Together with the students of Shinjo’s International
Relations Committee, today we took a bus trip to the seaside town of Shonai
located on the west coast of Japan. Here we visited a candle making store where
we hand-painted our own candle. We then headed to the “Kamo Aquarium” located
on Shonai Beach facing the Sea of Japan. This extraordinary aquarium is world
famous for having the largest number of jellyfish exhibits. On return to
Shinjo, we participated in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
Konnichiwa! While it has been two long days of travel since we farewelled our families in Townsville early on Friday morning, this afternoon we all arrived safe and sound to our home city for the next week, Shinjo in the Yamagata Prefecture. Our morning began with a traditional Japanese breakfast of steamed rice, miso soup, grilled fish, pickled vegetables, and some adventurous foodies tried natto - a pungent, slimy, sticky and stringy fermented soybean dish. We had time to explore Japan’s largest and busiest train terminal – Tokyo Station, where we purchased bento boxes for lunch during our journey to Shinjo. Following a three hour trip on the bullet train from Tokyo station, we were greeted with a very warm and friendly welcome at the Shinjo train station by the students, parents and teachers of Shinjo East High School. With a mix of excitement and nerves, our students met with their host families to begin their homestay experience.
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