CCI PROGRAM HAD A GREAT TIME WITH DENMARK STUDENTS

CCI HAD A GREAT TIME WITH DENMARK STUDENTS

Mira Aryuni

Kirkwood International Office has a short-term group visit from Zealand Business College, Denmark. They visited IOWA for two weeks. This study tour has a purpose to learn U.S culture, business and also sport. This is a program that prepared by the international program who has a partnership with the college in Denmark for ten years. Dawn as a Director of Kirkwood International Office said” We developed activities to encourage the international student to get better understanding of U.S culture. This tour is not only about fun and traveling. Furthermore, it is about learning and engage them to make dialogue to someone who has different culture”

Denmark students had visited many places such as cultural site, shopping center, IOWA city campus, football games and much more. Akin who is Denmark student mentioned “We are very happy to be here. We learned U.S culture. We found the differences between Denmark and U.S, such as no cycling et al and drinking rule. In the U.S, you should be 21 years old or older to legal drinking but in Denmark, you can drink when you are 16 years old.

 Picnic with CCI students became one of their activities. In their first meeting, they divided into groups and played “Guess where is the country from” game. CCI students are prohibited to tell where they are come from. In contrary, Denmark student should be able to guess CCI student’s countries through asking some questions that arranged by the International office in advance. Their activity did not stop there. They continue to go to Jones Park to do a short picnic. In that time, they were playing football and having a meal together. They also were sharing their culture and experience. Rico, the CCI student, told that he was enjoy meeting Denmark student because he learned Denmark culture and made a friendship. He expects similar activity in the future.

Dawn added “The goal of this event is make Denmark students interact with American and other International students. We expect they make a conversation because a conversation is important to make the better world to place”.