HUE Festival #2

more shots from the HUE festival.






　　

HUE Festival #1

Short-Term Exchange Students and a group of Japanese students had a booth selling "mochi" (rice cakes and) "oshiruko" (rice cakes in sweet redbean soup) during the HUE festival.


Thanks to everyone's hardwork and efforts (as well as cold weather), we had good sales - enough to have a party!




"mochi-tsuki" demonstrations worked quite well to attract people, too.

Mochi-Tsuki Practice

We had a mochi-tsuki practice with some Japanese students at Kodokan on Sunday.







We all tried pounding mochi in the stone bowl, and here's what we get:



we tried with sweet bean soup, ground soybean powder, soy sauce, and of course, natto (for some brave ones).

Tea Ceremony at Shukkeien

We had a "welcome tea ceremony" for exchange students at Shukkeien Garden.





Learned about how the tea master prepares for the tea ceremony with flowers, charcoals and tea bowls, and tried Japanese tea and sweets.






Even Japanese students weren't able to get up after sitting in Japanese style for a long time!

New Semester Started

On September 22, Fall-Winter 2008 Short-Term Exchange Program at HUE started with 12 STEP students and 4 Daegu Local-Semester students.
This semester, we have students from China, Denmark, Indonesia, Georgia, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Poland, and Portugal.

Completion Ceremony

Completion Ceremony for Spring-Summer 2008 Term was held in the HUE Conference Room.


Everyone got a Certificate of Completion from President Maekawa and gave speech in Japanese.



After the ceremony, they enjoyed donuts and coffee with Japanese students in the international lounge -- and time for pictures with everyone!

International Cafe #2

Second International Cafe event was held in Kodokan Cafe Time.

　
Like the previous International Cafe, 13 exchange students and 15 Japanese students enjoyed games and dishes prepared by Cafe Time together.

Each exchange student prepared quizzes about their home country for Japense students (but the game became more of a hide-and-seek and running in the Kodokan...), and learned a Japanese tongue twister for extra points.