture the world through their lens. In technical terms we are looking for a team to work on the project and a team to carry out the content gathering since this video should come straight from our members. If you are interested in any of the above teams then please email us at ulinternationalsociety@gmail.com with your name, ID and Contact number and the email subject should be "Video Project Team" or "Content Gathering Team" depending on what you would like to do! If you are reading this a long time after this has been posted, go ahead and still contact us as we may still be working on the project!

Hello everyone! Hope week 4 is treating you well as we head into a hurricane.

We have an update regarding the finger food at Stables. We almost had the numbers last Friday but this time we must reach our goal so all of you can enjoy some amazing FREE FOOD at Stables on a Friday Night. So please show up before 8:30 pm every Friday and hopefully this week we will win the food!!!!!

This trip will be €15 and it will be a gorgeous trip! You will not want to miss this. We will be going to Lady's View, Torc Waterfall, and the lovely city of Killarney! One thing we recommend if you like nerdy things such as Lord of the Rings, is the pub called The Shire! It is like stepping into the set of Lord of the Rings :D

Good morning everyone just letting you know again that the Clubs & Socs Recruitment Drive will be held on 11th September in the UL Sport Arena from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm and we will have both member sign ups and sign ups for our first trip to DINGLE!!!! See ya'll soon.

Heya Folks! Hope you are doing well. We are so excited to have all of you on board and cannot wait to get started with this semester and meet all of you. This is great news now that we have our 1st Trip for the semester coming up this Saturday and we are taking you to Dingle and the Dingle Peninsula. Sign ups begin Tuesday the 10th of September in Red Raisins at 6:00 pm. If your friends are not members already, they can drop in and sign up for the membership first and then the trip. See ya'll soon.