Newsletter OfBus trip to Nagasaki

Photo credits: Jeevan Joshy

44th International Cooking Festival

I like this kind of festival which strengthens teamwork in addition toenhancing the knowledge of other world’s cuisines. I like cooking, it’s
one of my favorite hobbies! I experienced a lot from this festival such as
taking into consideration the limitation of time, the fine competition
among the participating teams, the nice smells, outstanding flavors, anddedication to work in order to provide the best dishes. I wish to thankso much everyone who participated in making the event successful. I
hope to see this festival in future years extending to include morecountries.
Ahmed Amir Ismail, Iraq
Participating in the food festival was a great experience for me. Neverbefore had I experienced such amount of cultural diversity. Movingfrom one booth to the other, enjoying the various delicious foods, andinteracting with people from different cultures world over, felt just likemoving around the world. I must admit that I learnt a lot and am
grateful for that chance. As a new KUFSA member, this was the best
welcome I’d ever ask for. My sincere appreciation to the organizers andall that made it happen, for allowing us experience the whole world in
one room! I look forward to taking part in many more festivals in future.
Edward Gichuki, Kenya

1“All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy.”
University life is not all about studies
and homework. Sports and other fun
activities play an important role inmaking it one of the most memorable
parts of our life. Keeping this in mind,
KUFSA holds an annual Football
Tournament.
International
undergraduate students under IUPE
program regularly participate in thistournament.
This year, the IUPE team, cheekily
named ‘Benchwarmers F.C.’ returned
home with the trophy! The competition
had different teams comprising ofArabs, Chinese, Africans, Vietnamese,Indonesians and also a few Latin
Americancountries.
Our
team
consisted of IUPE students and ourJapanese friends. The teams weredivided into two groups of four teams.
Each team had three games in thegroup stages. The IUPE team cruised tothe semifinals where they had to meettheir archrivals, ‘The African Lions’.
What ensued was an exciting battle ofspeed and technique. In the end, wemanaged to get into the finals! Our last
hurdle was the team from China, 'theCHN United'. Determined to take thetrophy, we set onto the field for themost thrilling match of the day. The
match ended in a 3-3 draw and went on
to the dreaded penalty shootouts.

Jeevan Joshy, India

There was all kinds of emotions in thefield, as Benchwarmers saved twoshoots, and emerged victorious. As an
icing on the cake, Leo, third year
undergraduate student from our team,bagged the prize for the top goal-scorerof the tournament. The KUFSA football
tournament is a platform for people
from different cultural and linguistic
backgrounds to come together andrevel in the spirit of the game offootball. It is not only about winning,
but also about making friends andcreating everlasting memories.

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Alexandra Ola Wolf, Poland

On the 23rd of November I attended the KUFSA Nagasaki trip. Weather
report predicted a rainy day, so a prospective of a sunny morning brought
about a smile in everyone.
The first stop on our Nagasaki trip was the Atomic Bomb Museum. Theplace itself was very symbolic because it gathered all students withdifferent nationalities and their own history backgrounds in one place.
The visit to the Bomb Museum showed that despite experiencing cruelty
and sadness, we can be united showing compassion and respect.
After those thoughtful moments, we went to a man-made island called
Dejima, which was constructed in the 17th century to separate thePortuguese and later the Dutch residents from the Japanese population.
Everyone enjoyed the western style houses and their interiors and thecute maquette of the fan-shaped island was a great selfie spot!
As it is also in life sometimes, rainy clouds gathered over Nagasaki.
Nevertheless, we arrived at Glover Garden armed with raincoats andumbrellas. Thousands of romantic illuminations created an amazing
evening. I was very pleased to see people searching for two heart-shaped
stones embedded in the path! I am really glad you found them ;-)That day Nagasaki won over many international hearts. Present mirrored
the past. Thank you all for those wonderful memories!

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Japan through my lensIndia
Mechanical Engineering,B3

Whatinspired you to be a
photographer? This is the question thatpeople ask me frequently. Frankly
speaking, I never thought that I would
start loving photography when I bought
my camera. I just wanted to take picturesof Japan, so that I could share them withmy family back home in India. As I started
my journey of capturing various moments
and wonderful sceneries, I discoveredthat the 'land of rising sun' was more thanjust places. It was a glorious mix oftraditions, culture, quirky trends, fashion,cleanliness, technology and the list goeson. To experience Japan to the farthest
extent possible, I started to photographevery aspect of it. As my journey went
deeper, I started to realize that theOshiyama is full of surprises around every
corner. Sharing this experience in Japanhas played the most important part in
defining me as a photographer. As long as
I am here, I hope to capture most of it's
uniqueness which distinguishes this 'landof samurais' from rest of the world.

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Kyudai sai-九大祭 in Ito campusA bright sunny day welcomed theEvery team member did enjoy thisannual Kyushu University festival, campus festival which gave us a lot of“Kyudaisai”.This year, my Chinese wonderful memories.
team repesented KUFSA on theinternational street at the festival.
We sold traditional Cantonese food
which is a well-known cuisine of allvarieties of Chinese cuisine. Ourmenu contained nourishing soup,chicken wings made by coke andspecial Chinese spicy, chewy, juicy
pancake with two flavors. The
nourishing soup use very healthy
herbal ingredients such as ginger,
jujube and wolfberry with freshvegetables and whole chicken slowcooked for more than 8 hours. Thejuicy chicken wings were sold out
quickly on the first day and thepancake with special flavors andcolor won over people’s hearts. Themoments when people said they
were satisfied with our food were
the happiest for us.

5, China

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