Around the World in Two Days

2008-05-11T08:50:00.000-07:00

2008-05-11T08:46:00.000-07:00

2008-05-11T08:45:00.001-07:00

Excuse Me

2008-05-06T03:53:00.000-07:00

Saira finds those almonds repeating on Yodit and Carrie.

Mosaic

2008-05-06T03:45:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Roger Smith Pro Dean Students BCIM for this mosaic:

Aerial Henna

2008-05-06T03:43:00.001-07:00

Aerial Quality

2008-05-06T03:41:00.000-07:00

Piers and Adele from the LSBU Quality Unit visited the South Asia Stand.

Gulsah in a Headress

2008-05-06T03:33:00.000-07:00

Gulsah and Joachim from the MSc in International Business popped in to the event.

Students Passing through

2008-05-06T03:29:00.000-07:00

If anyone knows the students in these photos please let me know and I will post their names and courses.

African Headress

2008-05-06T03:26:00.000-07:00

Yodit

Yodit and Safia

Graduate Recruitment event

2008-05-06T03:11:00.000-07:00

Sigurdur Eli Haraldsson of Landsbanki's gave a presentation of the banks history, operations and future business plans. He was joined by a colleague and three members of the bank's graduate training programme. They fielded questions from BCIM staff and students about a career with their employer.

There was a lively debate about credit default swaps - there was, honest!

The other panel members who appeared with Sigurdur were:

Gunnar Orn Jonsson
James Thornton
Patric Okumi
Rupert Osborne

British Pub Quiz

2008-04-25T02:35:00.000-07:00

Helen hosted a traditional pub quiz. The teams were:

The Chinese
South Bank Uni
The Oldies
The Fabulous Three
Carlos' Group

The questions were:

1. What colour is the letter ‘L’ in the standard Google logo?

2. What was founded in Bologna, Italy in 1088, making it the first of its kind in Europe?

3. Which is the only vitamin not to be found in an egg?

4. What is the name of the street TVs Desperate housewives live on?

5. Name a planet in our solar system that has no moon?

6. Name Madonna’s 3 children.

7. In which ocean are the canary islands?

8. Which of these three countries has the most Internet users, Brazil, UK or Russia?

9. What is the worlds fastest growing plant

10. What major sporting event happened for the first time in London on 29 March 1981?

11. What is the largest organ of the human body?

12. Who in Greek mythology fell in love with his own reflection?

13. Which chemical element gets it's name from a greek word meaning 'stranger'?

14. What did Harry Beck design in 1931 and is still used in London today?

15. Where on the body are the most sweat glands found?

16. Where in London were the terracotta army put on public display?

For some the answers were beyond Keystage 1:

The lens was manually put out of focus here in case evidence of collusion was filmed and there had to be a resit!:

In the end the winners were The Fabulous Three. Can you beat their score of 17.5 out of 18 (3 points for question 6)?

The answers are here

You can view a video of Helen's excellent comperance (is that a word?) and the prize giving:

Ethiopia Stand

2008-04-24T17:37:00.000-07:00

Yodit hosted a table of Ethopian culture including posters explaining the very different method of denoting and keeping time and a unique calendar.

A video tour of the stand:

Gan Gan Drum

2008-04-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

One of the students (send me your name if you can) who attended the Africa stand gave an impromptu Gan Gan Drum.

"Talking drums are part of a family of hourglass-shaped pressure drums. The drum heads at either end of the drum's wooden body are made from hide, fish-skin or other membranes which are wrapped around a wooden hoop. Leather cords or thongs run the length of the drum's body and are wrapped around both hoops; when these cords are squeezed under the drummers arm, the drum heads tighten, changing the instrument's pitch. While this type of instrument can be modulated quite closely, its range is limited to a gathering or market-place, and it is primarily used in ceremonial settings. Ceremonial functions could include dance, rituals, story-telling and communication of points of order.

