International
Cultural Festival and Celebration was an event held by Widya Mandala University
on April, 8 2016. There were several representatives from 7 different countries such as
France, Belarus, China, Indonesia, Spain, Netherlands and German. They told us
about their beloved countries like their history, favorite spots for tourist
and also their language. This event was also opened for public, so there were
many high school students came.
When
I came into the auditorium, it had already crowded with people. I saw 7 tenants
from 7 different countries. However, I was really interested in Indonesia’s
tenant which called “Warung Pecel Enak Pol”. It served Indonesian’s traditional
food called pecel. Then, I sat down and the event began. The event was started
with a dance performance. After that, the representatives began their
presentation one by one.
The
first turn fell to China. They sent 1 representative to do the presentation.
She told us about Hakka community in Indonesia, how it grew, and where they
came from. Besides that, she also taught us how to write in china’s
calligraphy. Then, after she finished the presentation, 1 representative from
France came on to the stage and took over. She greeted us with French and the audience was so confuse because almost all of us did not know what that
meant. However, she then translated it in to Bahasa Indonesia. She told us that
in order to learn French, there were several levels that we had to
overcome. I knew France was so difficult to learn, especially when it came to pronounce
the words. After that, the next turn was Belarus. The representative also told
us the same way like the other 2 countries.
The
fourth turn fell to Indonesia. The representative talked about Indonesian’s
traditional food such as pecel and rujak cingur. It was so interesting and
almost made me wanted to eat one. After that, the next turn was Spain and then
followed by German and Netherlands. Spain’s salsa dance was a quite good
activity to distract our boredom. However, German’s representative was a funny
person. She liked to joke a bit and then threw some questions about their
country and for they who could answer her questions got 1 goody bag. It
attracted everyone in the auditorium and we were excited to answer. The last
but not least was Netherlands. They sent 2 representatives to the stage and
explained all about the greatness of Netherlands.
As for me, I would rather say this event is quite good but
not perfect. I knew this event was very helpful because it shared a lot of information
from 7 different countries and they also offered us to apply study abroad.
Nevertheless, it would be better if every country have 1 native speaker as a representative
and shortened the duration of presentation because too much presentation made
us bored. After all, I think this event can be held again next year with a
better concept.
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Thank you for the encouraging suggestion: we'll hope to be able to conduct a better version of this multicultural event next year!
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