Another great afternoon in Toyota City. Today we were told we were going to learn how to make japanese food. 🙂 Nice!!! ~ Many of us signed up for it because what a great opportunity.

We started with the “learning” it wasn’t as simple as we thought, of course, there are so many details that go into making a japanese dish… we thought it was going to look HORRIBLE to be honest but at the end, it wasn’t too bad. It actually looked REALLY GOOD!

We learned how to make sushi… but… once you cut it, the inside of the roll looks like roses. Yes! like roses, can you believe it? Those Japanese people really know how to make food a special thing not only to eat but to see.

Take a look at the picture!

In the City of Toyota you can find a very big community of Brazilian people. On this day we went to an apartment complex where 8300 people live, 4000 of them are foreigners. Not only from Brazil, which are the majority of them, also from Peru, Philippines, China and other countries.

Inside the Apartment Complex we visited a Non-profit organization that works with the kids of the immigrants, kids that can go to school because they don’t speak the language or are not up to date with the school work and can’t keep up, that’s the price they have to pay for being immigrants.

Mrs. Imura decided to open up this NPO 10 years ago called Homi Danchi, to help those kids to continue to go to school. Today the NPO keeps helping kids and even young adults to continue with their education. Some of them keep going to the place just to do homework or to feel part of something.

Toyota is a very interesting community because is very different from the rest of Japan. You can find many foreigners there, specially from Brazil, and diversity is not seen as such a strange thing. People are more used to seeing people from other countries there, many people speak English and the interest for learning about other cultures and languages is obvious.

It is good to know that we, as World Campus – Japan, could see a little bit of a different Japan in the City of Toyota. Every place in Japan, for sure has its own magic and Toyota has a very special magic.