Today, we want to tell you how our foreign students spent their New Year holidays. While Belarusian students often return home to celebrate the New Year, our students stay here, and we have organized various events specifically for them.
On the eve of the New Year, on December 27, 1st-year students visited the F1-katok ice rink and the Christmas Fair on Nemiga. The students also watched performances by acrobats and dancers and participated in the fair's win-win lottery.
On 30.12, the Department of Belarusian and Russian Languages and the Confucius Institute for Science and Technology at BNTU held a joint «New Year's Conversation Club». Master's students, who study Russian as a foreign language, and students, who study Chinese, engaged in discussions about the traditions of celebrating the New Year in Belarus and China.
In the new year, a number of events were also held for ICF students.
On January 1, a diverse program was prepared for the students in Dormitory No. 13, combining active games and intellectual tasks. The students competed in agility in the game «Stulchik», tested their luck in «Blind Candy Collecting», and demonstrated their knowledge in a themed «New Year's Quiz». For each victory in the contests, the students received sweet prizes.
On January 2, a festive tea party was organized for students, where they learned about the Christmas traditions of Belarus in a very warm and friendly atmosphere, and shared their customs from their home countries.
On January 4, a screening of «New Year's Short Films» was held in Dormitory 6. The students watched Soviet and modern New Year's films and shared their impressions. In Dormitory 18, a video was shown about the cultural aspects of celebrating Christmas and New Year's in Belarus. The students from Zimbabwe also shared their experiences of celebrating these holidays in their country and wrote greeting cards to each other.
The «Symbols of the Year» curatorial hour was held in Dormitory No. 16. The students gathered to create holiday amulets from salt dough. At the workshop, the students sculpted symbol figures: Christmas balls as a sign of joy and festive mood; stars as a symbol of hope and fulfillment of desires; horseshoes as a traditional sign of good luck and prosperity.
The year 2026 began brightly and productively for the students, we wish them new achievements and impressions!
