On January 16, foreign students of the Medical Institute of PMBSNU celebrated the third day of the Pongal festival.
Pongal is one of the first festivals in India in the new year and is dedicated to the Sun God, who is to present a good harvest next year, as well as mark the end of the cold winter and the beginning of spring. The word Pongal translates as “happiness” and “prosperity.”
Pongal is celebrated in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, the territory of Puducherry in the Indian Union, Sri Lanka. This is a 4-day festival, which is celebrated according to the Tamil calendar, and in 2019 the dates of the holidays are as follows: January 14 – Bhogi Festival; January 15 – Surya Pongal, January 16 – Maatu Pongal, January 17 – Kaanum Pongal. Each day of the festival has its own peculiarities of celebration and tradition, but the main dishes these days are rice and milk, various sweets with nuts, cardamom, raisins and more.
Foreign students of PMBSNU celebrated their national holiday in the night club “Caprica” and prepared a beautiful holiday program with song and dance numbers. All numbers of the holiday program were a kind of talent contest and were evaluated by a jury, whose members were teachers present at the event.
The following were invited to the event:
Gennady Vasylovych Gryshchenko – Director of the Medical Institute of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.
Natalia Mykhailivna Ishchenko is the first vice-rector of the Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.
Mykola Vasyliovych Lyashenko – Vice-Rector for administrative and economic affairs.
Olga Mykolayivna Yaremchuk – Deputy Director of the Medical Institute for work with foreign students.
Roman Petrovich Buzhikov – Director of the training and research center for international education, candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor department of theory and practice of English translation, Institute of Philology, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.
Alina Radivna Florya is a leading specialist of the International Department.
Mohan Sundar is an intermediary for the enrollment of foreign students.
