UNAIR NEWS – In 2018, Airlangga Global Day is in its second year.聽The series of Airlangga Global Day events initiated by Airlangga Global Engangement presents an international atmosphere in campus.
“Raising the spirit for UNAIR’s target towards 500 World Class University we want to present an international atmosphere on campus.聽So the international students studying at UNAIR also have a forum聽to enjoy their traditions and culture because we are all families of UNAIR academicians, “explained Karis, Head of Airlangga Global Day organizing committee.
Held on Friday, September 7, Airlangga Global Day has a series of activities.聽Some of them are聽international student performances聽and bazaars located in the area by the lake Campus C UNAIR.聽Assisted by approximately ten volunteer students from various faculties, Airlangga Global Day invited聽international offices聽from various universities in East Java to enliven the event.
In international student performances, there are several performances, including Reog Dance, Saman Dance, Angklung, and Yosakoi, with a total of 60 participants.
“For Saman, we present a聽club of聽students from the Faculty of Humanities who also have international students, as well as Yosakoi,” said Karis.
“In order to be make it more lively, we also held some games聽consisting of coin moving race from papaya, marbles race, running race, and cracker eating competitions intended specifically for our participating ineternational students,” he added.
Furthermore, to enliven the event there was also a bazaar consisting of 8聽local tenants. Four tenants聽were for food plating聽competition for聽6 groups of international students. They were international students from Africa and Thailand.聽There were also 2聽special聽tenants聽with Myanmar’s international specialties with sellers dressed in Thai clothes and Indian Cuisine Food from India.
“By organize it routinely, we hope that all聽inbound聽student activities聽and those who are studying at UNAIR really have a place to work.聽This is also an effort of branding UNAIR’s name in the international arena, “he concluded.聽(*)
Author: Wiwik Yuni Eryanti Ningrum
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
