APU students will be part of the Rugby World Cup 2019

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By BoRo Dolgorjav (The Fountain staff)
November 2, 2018

Oita prefecture Rugby World Cup permission office came to APU from Oct 29 to Nov 1 to interview APU students to look for who can work as a volunteer.



Rugby World Cup 2019 organizing committee Japan has launched a volunteer program named Team NO-SIDE consisting of 10,000 volunteers on 12 locations around Japan.

“The TEAM NO-SIDE interview program in APU was very interesting and simple,” one of the students said. 

This interview program launched for 3 days in APU and has lots of games to interact with each other.


The purpose of the interview was to interact with people who haven’t met before and to learn how to cooperating, taking care of someone.

Oita prefecture Rugby World Cup permission office gives a big opportunity to APU students to interact with 19 host nations and shows their impression to the world.

217 APU students applied to become a volunteer. 

“APU students perfect for this competition” Oita prefecture office said. “We are looking for someone who can communicate with anyone, and who can show what Japan is like”.

They are expecting lots of things from APU students as they believe APU students can be the bridge between Japan and 19 host nations.

APU students who were in Team NO-SIDE interview program were learning how to communicate and work with people while having fun with each other.

“I was in lots of interviews but this time I didn’t feel any pressure, staff were all nice even I made lots of friends,” one of the participants said.
   
Rugby World Cup is one of the three biggest sports competitions in the world with more than 7.2 million players and 120 countries managing the game globally.

The Rugby World Cup 2019 will be Ninth Rugby World Cup from Sep 20th to Nov 2nd in Japan.


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