The viewings are free to attend and are shown in the activity room on a 150-inch LCD projector screen. Snacks and drinks are provided, and the UCF community is welcome to attend. The Barbara Ying Center is located on the main campus off Central Florida Boulevard, near the Academic Village student housing.

The two groups want to use soccer’s international following to promote unity among UCF students. With more than 3,500 international students representing nearly 150  nations at UCF, the viewings provide a place for students of different backgrounds to communicate and bond over some fun and healthy competition. This is the third time the organizations have hosted the event, which is held every four years.

“The World Cup is a premier event which engages and touches people from around the world.  ISC’s mission is to support international students and scholars at UCF and celebrating these types of events helps to engage our students with each other and the larger UCF community,” said Mark Hartman, the center’s associate director.

Attendees are encouraged to show team spirit, and flags, team jerseys, hair dye and face paint are all welcome.

For a schedule of the games and more information about the International Services Center, visit its .

“For him, every moment in life was a very important moment, and every person he met was an interesting person,” Hemingway said. “It was a real eye opener for me, and a lesson for life.”

International Education Week features programs about learning abroad, meeting with others who have studied overseas, sampling international foods and other topics. Events include a Study Abroad Fair and Russian Culture Night on Wednesday, a Peace Corps information session and an International Fair on Thursday, and two sessions on education in South Africa on Friday. The breakfast was presented by the International Services Center and Global Perspectives Office.

At Tuesday’s breakfast, Valerie Hemingway shared her experiences in between musical and dance performances by international students and the presentation of awards honoring students and faculty members for their contributions to international education.

Hemingway grew up in Ireland, and she said she was focused only on Irish matters when she was living in Spain  to cover the Irish embassy and social scene for a newspaper in her home country. She said Ernest Hemingway told her to forget about Ireland and learn about Spain’s history, customs and current affairs, so she took his advice and began to experience more of Spain.

Hemingway later traveled with Hemingway and his wife, Mary, throughout Spain, France and Cuba for two years. She described him as a man of “extremes” who worked hard and played hard and who always sought the opinions of those around him.

After his death, she organized all of his papers for the Kennedy Library. She married – and later divorced – his youngest son, Gregory. She also wrote a memoir, “Running With the Bulls: My Years With the Hemingways.”

Also speaking at the breakfast, Provost and Executive Vice President Tony Waldrop noted that “at UCF, we feel a deep responsibility to educate our students to become global citizens, and we are proud of the outstanding strides in internationalization that the UCF campus and the community have made.”

Among the statistics that Waldrop cited:

UCF has 3,705 international students from 147 countries outside of the United States. The countries contributing the most students are Colombia, China and Venezuela.

UCF faculty members have degrees from 49 countries outside the United States.

Since 2005, UCF’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management has secured research contracts and grants for 35 tourism projects for 12 nations, including China and South Africa.

Winners of the 2012 Internationalization Awards presented at the breakfast were graduate student Shabnam Haji Mohammad Ali Sabbagh, Professor Naim Kapucu from the School of Public Administration and Professor Emeritus Richard Cornell from the College of Education.

şŁ˝ÇÖ±˛Ą alumnus Phil Dalhausser and student Afia Charles are among the competitors vying for the gold this summer. Opening ceremonies for the London Olympics are Friday, July 27, and the games run through Aug. 12.

Dalhausser, who graduated from UCF in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, will compete in beach volleyball. The volleyball pro lives in Ventura, Calif. He and his volleyball doubles partner, Todd Rogers, won gold medals in beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Dalhausser was born in Switzerland and lived there for a year before moving to the United States.  He played basketball and tennis at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, and took up volleyball his senior year.

Dalhausser was a member of the Men’s Volleyball Club at UCF, which competes locally and nationally, and he has been named Beach Male Athlete of the Year by USA Volleyball for the past four years.

The preliminary phase of the beach volleyball Olympic tournament will be Saturday, July 28.

Rising junior Charles is UCF’s first track and field Olympian. Charles, who holds dual-citizenship with Antigua, will be competing for the island nation in the 400-meter dash. Charles has raced for Antigua since she first picked up running in high school.

Charles trained at UCF alongside U.S. Olympian DeeDee Trotter – an already an Olympic bronze and gold medalist –  who is coached by UCF track and field head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert. The women will compete in Round 1 on Friday, Aug. 3.

Dalhausser and Charles aren’t the only Knights representing UCF in London.

UCF soccer player A.J. Nelson won’t be competing in the games, but he will be in London working as a video logger for NBC Sports. The senior forward is spending more than 20 days in London watching events and cutting highlight tapes as part of a summer internship.

The Olympic spirit will be hitting the UCF campus, too. On-campus celebrations include: