Schedule for 2012

We plan to experiment with the schedule on this second year by slotting in only two sessions in a month.

From feedback by the students, once a week seems to be too time consuming and too repetitive, leading to a decline in interest and attendance.

From April to July, we shall have eight sessions.

Presentations shall alternate between Japanese students and four to international students.

Which means, four sessions shall be allotted to Japanese students and international students.

As before, Japanese students are highly encouraged to present in English while international students, in Japanese.

The day and time shall remain Monday, 12:00 to 13:00.

I am contemplating on changing the venue to the International Space (4th Floor of Kenkyu Koryu-To).

Participants can continue to bring their lunch packs and eat while listening to the presentations.

Tentatively, the schedule is as follows:

April 9: Natsumi Kotani
April 23
May 7
May 21
June 4
June 18
July 2
July 23

October 15
October 29
November 12
November 26
December 3
December 17
January 7
January 21


Students who are interested to present are welcomed to email me at Lrong(at)cc.kagawa-u.ac.jp

Otherwise, we shall fill up the schedule in the beginning of April.

Some brief figures for the year past...

Just for the record...

Number of presentations in academic year 2011: 23

Number of international students who presented: 13

Number of Japanese students who presented: 11
(One session was a joint-presentation by an international student and a Japanese student)

Total number of participants in the audience: 517
Of which, 179 were international students, 338 were Japanese students

Average number of participants per session: 22

My Wonderful Indonesia (Series #23)

In the final presentation for the academic year, Ridha Anshari talked about Indonesia.

There was a change of room at the last minute, followed by a little confusion.

All in all, 9 people attended this presentation, including 2 international students.

I was not able to attend this session due to other commitments, but I imagine Ridha must have presented a very educational as well as an entertaining presentation to the audience.

Food Culture Of Each Region Of Japan (Series #22)

Hotaru Ikehira, a freshman at the Faculty of Law, gave a presentation on the food culture of Japan. 

She separated the presentation into different regions of Japan...

The moderator was Marcus Khoo..

There were 13 people in the audience, including five international students.

“MAINZ am Rhein” (Series #21)

Today, we had a presentation from WOEBER Jonas (Johnny), an exchange student from Germany. 

He talked about the city of Mainz, an old city situated be the River Rhein.
 

He highlighted the city is famous for being the place where the printing press was invented. 

The city is also well known for the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Mainz Cathedral.

According to Johnny, the people of Mainz like to enjoy going to clubs and parties.

There were 16 people in the audience, of which 7 were international students.

The Symbols of Kojima, Okayama (Series #20)

Hayato Morimoto, a freshman from the Agriculture Faculty, made a presentation on his hometown, Kojima.

He did a very commendable job presenting in English, focusing on the main symbols of Kojima such as the marine products and the manufacture of jeans.

There were 14 people in the audience, with international students making up half of it. Wan Bunna was the moderator.

Mad about Malaysia (Series #19)

Marcus Khoo, an international student from Malaysia who is enrolled at Kagawa University under the Teacher Training Program, gave a presentation on Malaysia.

Marcus focused on the food of Malaysia and introduced five popular dishes.

There were 19 people in the audience including 8 international students.

A member of the audience asking a question to the speaker...

Marcus talking about the tea drink in Malaysia...

And demonstrating how to make the tea...