Some of the variations of the talking drum among West African ethnic groups:

Tama (Wolof of Senegal)
Gan gan, Dun Dun (Yoruba of Nigeria)
Dondo (Ashanti of central Ghana)
Lunna (Dagomba of northern Ghana)
Kalangu (Hausa of northern Nigeria and Niger) "

Wikipedia

2008-04-23T19:08:00.001-07:00

The Afganistan Stand was hosted by Dr. Safia Barikzai. Among the visitors to the stand, 17 students from Afganistan discovered each others campus presence - they did not know each other before or that some where even at LSBU and as a result are forming an Afghanistan society.

A video of the stand is accessible below:

The India and South Asia Stand

2008-04-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

This was hosted by Professor Shushma Patel.

A video of the stand can be accessed here:

Some mobile photos sent By MMS

2008-04-21T06:41:00.001-07:00

Paul

Some pix from my mobile and Geoff's

Dave

AW2D

2008-04-18T02:17:00.001-07:00

The European Stand was Hosted By Thor. He received some great information and goods from various embassies including some excellent CDs, one of them by Puppy is playing on a CD player near you!

In Full swing.

Hello Paul

2008-04-17T02:14:00.000-07:00

Hi Paul

The 'Around the World in Two Days' event is a brilliant idea. Just
wondered if you've thought of involving the whole university and
making it an annual LSBU event. It will create more awareness and
this could be a selling point for LSBU.

Well done to all the organisers. I realised the challenges that
students with arabic educational background face when they choose to
study in the UK. Having to learn to write in a completely differet
style with different sets of alphabets. I now know how to spell my
name in arabic though...

There you go - you can learn something new from these sort of events.

Regards

Aissata Edmondson
International Officer
London South Bank University

Spot the Jianzi competition

2008-04-16T16:02:00.000-07:00

Draw in the missing Jianzi and win a prize. You can click on the picture to enlarge it.

This might help:

Another Rich and Colourful Stand

2008-04-16T15:53:00.001-07:00

Shujun Meng (International Foundation Course For Business and Computing and Joanna Liu (student welfare officer)hosted the China and Philippines Stand. Deep in conversation:

but time for a photo-break:

and then a game of Jianzi:

The Mascots have a Group Hug

2008-04-16T15:34:00.001-07:00

The event is in full swing

2008-04-16T15:22:00.000-07:00

This photo was a bit blurred so I have used Irfanview's (freeware) sharpen function to give it a grainy look which rescues it I think.

2008-04-16T15:13:00.000-07:00

Alem Assele helped Kemi Adeboye (Course Director for the FdSc & HND Business Information Technology) host the Africa stand. His friend Mohamme Ali came to offer support.

The Afghanistan Stand

2008-04-16T14:56:00.000-07:00

The Afghanistan stand was hosted by Dr Safia Barikzai and Zarif Sakhizada (BSc Computing Studies). Zarif is pictured here:

and Safia helped Dr Carrie Rutherford try on a Burkha:

The art of Henna

2008-04-16T14:14:00.000-07:00

At the India and South Asia stand, this is Svetlana Cholujanova having henna applied to her hand by Professor Shushma Patel. Some of the photos were taken from a height - I had to reach over the large group gathered to watch.

Sporticus?

2008-04-16T13:35:00.000-07:00

Thor warms up for the day ahead.

Panorama

2008-04-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

This is a join of three photos. Pictured are Thor and Hortense at the Iceland stand. Professor Dilip Patel is chatting with a man in a red coat. Dave Inman is hosting the Japan stand and Joanna Lu is presenting for China and the Philippines.

Child's Play

2008-04-16T13:15:00.000-07:00

Saira Mirza (BCIM) and Rebecca Fong (CLSD) try to convince Niamh that her glass is half-full and not half-empty.

Last minute Nerves?

2008-04-16T05:57:00.000-07:00

Saira and Yodit share there thoughts as the event starts.

Thor was well organised and ready for the punters:

Welcome

2008-04-15T15:54:00.000-07:00

Around the World in Two Days
Welcome to the blog for BCIM's 2 day multicultural celebration event.
Participants can contribute thoughts, messages, and pictures from your phone or email. Simply send them to cardenpj.aw2d@blogger.com and they will appear soon after.