Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Y
This is more about my stay in Japan so far. Here, it is an hr ahead of spore's time. Hee... Day 1 (9/12): Took train to Shin-imamiya,where Raizan Sth Hotel is. So fun.. First time. But we din know how to go from the station so luckily got this ojiisan helped us. But as there were Raizan Nth and Raizan Sth Hotel, and we naturally thought that they were far from each other, we doubted the Raizan Hotel when we saw it. While checking the direction again, there was a kind pedestrian who directed us to the POLICE STATION. Funny la.. So we bo bian and went to ask. 2 policemen came out with my frenz and gave the (-_-!!!) look coz Raizan hotel was just across the road, in front of us! So it was that one. The 8 of us pulled our luggages there and finally checked in! The receptionist was very friendly and kind, the whole place was cozy!!! While in my room, coz I was so tired as I din sleep a wink the night b4, zzzz while memorizing my script. Day 2 (10/12): Found out Raizan Nth is right beside Raizan Sth in the same building!!! Went to meet the rest of the group at Osaka station. Took Shinkansen to Hiroshima, which costed ard $100++. :<>
Then we met our host families, talked a little, and went to another ballroom to eat. Yea! Yum!
We talked at the table after settling in my host family's house. They have 4 members, but otosan(father) was on a business trip and the elder sis(Hisae) was on holiday at Italy. Rich. So it was only okasan(mother) and the younger sis(Chiaki). Chiaki is very outgoing and can tell that the family is very close to each other. She also likes Oguri Shun!!! When I mentioned him, she jumped up and started high-fiveing me. The whole house was in frenzy. ahhahah... they showed me and denise Oguri Shun's video. WOO~~~~
Day 3 (11/12): Went to the main branch of the bank and toured the place.
Lunch at another hotel but this one was very tiring. the bento was delicious but the discussion was about our ideas on women working environment, edu system, spore society etc. This was hard coz we haven learnt many of the terms yet. I got problem understanding that person and needed SQ or denise to translate for me. After that, many brain cells died. No wonder it was held in a lavish place. ~~~
next, we went to an art museum but was too tired to bother abt the pieces although they were very beautiful. The prog ended there but CT's host mother came and brought us to the shopping district Hondori. Woo~~
Day 4 (12/12): Went to museum on Jp's warcraft and wartime battleship at Kure. Although many will feel unjust by what Jp had done during ww2, i think they will be awed by the achievements and the tech they had during the 1930s. I will say the pple then were very clever and motivated to improve on their tech.
Ate Hiroshima's popular food called okonoyaki. It is noodles sandwiched btw 2 thin layers of fried eggs and cooked on a plate like teppanyaki. Oishikatta! (Pic next time)
Lastly, we went to another town to visit Mazda factory. Looking at the cars made me feel getting a license rightaway. Quite boring but knowing and seeing the process of assemblying the parts of the car tgt was interesting. So superb la! they have an alarm which goes off of they assembly the parts in the wrong place. And the test-drive of the car is also interesting. So clever to invent all the robots to help them too. WAH........
Coz we ended earlier today, so we went back to Hondori to search for stuff again! Yeah Yeah...
When I went back home, okasan was watching a variety show hosted by SMAP. That was the first time I watched it and it was quite funny la. they have been tgt as a band for 10 over years already. OMG.....
8 of us at Miyajima
Zhixin, Karen, Chuiying, MeiTing, Denise, CaiTian, Shiqi and me!!
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Little Memories Of The Past
8 of us at Miyajima