Thursday, December 25, 2008

Cultural Day 2008 " Let's Do eXchange "







Culture is something that we have to care about . So many cultures around the world that makes a beautiful difference between us. As an organization which is care about diverse living, AIESEC LC UNDIP held an event named “cultural day 2008” themed “Let’s Do Exchanges To Find More Beautiful Experiences”. this event was held on December 18th 2008 at law faculty’s boulevard UNDIP from 9 am till 4 pm.
In this event, there were so many cultures that were shown, which were domestic cultures and foreign cultures.

CULTURAL DAY 2008 showed the beautiful traditional Indonesian songs which was sung by law faculty’s choir. That event also showed one of traditional dances in Indonesia. The dance was from Padang, West Sumatra, well known as ‘Tari Piring’. What a beautiful dancing it was! All of the participants was so enthusiastic to watch it. The dance performance was “outstanding” so that the participants was being interested to watch their performance. “It’s really fantastic, I’ve never seen an exotic dances like that before in my life, even in my own country, Belgium.” said Marelise - one of the participants.

After that we got beautiful acappela songs that sang by ANN. The participants were very convenient with the acapella. Then there was a magic show, the magician showed some tricks that made the participants were surprised.
And many more shows such as break dance from 1000 doors,games, and ROLE DANCE!!






CULDAY 08 was not only giving interesting performances, but also giving presentation from exchange participants. They introduced their countries to the participants, Those were good presentations because they brought some handicrafts, toys and food that became the characteristic of their countries.
Marelise for example, she brought some Belgium beers ,she said “it is very famous beer in Belgium”.

Beside the stage performances, there were also booths in CULDAY 08 such as Batik Semarang, Kedai digital, handicrafts booth by SMK 2 SMG, OLGA girls magz, KRAKATAU healthy drink. In batik semarang booth the participants tried to make BATIK by them self, it was fun! Kelly from new Zealand an marelise from Belgium had already tried.

All the participants was enjoyed CULDAY, “this event is very interesting and creative ,the minus is just about the mud because of the rain last night, I hope this event will be held again next year” said Toim participants from communication major. Not only the participants who were enjoyed CULDAY 08, the exchange participants like Marelise from Belgium said that it was a good event.” The crew and the participants is so enthusiastic. I enjoyed this”. When Aiesecly Yours (AY) had conversation with Marelise, she told that she choosed Indonesia because Indonesia has many culture and religion that live together, “ I think Indonesia is the most beautiful country in Asia, the people is very friendly”From a short interview with Marelise , we should proud with our country, because its culture, hospitality from indonesian that we have to keep it and show it to the world.SEE U in Next Culday!!!Long live @!!!


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