2006 World Day

One of the things I was impressed by this country is the number of the adult school where you can learn anything you want at reasonable price, and if what you want to learn is English as a second language, they give you various kinds/levels of classes for free and have open-door policy. One of the reason they can operate that way is the U.S. Government supports them. They want immigrant to learn English to meet vocational demands and let them work as a part of the nations.

I'm attending one of English classes every morning and this class is for people who want to take a TOEFL test and go to university. However, more than half of the students are wives who joined husband's job transfer and most of them are not in a serious vein in learning English. It means, I guess, that they are not going to take a TOEFL. Even so, we are welcomed by the school ... (I hope so :))

Let me come to the point... Today was '2006 World Day', the biggest festival of the year in my ESL school. Everybody brought his/her national food and some students performed a fashion show and a live entertaiment such as their dances and songs♪ I was amazed to see quite a few people had a talent performing in front and a great number of people had their traditional clothes here. When you think of Japan, what kind of song is you think the most suitable? National Anthem? No way!! Maybe, the easiest way to show JAPAN is Bon-dance in Yukata.

Food is a zest to attend the international festival. Doubting if non-Japanese could taste Dashi (soup stock) & Mirin (sweet sake for seasoning), I cooked Shinoda-maki :(
At least the appealance was pretty :)

It was a blast!!