Brunei Darussalam: The abode of Peace (Lunch Presentation Meeting Series #066)

For the 66th presentation in the serier, we have Jim from Brunei talking about his home country. There were 33 students (of which, 9 were international students) listening to his talk. The Q&A followed, and we ended the session with the students mingling and chatting among themselves.

On May 2, there is no presentation.
On May 9, Pham Thi Hong Tham from Vietnam shall be presenting.
Please bring you lunch and join us. (Lrong)

Senegal: the country, it's people and culture (Lunch Presentation Meeting Series #065)

Today, we had the pleasure of having Khalifa from Senegal to make a presentation. He is the very first student Kagawa University is hosting from Senegal, so we were keen to listen to his presentation. Su from Myanmar was the MC.

The presentation turned out to be very interesting as we learned of things like a lake that has 40% salt content.

Thirty four people came, out of which, eleven were international students.

Next week, Jim, a student from Brunei shall be presenting, and Khalifa shall be the MC. (Lrong)

Tourist spots of Yangon (Lunch Presentation Meeting Series #064)

The first presentation for the academic year 2016 kicked off with a talk by Su (Su yadanar Thit) from Myanmar.
This is the 64th presentation in the series that started in March 2011.

She gave a presentation in Japanese on the tourist spots of her hometown, Yangon.
Twenty four students (of which, seven were international students) came to listen to her talk.
We slotted time for the students to mingle and chat with one another after the talk and Q&A.

Next week, we shall Sy Khalifa from Senegal to make the presentation. Please bring you lunch box and join us... (Lrong)

Welcome Party for Spring 2016

In Spring 2016, we had the pleasure of welcoming 57 new international students from 13 countries.
On 9th April (Sat), we conducted guidance sessions for our dormitories, followed by guidance for student life.
As in previous years, the local police staff cooperated with us in the guidance.

After all was done, it was time for the senior students to join in to welcome our new friends in the Welcome Party.
I think we had about 150 people in the floor.
Traditional Japanese music was performed by a student club called 'Chikuyu Kai' (literally, The Bamboo Club' whereby yours truly is also the Advisor).

International students were then invited to experience touching and playing the Japanese Koto and the Shakuhachi.
Students who are interested to learn how to play the Japanese music instruments can contact me.

The bingo game followed, conducted by Inter-Cultural Exchange Society, with prizes contributed by Bushozan International Association, a local community association with a long history of friendship with us.

Thank you all, for coming, and please study hard... (Lrong)