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!

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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!



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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.

Chance, Chance, Chance!

HUE Baseball team made it to the national championship games in Tokyo again this year, and the university organized a "cheering bus trip" to Tokyo for the students.
13 international exchange students joined the tour to cheer for the HUE baseball team.

After riding on the bus for more than 11 hours, we arrived to Tokyo Dome.

Carp, Carp, Hiroshima....

We went to see the baseball game (Carps vs. Giants) in the newly-built Mazda Stadium. The stadium was almost full (except for the Giants section), and about 25 of us went together to cheer for the Carps.



Unfortunately, we lost the game, but everyone enjoyed the game, cheering and the new stadium. Hopefully we'll come back for a winning game sometime :)





We did the baloons after the 7th inning, too!

Quiz of the World

HUE had a stage during the Flower Festival, and the International Office and STEP students hosted a game show on May 3.




Volunteers from the audience tried to guess the answer to the questions STEP students prepared. They were questions about the country each student is from - such as "which flag is Poland?"



At the end, six winners took home a prize (book coupons).

Tea Ceremony in Shukkeien Garden

Tea Ceremony for International Exchange Students was held in Seifukan Tea House in Shukkeien Garden, Hiroshima.
Girls tried on kimonos for the first time, for tea ceremony, and all of us had a great privilege to enjoy tea ceremony with a beautiful spring view of the garden.






Ito sensei, our tea master, prepared tea for us and explained in details about tea items as well as the history of tea ceremony and manners.