Wednesday, April 23, 2008
CESL Bazaar
On Tuesday, April 22, CESL held its semi-annual International Bazaar. Students from more than 30 countries displayed crafts, wore traditional clothing and played music from their homelands. Please write about your experience yesterday, either in terms of what you contributed from your country or what you saw and learned from another culture.
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(Cultural Bazaar Reflection)
At the Cultural Bazaar all the students from different countries were exposed to other people’s cultures. My personal experience about this was really different because I was introduced to many countries from the Asian culture that I’m interested in. An experience that I’ll never forget was being at the Korean booth. I learned various things about the culture such as their different kinds of food, their costumes, their folklore music and their calligraphy. When I first got in, the students where all dressed up in the traditional Korean gowns. They were greeting us in their native language. Through the music, we were able to live the mood they were setting. The whole experience was soul-catching. In the end of the tour around the room, I took a picture wearing the Korean gown to celebrate this memorable event.
International Bazaar
International bazaar was really interesting for every CESL student and teacher. We could see how interesting and different other cultures are and experience it at first hand. It was a really good opportunity for everyone for sure.
In room 201, Korean and Japanese people were crazy busy to show their culture to people who were from various countries. Koreans prepared a lot of things like traditional clothes, food, music, and so on. The Japanese were busy, too. Everyone liked their cute and interesting stuff like traditional toys, clothes, snacks, and teas. We both were so happy to have an opportunity to show our cultures to people from other countries.
I came late to the CESL International Bazaar. I still had a chance to visit almost all of the rooms. The first room I entered was, of course, the Saudi room. I enjoyed the Arabian coffee they had there. It has been a long time since I had any. I really miss it.
I also visited the Mexican display. I took a picture of myself wearing a Mexican sombrero. I particularly liked the beautiful white dresses the Mexican girls were wearing.
By the time I visited the Korean corner, they were already packing up their things. I heard that they had the best display, so I was a little disappointed that I missed it.
Although I am sure the Bazaar was extremely interesting, after being sleep deprived for a couple of nights, sleeping in felt like a really good idea at the time. There is always next time to make up for it.
CESL’s International Bazaar was something amazing, funny and educational for me. I have only seen people from other cultures wearing their traditional clothes on TV, but never in person. For example, Koreans and Saudis, both men and women, were wearing their traditional clothes; for me, it was something totally new. Actually, I had never thought that some day I was going to take a picture in a Korean suit, but I did it yesterday. The food was also something new, and I am pretty sure that the Mexican bits, just chips with “salsa”, that were available at our stand were new for others as well. For example, people who tried them told us the salsa was very spicy, when in fact for me, it wasn’t at all.
I participated in the “bazaar” yesterday. Every each room was full of the cultural things. I visited all of them once. I stayed Brazilian room for the longest time. They had totally different culture from Korea. Everyone was dancing with music in rapid motions. There were drums which I haven’t seen. The beat was real exciting. It was not embarrassing at all to join in the dancing. In my culture, we are less likely to dance because people often feel shy, and we dislike being in loud place. We are more likely to eat food, conversing with people in small voice. It was a good experience to understand all different cultures.
Yesterday, I attended the CESL International Bazaar, and I went to the Korean room. When I got into the room, I feel like I had arrived in Korea. There were many traditional Korean clothes, and many Korean foods such as Bulgogi, rice cake and Kimchi. You also could wear the clothes and take a photo to remember the occasion. Koreans were all very enthusiastic to me, and they showed me all different kinds of clothes and let me tried many delicious Korean foods. I felt like I had a travel to Korea. I enjoyed the International bazaar a lot.
About Bazaar
There were many CESL students prepared to show their culture for Americans and other people yesterday. The Bazaar was one of the most important things to my country students because it was a good opportunity to show our culture. Before the bazaar, Korean students rehearsed several times for the bazaar, and we prepared a lot of traditional food (Bulgogi, Rice cake, and Kimchi), clothing (Hanbok), and other cultural things.
Many visitors visited our class, and they really enjoyed our traditional culture. They could put on clothing, and then we took a photograph for visitors with Korean students traditional fashion models. We also prepared a presentation about cultural food, food and we explained everything to for the visitors because many people did not about Korea. We also wanted to give our culture and a Korean spirit.
We finished our work perfectly, and I learned about cooperation and responsibility. I think that one of the most important things was working with unity and they did their duty as a cultural mission.
CESL International Bazaar
I took part in the CESL international bazaar yesterday. We shared a room with Koreans to display our country’s things. I felt Koreans and Japanese were different because the Koreans were motivated to participative the bazaar, but most Japanese are not highly motivated.
Koreans prepared a lot of things, such as Pulgogi , traditional clothes and Kimchi. Every Korean was active. They stayed in their room, and they greeted many visitors.. On the other hand, most Japanese were not active. A couple of Japanese brought traditional things, but most Japanese brought one or two things. In addition, we did not have a meeting before this event.
In my experience, Koreans are every time active to everything, but Japanese are not like that.
Chul Park
We prepared a variety of posters about Kimchi, bulgogi, rice cake, and Hanbok for the International Bazaar. Frankly speaking, it was not easy although we are accustomed to hard work. Also, we prepared a chance for visitors wearing traditional costumes. We took photographs of the visitor wear traditional clothes. In fact, we were also ready for visitors to eat traditional food, but it was not allowed by CESL. I was happy all day long because I met a lot of people and I introduced our culture to people from other culture.
International Bazaar
When I got notification from the teacher about a bazaar meeting, nothing came up to mind about what we were going to do. After the first Korean meeting, everyone was not different from me. All of them seemed to be confused and worried about preparing. First, we elected the leader and set the procedures and thoroughly followed them to make the international bazaar perfect. Our aim was not just to exhibit our culture, but also to be outstanding in comparison to the others. The first procedure categorized Korean culture. Distinguishing and picking unique items to show was hard because there are many distinctive features in Korean culture. What we decided to display was based on the global human needs such as something to eat, to wear and to live. In the eating section, we chose three foods which are remotely famous, Kimchi(spicy cabbage), Bulgogi(Korean style beef) and Ttok(rice cake). In the clothing section, we made the fitting room for trying our traditional clothes and took pictures of people wearing them. Moreover, we made the section for visitors’ list and signed their name in Korean at the bottom of the picture. The bazaar was so successive and every Korean was too busy that we couldn’t go to the others. Well, one bad point is that we had a hard time cooking the meat and could not serve it due to the policy of prohibition of serving cooked food. Also, we spent a lot of our money to make that food. However, we ate the food ourselves at the closure of the very successful Korean bazaar which was another joy of the party.
Yesterday at the Cesl International Bazaar, I visited several countries’ exhibitions. Many of them were pretty interesting. However, the funniest one was the Chinese exhibition. It was about the upcoming Olympic Games. The games mascots are five small pictures with particular names each: BeiBei, JinJin, HuanHuan, YingYing, and NinNin.
Alone, each figure has a particular meaning; a kind of Chinese symbolism. What I found nice is the meaning of the five mascots together: Welcome to the Olympic Games in Beijing. I had not learnt about that before, and I really enjoyed that.
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