Looking back at STEPs 2017

I look back on 2017 and want to report the activity of STEPs.

In April, I did announcement for invitation of the STEPs participant in a dean prize giving. I was afraid whether activity participants gathered, but it was good that interested students came. And new STEPs was formed. We made a plan of this aim and activity content of one year in the first activity.

Once a week, we mainly did English Time activity. The person who was in charge of on that day decided a title and widened a story based on the title. There was the day when a foreign student participated in English Time. Furthermore, we interchanged when foreign countries were visited. We were introduced to the native place country from Ms. Kathleen Schnaars who is a doctoral course student from Dresden University of Technology in Germany and Mr. Sami Ferdjani who is a teacher of the University of Burgundy in France. In addition, we were introduced from the students who promoted a language lounge in Saga University library, experienced a language lounge and interchanged with international students from Indonesia.

We did overseas training in September. We visited the Institute Pertanian Bogor in Indonesia and interchanged with the students of the department of science and engineering. We were really taken care of by Computer Science students. It was very good that we could watch a tradition and a technique of Bogor because we experienced the Indonesian musical instrument by cultural exchange and observed the company which cooperated with a university. We could enlarge the field of vision to the foreign countries by learning other culture and improve English skill by doing the interchange with local people. After return home from Indonesia, we reported the overseas training to the president of Saga University.

In December, we interchanged with overseas people of a specialized university making ships called PPNS SHIPS.
I feel that a talk became fun in English Time every week. I want to think about the title that anyone can be interested in to be able to heap up English Time more.

By the activity of 2018, I think about the establishment of STEPs Alumni newly. Because we are STEPs in the seventh quarter, I want to get opinion and advice from senior members.

Shigeyuki TSUJI