A year in Nagasaki

A desription of my final preparations during august and the fun time in Amsterdam during that time up to my year at the university of Nagasaki from the 1st october 2005 thru august 2006. Together with 9 other students from the University of Leiden, Holland, we are on an extra-curricular year to improve our conversational skills. Will it work ??

Thursday, October 6

Urakami High school


Today was spent at Urakami Junior High School...choice between sport and cooking (the choice was easy for me) and then lunch (our own stuff was shared out....nigori sushi (Rice with several things like fish sausage ???, omelet, surimi sticks, natto [fermented awful smelling soybeans], cucumbersticks and ofcourse sticky rice, rolled in a seaweed sheet [maki])....butamizoshiro, a sort of vegetable soup with porkmeat, tofu and mizo paste [soybeanpaste]) and crunchy noodles with more pork and vegetables....oishikatta..i.o.w. totally delicious. They showed us Japanese things like kendo (fighting with sticks) , typical japanese outfits...happy coats, kimono's and yukata (summer kimono's). Like all kids they were laughing a lot and and impressed by our knowledge of the Japanese language.
Tomorrow lectures about life..no idea what that means.
Saw two spotty mormon boys, freshly flown in from Utah, about to enroll on their two year mission work. Hope they give life in general a chance and do everything their god has forbidden.

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