Louyang my hometown (Series #016)

For the 16th presentation in the series, marking the final one for the semester, a freshman from the Engineering Faculty, Du Jinlong, presented about his hometown, Louyang...

Louyang has a colorful history in that she was one of the old capital cities of China before Beijing came in...

Du Jintong making a point here...

The moderator was Kanta Kou, a freshman from the Agriculture Faculty...

There were 22 participants in today's session, including 8 international students...

About Rugby (Series #015)

For the 15th presentation in the series, Kenji Deshima from the Faculty of Agriculture presented a talk on rubgy...

This topic provides a change from the presentations focusing on one's birthplace...

He presented in English, and made a very good effort at it...

Kenji provided an interesting comparison between vairous aspects of the rugby game with that of American football...

There were 23 participants today, with 5 being international students...

The moderator was Lei Kun, from the Faculty of Economics...

There were many questions, some of which asked about whether the players traded punches as is commonly seen in soccer and ice hockey games...

Apparently, within the High School rugby tournaments in Japan, Shikoku high schools are not known to be strong teams...
High schools in Fukuoka, Kanazawa, Osaka are the strong teams in these tournaments...

第15回夏日帰り（男木島） 15th Summer Trip (Ogijima)

Kagawa University Foreign Student Association (KUFSA) and Kagawa University Inter-Cultural Society (ICES), together with the sponsorship from Takamatsu Higashi Lions Club, organized the 15th Summer trip on 3rd July 2011, Sunday.

There were 111 participants from 11 countries...

We took the Meon Ferry, departing Takamatsu Port at 10:00...

The rainy season is not over, and when we reached Ogijima Port at 10:40, heavy rains fell on us...

We held the opening ceremony at the newly built Ticket Office Lounge where Takamatsu Higashi Lions Club presented KUFSA with some financial assistance...

Luckily, the rains stopped at about 11:30...

It was good to see international and Japanese students playing together at the beach...

Some of course, chose to remain dry while posing for pictures...

Ready to take the boat ride...

Takamatsu Higashi Lions Club members ushering students to come forward...

Spped boat pulling a 'banana boat'...

Each year, we always do the 'water melon splitting' game...

A miss...

Annother miss...

Ooh, that was brutal...

A 'soft touch' hit...

After the game, it was water melon time...

Hmmm...

Ahhh...

Heeeeaaa...

A group shot before the clean-up...

Parting shot before walking back to Ogijima Port...

Thus year, thank god that we did not have any major injuries...
The students seemed to have had a good time, and the Takamatsu Higashi Lions Club members were happy to assist us with the financial aid and the provision of the water vehicles...

We left Ogijima on the last ferry, departing at 17:00, and arriving at Takamatsu Port at 17:40...

Angkor Wat in Cambodia (Series #014)

For the 14th talk in the series, we have an international student from Cambodia...

Wan Bunna is an English teacher in Cambodia...

He is here to research on how English is taught to students...

The topic today focuses on Angkor Wat, one of two world heritage sites in Cambodia...
Wan Bunna made a very good try to present in Japanese language, with a little mixture of English...
His effort to do so was very commendable...

There were 26 participants, including 7 international students...

The moderator was Ryusuke Hoshikawa, a sophomore from the Economic Faculty...

Japanese sub-culture (Lunch Presentation Meeting Series #013)

Soma Kawaguchi from the Faculty of Agriculture gave an interesting talk on Japanese sub-culture focusing on Japanese anime.

He presented almost thoroughly in English, holding the audience in attention...

The moderator this time was a student from Korea, Cho Sang-Chan, a sophomore at the Faculty of Economics...

There were 43 people in the audience, the largest so far...
Out of this, 17 were international students... among them were 12 students from  Fu Jen Catholic University, Aletheia University (Taiwan) and Korea Maritime University who just arrived to attend our two-week Japanese Language and Culture Program...

Soma asked the audience to identity three sets of anime...
While one participant got the first one right, none in the audience could do so for all three anime...

When asked why he chose this topic, he said that he likes anime and that he wanted to present something different from the others who mainly talked about their hometowns...

All in all, the talk was interesting and well attended...

Fujian Province… my hometown (Lunch Presentation Meeting Series #012)

For the 12 presentation in the series, Yang Yumei, a freshman at the Faculty of Economics, talked about her hometown, Fujian Province, China...

After giving an outline of Fujian Province, she proceeded to introduce the audience on the world heritage sites of the province...

Next, she spoke about the capital city of the province, showing pictures of beautiful gardens and night scenes...

Today, we had 16 people in the audience, with 5 of them being international students...
The moderator was Takezaki, a freshman at the Faculty of Education... 

An interesting local food in Fujian is the fishballs...
Unlike others, these have pork meat stuffed inside...

On this day, a professional photographer was called by the university to shoot pictures for a mmgazine...

The history, scenery, and sweets of Kobe (Lunch Presentation Meeting Series #011)

Sae Adachi from the Faculty of Agriculture made a presentation on Kobe, focusing on her history, scenery, and sweets...

She made a good effort in using English to introduce herself...

The moderator was Yang Yumei from China, a freshman at the Faculty of Economics...

There were 20 participants today, with seven being international students.

Questions from the audience were mainly on the sweets and food of Kobe...
Apparently, as opposed to Osaka, Kobe is more famous for he sweets...