All posts by Thomas Greve

City Life, City Theme Activities, Toride City

Toride City – Cooking & Kites

Kite making in Toride

Day of activity: July 25th 2015

Today was a lot of fun. I’m bad at taking buses, but I had to. I missed it and I got driven to the meeting point instead. We met at Katarai No Sato. I was happy to see everyone, and we made our daily talk round. Some of the staff told us about a strange guy doing tricks with his diabolo wich they saw, and I laughed a lot. After this, the LOC (Local Organizing Comittee) women showed us a short movie about Toride. It was funny, because the translation didn’t always work out like it should. Then we made our own onigiri and even though we didn’t have enough space, I liked it. Later, we made little flags; some with countries and some with motives. The host families arrived and we ate a lot of tasty food. We began to make self-made kites with drawings. We had monster, pokemon and bird groups. My monster group won. It was a great day and the food was wonderful.

Marie (France)

City Life, City Theme Activities, Isehara City

Host-family day in Isehara

Samurai village

Day of activity: July 19th 2015

It started with a car trip to Hakone where there is a small samurai village. There was a recreation of a village for samurai, made to look the way it would have in the edo period. It was amazing! The nature and the atmosphere was refreshing. The temprature was perfect for a guy from Northern-Europe; Not too cold, and not too hot.

After that, we went to a hot spring with panorama skyview! I loved it! When I felt like I was boiling, a nice and kind breeze cooled me down.

On our way home from the hot spring, we stoped to buy some kind of fish cake. It was not the best fish cake I have tasted, but it was good.

When we got back home, my roommate Simon and I had some time to rest. Our host-family prepared dinner while we were resting. The dinner was extremely good! Fried chicken, fish cake, salad, beer, milk and potatos (because I am from Norway, and LOVE milk and potatos). It was a delicious dinner and a perfect ending to this adventure in Japan with World Campus International – Japan!

Marius Einmo (Norway)