Name: Hanxue Zhu
Program Topic: Nonwest Collections of Expressions

It’s a collection of different cultural expressions. Students from different countries and nations present poetry, music, and dance. The most impressive item to me is the Korean fashion dance. Several girls were dancing with the Korean pop music. And the atmosphere was glowing. Other items were also amazing, too.

This event reminds me the academic course I took last semester, which is anthropology. The course is about different customs about the world. The custom about a group of people is about the culture, marriage, and life-style, which can be expressed by poetry, music and articles. One of items I watched was the dance from Latino students, which I never saw before. And I was expressed a lot by the original culture. There was no background music only the claps the dancers made. It brought you to the nature.

Secondly, I gained a lot of new information from this event. As an exchange student here, I am not very familiar with the local nature here. I’m from China and our ancient poems are so different. So when a student read her poem from her culture in front of us, I was surprised. The form and the content of the poem are so different from Chinese poems. It sounds really different. I was experiencing another world I never knew about. In a world, that collection of expressions of different nations brought me a lot of new experiences and I was impressed a lot.