福島大学に留学したことは、私にとって素晴らしい経験であった。私が一番楽しいと感じたイベントは、やはり大学祭である。セルビアでは大学祭をあまり行うことがなく、日本のアニメだけで見ることが出来ないと思う。初めは、私は学祭が高校までのイベントだと思っていたので、福島大学でも学祭が行われると聞いた時、とてもびっくりした。

　学祭では福島大学のゆるキャラ、めばえちゃんと会うことができるし、学生が作った食べ物を買って食べれるし、ゲームをやれるし、学部やサークルの学生のパフォーマンスを見ることもできる。サークルが教室でカフェやバルーン動物の店を開いていたり、展覧会などもある。学生達はとても気さくで、日本語が苦手でも、福大生と日本語で会話をしたら、みんながとても喜んだ。

　私の一番好きなことはスタンプラリーであった。学祭のスタッフからスタンプカードをもらって、学内のあちこちでゲームをやって、スタンプを集める。そして、すべてのスタンプを集まったら、抽選をすることができる。夕方にはステージで抽選して、勝者を決める。今年一番のご褒美はディズニーランドへのチケットであった。もちろん、私は勝てなかったけれど、ゲームをやるのは楽しかった！

【英語訳】

My experience studying as an exchange student at Fukushima University has been nothing but wonderful so far. My favorite school event has had to be the school festival. Back in Serbia it's not very common to have school festivals, so to me it's something I could have only seen in anime. At first, I thought school festivals were something that happened only up until high school, so when I heard that a school festival would be happening at Fukushima University I was pleasantly surprised.

At the school festival, you could have met the university's official mascot, Mebae-chan, ate food made and sold by the students, played games, and watched student performances. Student circles organized cafes, balloon animal shops, exhibitions and other fun things in classrooms all over the campus as well. The students were all very friendly, so even if you were bad at Japanese they would be really happy just to hear you try to speak to them in their native language.

My favorite happening on the festival was the Pokemon themed stamp relay. You would be given a stamp sheet by one of the volunteers on the festival, looked for game stands, played games, and earned stamps. At the end, once you would collect all the stamps, you'd be entered in a lottery. In the evening, the volunteer students would draw lots on the main stage and decide on the winners. This year the grand prize was a trip to Disneyland. I didn't win of course, but I had a lot of fun collecting stamps!