Best 5 memories in 2010

Time runs faster than we realize. There are only two days left for 2010. I want to remember and tell you what I did in this year, before we see the New Year 2011 in. Though there were lots of events I had a good time, it is a little bit troublesome to explain all. Therefore, I’ll choose five most interesting and exciting events of those all.

1. I went to Nagano for Retreat. Retreat is the only official event in ICU, and all freshmen can or should join it. Since the number of freshmen in this year is so huge that one hotel was reserved entirely.

There are two purposes for this event. One purpose is to make students understand more what ICU is. The other one is to help students have better and deeper contact with their ICU friends who they met before Retreat, and make more friends during Retreat.

In discussion with teachers and other students, I have to be discussion leader. Though I make effort to make the discussion more enjoyable, I can't do it. At least, I was able to continue the dialogue until it was ended. In the explanation of majors, I heard about "International Relations" and "History". After that, I met with section mates to talk or to eat some snacks. At midnight on 5/15, because the date was birthday for Koji, we send mail to him to celebrate being 19 years old. Finally, we continue this section companion until about 3 a.m. It was too tired to act on 2nd day, but I tried to have a good time.

After Retreat, all students look so enjoyable and it was so relieved for me because I was one member of Retreat committee. Since the theme of Retreat was "Can you make friends at least 100?" I hope that every student can have more friends.

Retreat is the first time and the last time for us to go on a school trip in ICU. Also, it is the last time for us to do so in our whole life.

2. I always feel glad to enter ICU festival committee. Until I joined the club, I felt some lonely because there were few friends in ICU. When an entrance ceremony was held in the first day in ICU, I was alone. There was no friend from my junior or senior high school. However, I got great number of friends by entering ICU festival committee. Of course, there are also many acquaintances that don’t belong in the committee. But, it was the first time to manage to make much more ICU friends. And now, there are almost hundred ICU friends.

3. I participated in Nojiri lake Camp at the beginning of the summer vacation. During this camp, we don’t have to pay attention to time, ages, but just have a good camp. There are many interesting and exciting rules in this camp. Those rules looked rigid at the first time, but as much as we enjoyed the camp, we became to recognize those obligations were necessary. I’ll introduce you one typical rule. It is about our names. In this camp, we called each other as their Nojiri names. We don’t try to know campers’ real name, or show our real names. We can make a false name. Well, real names were revealed in the last day, but we always call them as Nojiri names even after we come back from Nojiri lake. There are many other interesting rules in the camp. I want to join this camp again next year.

4. There was another camp during my summer vacation. It was ICU Festival Committee’s camp. We tried hard to consider and decide what we are going to do for ICU Festival 2010. This was the main purpose of the camp. However, during this camp, we managed to recognize almost completely who joins this committee, and we made good contact with them. We had a good time for work and leisure. I hope the camp will be held in 2011

5. ICU Festival was the best event in this year. It was my first festival in ICU, and the festival was made by us ICU festival committee. I felt very happy when many participants, such as customers, performers, or buyers, had enjoyed the festival. When I consider and realize the reason why those people were able to have fun in the festival, I feel very glad and proud of belonging ICU Festival Committee. We made great effort to consider and make interesting and exciting festival, and we made it! That is the reason. I want to continue to join ICU Festival Committee, and try to make much better festival next year.

Those five memories are most interesting and exciting experiences in 2010. I hope there are much more interesting events in next year. I wish you Happy New Year!! よいお年を！！