Warm Welcome from DThU

September 4, 2019

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Students Association Activity

Today, we will follow several agendas. In this morning at 08.00 a.m, we attending students association activities. This activity was held to introduce the existing faculty at Dong Thap University to freshmen. In this activity there are several exhibition stands and food bazaars. We can try all of the foods with cheap prices. In addition, there are several faculties that organize games, such as the Mathematics Education Faculty. This faculty made a game about math and if we could answer it we would be given a prize. That’s why we really enjoyed this activity 😂 . Here are the pictures of this activities:

Welcoming Activity

**Lecturers, Mentors, Volunteers, and SEA-Teacher Participants**

After the students association activity we take a rest in the dorm. The next agenda was the welcoming activity, which was joined by a meeting with lecturers, mentors, volunteers and all participants of SEA-Teacher Project. In this activity, we listened to welcoming speech from Dong Thap University and speech from the dean of the Sriwijaya University. In addition, we were also given the opportunity to introduce ourselves and at the end of the event we were given the presents from Dong Thap University.

**Lecturers, Mentors, Volunteers, and SEA-Teacher Participants at Welcoming Activity**

**The dean of Sriwijaya University gave a speech**

**Giving the presents from Dong Thap University to SEA-Teacher Participants**

Dinner

The next agenda is to have dinner together. At 04.00 p.m. the volunteers were ready to pick us in front of the dorm, really they were very kind. We were invited to go to Vietha restaurant in Cao Lanh City. We went there using the school bus. They prepare a lot of food, and of course we can try everything 😊. When eating, we also share stories with lecturers and other friends. This can make us more familiar with each other.

Gala Night

After dinner, we returned to campus to attend the gala night. The gala night will be held at 07.30 p.m. We returned to the dorm for Magrib prayers first, after that we prepared to attend the gala. SEA-Teacher participants from Indonesia use traditional clothes and batik clothes. In this gala there are many musical and dance performances. This gala night is very lively, we really enjoyed it. 😊