Summer vacation is here! Any plans?


Why not become an ICC event supporter, and help us to organize

the Welcome Festival and Japanese Festival for the fall 2010 !



The Welcome Festival and Japanese Festival are a series of events

organized at the start of every semester to welcome freshmen, including

international students. By becoming a supporter, you can:



– Work together with other local and international students

– Learn more about Japanese culture

– Become a “senpai” for newly arriving international students

by sharing your knowledge and experience



If any of the above appeals to you, drop by an Information

Session to find out more!

Information Session (1) Aug. 30th (Mon) 1:00 – 1:20pm

Information Session (2) Aug. 31st (Tue) 4:00 – 4:20pm

Information Session (3) Sep. 1st (Wed) 11:00 -11:20am

* The contents of the three information sessions are the same.

* Registration is not required for the information sessions,

however you must attend one of the sessions in order

to be eligible for becoming an actual supporter.

* Participating in an information session does not obligate

you to become a supporter.

* Those who already have experience as an ICC Japanese Festival

event supporter are still required to attend an information

session.

Place: ICC lounge (1st Fl., Building 7)



Eligibility: Waseda students, faculty, and staff members

【Event outline】


◆Welcome Festival

Period: Sep 21 (Tue) – Oct. 9 (Sat)

Event ideas(tentative) :

(1)ICC Special Campus Tour (in English & Japanese)

(2)Cafe-style event where you make sightseeing plans in Tokyo

(3)Cafe-style event where Waseda’s ICC is introduced

(4)Cafe-style event where participants enjoy talking in Japanese

(5)Exploring downtown Tokyo in groups by using the Arakawa Metropolitan street car



◆Japanese Festival

Period: Oct. 15 (Fri) – Oct. 22 (Fri)

Event ideas(tentative) :

(1)Japanese culture event (example: try-on a Yukata, do calligraphy, try Japanese music, etc.)

(2)J-pop Party

(3)Other

【Upcoming schedule】

Sep. 2nd (Thu) 9:00am -Supporter application deadline

Sep. 3rd (Fri) 3:00-5:00pm 　 -Supporters’ meeting @ the ICC

Sep. 3rd (Fri) until the event day -Supporters’ preparation period

★Check out a student’s experience as a Japanese Festival supporter.

Inquiries: TEL: 03-5286-3990 E-mail: japanese-festa@list.waseda.jp

This time we will welcome a special coordinator!

Dr. IMAD’EDDINE GAEL is a former Visiting Researcher at Waseda,

and now teachers at the Louvain School of Management, UCL, in Belgium.

If you are learning French and have some free time in the afternoon,

then come join this special French Hour!

Contents: Role-playing game

*Please refer to the message from the coordinator for more details at the end of this message.


Level: Able to make simple sentences in French

Registration: Access Waseda-net Portal → System Services → Application →

「ＩＣＣフレンチ・アワー・スペシャル　ICC Special French Hour (8/18)」


Registration Deadline: August 17th, 9:00am

Guest Coordinator: IMAD’EDDINE GAEL, Postdoctoral Assistant,

Louvain School of Management, UCL

Inquiries: TEL: 03-5286-3990 E-mail: icc-cafe@list.waseda.jp

Message from the Coordinator

Bonjour

Hello everyone !

I would like to invite you to a special French Hour on August 18th.
Practice French while having some fun!

Maximum participants: 5 or 6 people


Language skill required: being able to make a simple sentence in French.


Time: 2 hours

This activity will require pre-registration for organizational purposes.
With your pre-registration, please specify any movies you liked recently.
There is no limit on the number of movies you can mention but if there
are a lot, please just mention the kind of movies you like.

I hope you will have a good time speaking French and learning how to play
a role-playing game. No, no, no, it is not about bringing your Nintendo DS
and playing Dragon quest in French. A role-playing game is a cooperative
game where everyone together builds a story. One of the players
will be the narrator. The narrator (played by me) needs to imagine the main
lines of a story, and also describe the fictional world where the characters
evolve. The other players are in charge of one fictional character with
strengths and weaknesses (the character can not be a player). The narrator
will describe some scenes with challenges, and have dialogues with other
characters of the world. The players will interact with the world and try
to find clues. The players and the narrator cannot always succeed in what
they attempt, and when there is a risk of failure in the chosen action, we
use a random element to determine whether it is a success or a failure.
The chance of failure is part of the fun.

The winner of such a game is anyone who can have fun enjoying the story
created during the session. So, everyone can win!

The story can be about anything and any kind of world (present times,
realistic, dramatic or fantastic- our past, a near future, a fantasy world
with magic and dragons, the samurai era, science fiction, anything). We just
decide at the beginning in which setting we want to start the story.

Don’t be afraid to join! It’s simple and fun! Most of the work is done
by me (the narrator).

Here are some more details about role-playing games:

If you’re not familiar with role playing, the idea is unbelievably simple:
You take on the persona of a character and interact with other
player-characters (or PC’s), also portrayed by real people. The PC’s undertake
missions, where they acquire experience to improve their capabilities,
and may additionally gain wealth, knowledge, or fame. The story is directed
by one player who is called the Narrator. The Narrator describes the
environment, handles any creatures or other menaces that threaten the PC’s,
and referees (judges) the rules that determine how various events turn out.

Role playing is a form of improvisational storytelling with every player
helping to tell the story. It is like acting in a movie that has no script,
with everyone at the table making up the scenes and the dialogue as the drama
unfolds – and there is an unlimited budget for special effects! It is not a
sequence of events that inevitably and inexorably lead to some predefined end.
Rather, every moment of the game is creates a new future storyline, shaped
by the actions of the players. Unlike a movie where the end credits must
roll and a sequel might be years away, the next installment of your story
will happen at your next gaming session.