Organizing Nepali Week

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by Mai Yamashita (The Fountain staff)
December 23, 2018



The long awaited Nepali Week was held at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, where students from all over the world participated and enjoyed the vast and diverse forms of Nepali cultures. From exotic cuisines to catchy bollywood-themed songs, there were a lot of breathtaking events to cover at this year Nepali Week.


“I had no knowledge about Nepali Week.” An APU’s first year student from Nepal, Kandel Hira Lal who majors in APM was an organizer of Nepali Week in this year.


Kandel was in charge of the Nepali booth at cafeteria as well as a backstage member for Grand Show held on Friday. He had to decorate a booth at cafeteria for Nepali Week which a lot of people fascinated by and visited because this booth was enveloped by Nepali traditional theme of atmosphere and this was novelty for many people.


At Nepali booth, there was a photo booth and lots of people took photos with traditional clothes. According to Kandel, Nepali Week gave Nepali souvenir for people who took pictures there and posted taken pictures on Instagram hashtag with NepaliWeek2018.


Through preparation for Nepali Week, everything was difficult for him, Kandel said. It was his first time to assume a role. He was scolded by other leaders because some of things were going wrong and he was not used to organize. “However it was still a good experience of me,” he said. “Because I could learn from mistakes.”


Kandel felt that it was the best moment to be a leader of Nepali Week even though he thinks that he does not have a good leadership skill. He tried to keep it up and tried hard to make it succeed. Now, other Nepali Week leaders show appreciation towards him and his hard work on it.

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