Ryuugakusei party, soba matsuri and the shougakkou
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19 Oktober 2013 | Japan, Matsumoto
After a bit of a short rest I shall now present to you all a small update about my Japan life!
Ryuugakusei party!
If translated: Foreign exchange party. There was a small party given for all of the foreign exchange students that study at Shinshu university. So we all geared up for the party!
The party itself was fun, but not anything like a Dutch party. For instance it started at 18.30 and ended at about 22.00, which is when normally the good stuff starts! There were also nearly not enough drinks for all the people there, so at about halfway they decided to get some more drinks. Also a funny thing was that we played bingo :P Normally only done by the senior citizens of the Netherlands.
After the ryuugakusei party we also held a small after party for us and the Korean students living in the same apartment as us. This was a lot of fun, they were even kind enough to bring some Korean food. We also prepared some food and brought the beers! All ends well!
The soba matsuri!
The soba matsuri is something that is actually only done in the prefacture I live in, Nagano-ken. In the rest of Japan soba is apparently not that popular, or at least not popular enough to give a party for it.
Soba is another type of noodle. So far I've eaten about 3 types, thick ones used in udon, thin ones mainly used in ramen and now also the kind used in soba. For me the soba noodles tasted a bit like the normal thin ramen noodles. This could be because I normally don't eat that much ramen and don't have the ability to distinguish the different flavours that well just out of memory.
The festival itself was given in the garden of Matsumoto castle and is a big attraction. It is 3 days long and the lines to get a bowl of soba are actually pretty long. None the less we also queued up and got us some soba. There are different kinds depending on the region the soba are from. There were stands from the south as well as the north of the Japan, so the entirety of Japan was represented. If you wanted you could go to the festival and eat a different type of soba from a different region every day. At the end a fun festival to see, and also another food to check of my list.
The shougakkou trip!
Shougakkou is Japanese for elementary school. We were asked if we wanted to go to a shougakkou and explain the kids some Dutch words. We would be picked up from our university and taken to the school itself. We were told that there would be about 30 students there so we went with the 5 of us. In the end there were only 6 students there. I'm not sure why, but it was fun none the less.
We let them ask questions and tried to teach them some simple Dutch words. After this we also went outside and even played a Dutch game called "lummelen("Pig in the middle" for the non Dutch speaking people)".
This is it for this post, not a whole more happened as university life has fully started. Till next time!
Ryuugakusei party!
If translated: Foreign exchange party. There was a small party given for all of the foreign exchange students that study at Shinshu university. So we all geared up for the party!
The party itself was fun, but not anything like a Dutch party. For instance it started at 18.30 and ended at about 22.00, which is when normally the good stuff starts! There were also nearly not enough drinks for all the people there, so at about halfway they decided to get some more drinks. Also a funny thing was that we played bingo :P Normally only done by the senior citizens of the Netherlands.
After the ryuugakusei party we also held a small after party for us and the Korean students living in the same apartment as us. This was a lot of fun, they were even kind enough to bring some Korean food. We also prepared some food and brought the beers! All ends well!
The soba matsuri!
The soba matsuri is something that is actually only done in the prefacture I live in, Nagano-ken. In the rest of Japan soba is apparently not that popular, or at least not popular enough to give a party for it.
Soba is another type of noodle. So far I've eaten about 3 types, thick ones used in udon, thin ones mainly used in ramen and now also the kind used in soba. For me the soba noodles tasted a bit like the normal thin ramen noodles. This could be because I normally don't eat that much ramen and don't have the ability to distinguish the different flavours that well just out of memory.
The festival itself was given in the garden of Matsumoto castle and is a big attraction. It is 3 days long and the lines to get a bowl of soba are actually pretty long. None the less we also queued up and got us some soba. There are different kinds depending on the region the soba are from. There were stands from the south as well as the north of the Japan, so the entirety of Japan was represented. If you wanted you could go to the festival and eat a different type of soba from a different region every day. At the end a fun festival to see, and also another food to check of my list.
The shougakkou trip!
Shougakkou is Japanese for elementary school. We were asked if we wanted to go to a shougakkou and explain the kids some Dutch words. We would be picked up from our university and taken to the school itself. We were told that there would be about 30 students there so we went with the 5 of us. In the end there were only 6 students there. I'm not sure why, but it was fun none the less.
We let them ask questions and tried to teach them some simple Dutch words. After this we also went outside and even played a Dutch game called "lummelen("Pig in the middle" for the non Dutch speaking people)".
This is it for this post, not a whole more happened as university life has fully started. Till next time!
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