2009-09-28

Tea Ceremony

We had the chance to assist to a Tea Ceremony at the Skukkeien Garden (a very nice Japanese style garden). The girls even wore real Kimono.

The Tea Ceremony is very formal and is a moment where you relax and enjoy the Japanese spirit. First some sweet candies are served and then the master of the ceremony prepared the green tea.


Most of us were very impressed by the rituel that this Tea Ceremony is involving but to be honest some of us had real trouble sitting on our knees during the all ceremony (around 1:30).


We will all remember this zen moment for a long period of time!

posting by Laura

2009-09-26

Welcome Party

Yesterday night was organised the first real dinner with the Japanese students and some teachers.
The atmosphere was very relax and we had the chance to talk with a lot of different persons. We ate and laughted a lot.



Some of us even went after to a bar "Roxy" downtown with them. It was a lot of fun and our first impression of the japanese night is very good!



posting by Laura

2009-09-24

Fall 09 Semester



We will have 13 Short-Term Exchange Students from 7 countries (China, France, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, Korea, Poland) and 4 Local-Semester Students from Korea for Fall 09 Semester.

New students were officially matriculated to the program at HUE during the opening ceremony, which was held in the library on campus.