Monthly Archives: May 2015

Helping the community, Student Success, Updates from UC staff

NZ Aid student celebrated for excellence

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Charlie Sofe receives his award for excellence

Charlie Sofe receives his award of excellence from Student Success Manager Jim Dragna

Second year Civil Engineering student Charlie Sofe from Samoa received the 2014 award of excellence at the UC NZ Aid celebration event earlier this month. Check out all the photos on the UC student’s NZ Aid site.

NZ Aid is a scholarship scheme offered to candidates from nominated developing countries around the world. UC currently has around 100 students funded under this scheme studying a wide range of subjects and degrees with particular focus on the developmental needs of their home country.

Half of UC’s NZ Aid Scholars fall into the New Zealand Pacific Scholarships (NZPS) category.  Each year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade gives an award to UC’s highest NZPS academic performer over the previous academic year. Charlie is the recipient of this award for 2014.

Charlie hopes to become a Civil Engineering consultant, contributing to the continuing development of Samoa’s infrastructure.

Congrats Charlie! And in honour of Samoan Language Week, fa’amalo!

Uni Notices, Updates from UC staff

Free Flu Vaccines

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The UC Health Centre is offering FREE flu vaccines for:

  • All domestic students with a chronic condition
  • All students enrolled at UC Health Centre
  • $5 for students enrolled elsewhere and International Students  – just pick up a voucher from the UCSA before making appointment (expires 31 July 2015)

 

Student life, Updates from UC staff

Recipe – Apple Roses

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apple roses

I tried out something I found on YouTube the other night – apple roses! Not only do they look good, but they are super easy to make and taste fantastic!

Here’s what you need  and what you need to do!

Ingredients

  • Sweet pastry sheet, thawed
  • 2 apples
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • 1 Tbsp flour, to sprinkle on the counter
  • Cinnamon (optional)
  • Icing sugar for decorating (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  2. Prepare a bowl with some water and the lemon juice. Cut the apples in half, remove the core and cut the apples into paper thin slices. Leave the skin on so it will give the red colour to your roses. Right away, place the sliced apples in the bowl with lemon and water, so that they won’t change colour.
  3. Microwave the apples in the bowl, for about 3 minutes, to make them slightly softer.
  4. Dust the clean kitchen bench with the flour. Using a rolling pin stretch the pastry a little, trying to keep it in a rectangular shape. Cut the pastry into 5 strips.
  5. Drain the apples slices and place them along the strips of pastry, leaving a small gap at the bottom. Sprinkle with cinnamon if you’d like.
  6. Fold up the bottom part of the pastry. Carefully roll, seal the edge, and place in muffin tins.
  7. Bake for about 40-45 minutes, until the pastry is fully cooked through.

Dust with icing sugar when cool.

Enjoy. Yum!