Drawing from a university summer program that involved international and domestic students participated together to experience and strengthen the relationship between them and children from a local community. In particular, this study re-images the social interaction and integration, cross-cultural transition and friendship development of International and domestic students after working together in a shared role. The findings include a number of salient themes emerged from qualitative data analysis and tubular charts analysis from likert-scale questionnaires. We highlighted only a select number of narratives that best reflect each theme and offer insights regarding the factors that impact the participation of international and domestic students. The main themes include social integration and interaction, cross-cultural transition and friendship development.